Join our national organizing call on June 8th to get ready to go to the ICE detention center nearest you on June 27th for a nationwide protest in support of immigrants in detention!
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The whole world has heard the cries of the Delaney Hall hunger strikers – immigrants are not passive victims, but the leading force changing the situation right before us. Immigrants detained in at least 4 detention centers are on active hunger strike (Delaney Hall, NJ; Torrance County, NM; Prairieland, TX; Adelanto, CA). Last month, immigrants kidnapped and held at Moshanna Valley Processing Center, PA and North Lake Processing Center, MI also went on hunger strike, with protests following. And these are only the ones that started in the past two months. Resistance is spreading and led by immigrants being kept in death camps around the country, who are demanding the full closure of all ICE detention centers. This is the direction the fight against ICE needs to go.
Dare to Struggle has been out in the streets talking to people who see this spreading and want to know what to do about it from the outside. Since ICE’s brutal murders of protestors in Minneapolis in January, our enemy has dialed down their takeover of cities and tactics of abduction, brutality, and murder in open air. But the torture of people in death camps persists. Our plan is to show up to every detention center we can around the country in full force on June 27th. Imagine, not 50 people, but 2000 people in front of every death camp – a tiny fraction of the people who show up to meaningless No Kings parades – the pigs would not be able to carry out their operations as usual. By the time the strike ends, we don’t want people to call it and go home. We want to keep spreading resistance.
At Delaney Hall since May 22nd, protestors have relentlessly held a militant front against federal immigration agents. Despite being pepper sprayed, tear gassed, beaten, and detained, protestors have demonstrated courage and continued to support those on the inside risking it all.
On Friday May 29th, Governor Mikie Sherrill sent the New Jersey State Police to Delaney Hall to clear protestors. They showed up in riot gear, mounted horses, and deployed more tear gas in one night than ICE agents had all week. This was all done “to protect public safety, and avoid escalation from ICE,” a bold-faced lie obvious to anyone who has seen the scenes of the Governor’s deployment.
While Governor Mikie Sherrill claims to be “pushing to see Delaney Hall closed,” she and other Democrats are actually pushing to stop the only mass resistance capable of forcing the hall to close. She even set up a “peaceful protest zone” away from the detention center, a condescending and unconstitutional maneuver meant to keep the facility running as usual and have the NJ State Police take over brutalizing protestors.
We must confront these lying Democrats for their role running the deportation machine. Before ICE there was INS and before GEO group there were other contractors. They’re trying to point fingers at Republicans and these separate entities, when what we’re fighting is the entire system that thrives off the death and torture of immigrants. Democrats in power have real leverage in these situations but refuse to use it. In some blue states, they could just order bulldozers to take down the detention centers and arrest the agents operating them. In New Mexico, for example, these detention centers are operating illegally.
They will continue to kill and kidnap unless they start to face consequences for inflicting terror. But a mass movement won’t fall from the sky—we need to make it happen. We need to be the crisis that stops this.
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