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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 19h

ICE purposefully obscures the truth — full stop. For the nearly 60,000 people in ICE custody, every measure of oversight is crucial because lives are in jeopardy. This decision once again illustrates how no one is safe in ICE custody. #communitiesnotcages

ICE closes detention oversight group in shutdown despite surge in detainees

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 21h

We’re enraged and heartbroken by the rising deaths in ICE custody. Huabing Xie, from China, died Sept 29 after being held at Imperial Regional Detention Facility. At least 20 people have died since Trump took office as he moves to triple ICE detention by the end of this year. #CommunitiesNotCages

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 1d

ICYMI: Join us this Tuesday! 💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 6d

💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. The transfers of immigrants to offshore detention in El Salvador brought increased awareness of the torture and abuse in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Now what? 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 6d

💻WEBINAR 10/7: From El Salvador to the US: Resisting mass detention and right-wing authoritarianism. The transfers of immigrants to offshore detention in El Salvador brought increased awareness of the torture and abuse in El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison. Now what? 🔗REGISTER: bit.ly/cncoct7

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Mahesh Somashekhar @msoma.bsky.social · 7d

On Tuesday, Oct. 7, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is hosting a virtual event to help folks in the U.S. learn how movements in El Salvador are fighting against authoritarianism and dictatorship. Registration link and more details can be found here: detentionwatchnetwork.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/d...

El Salvador & US: People's Resistance | Resistencia del Pueblo

El Salvador: Resistance to fascism, detention & US imperialism

detentionwatchnetwork.app.neoncrm.com

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 7d

📢 Take action! 📢 As the House and Senate continue to work on 12 spending bills for fiscal year 2026 both chambers are planning to increase funding for ICE adding onto the $45 billion ICE just received in the reconciliation bill.

NO MORE money for Trump's cruel plans.
Act now: bit.ly/noicefunding

Urge Senators and Members to Reject ICE Funding and Invest in Communities

We need you to take action NOW! On September 30th, the House and Senate will be reaching their government funding deadline. Given the short timeline and disagreements between the two political parties...

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 8d

In a time of increasing repression, the fight for justice, peace, and dignity for all is crucial.

On October 9, @detentionwatchnetwork.org is excited to accept the @ips-dc.org Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award.

🎟️ Join us in celebrating! Get tickets now: ips-dc.org/event/lm49/

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 18d

📘BOOK LAUNCH📘

Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org

🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...

Immigration Detention Panel

The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most voc…

peoplesbooktakoma.com

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 21d

📘BOOK LAUNCH📘

Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org

🗓️Fri, Oct 3
⏰6 pm
📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com
peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...

Immigration Detention Panel

The United States has the most extensive immigration detention system in the world, expanding from a capacity of less than 5,000 detainees per day in the 1980s to 52,000 by 2019. While the most voc…

peoplesbooktakoma.com

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 21d

The mass detention and deportation agenda is driven by a racist compulsion, as the administration will stop at nothing to dehumanize and vilify immigrants, including jeopardizing the safety and well-being of everyone in this country.

Support Silverio's family in their time of grief. ⬇️

Donate to Silverio Villegas González, organized by Lily Rivera

Honoring the Life of Silverio Villegas Gonzales It is cruel what ICE agents did to him short… Lily Rivera needs your support for Silverio Villegas González

www.gofundme.com

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 21d

Trump’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda has reached a previously unimaginable deadly scope and scale. The human toll and cost to all Americans continues to be shocking.

Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez: the third casualty of Trump’s mass deportation operation : Peoples Dispatch

Outrage grows as ICE raids under “Operation Midway Blitz” turn violent, highlighting deadly pattern in immigration enforcement

peoplesdispatch.org

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 26d

Trump has proliferated ICE operations into other agencies, including the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Defense, and expanded partnerships with sheriffs and jails. People are funneled into ICE’s private prisons, jails, state/federal prisons & makeshift camps often sowing fear and confusion.

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 26d

“We have the largest jail infrastructure in the world, and it’s an easy thing for ICE to fall back on,” said @silkys13.bsky.social, the executive director of @detentionwatchnetwork.org, to @nytimes.com. “The jail is a really central component of the deportation machine.”

Local Sheriffs Are Turning Their Jails Into ICE Detention Centers

Jails play a growing role in immigrant detention, housing thousands of people who have never been convicted of a crime.

www.nytimes.com

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 26d

EDIT: ICE had detained Mr. Batrez Vargas at Central Arizona Correctional Complex in Florence, AZ and has reported that the cause of his death is currently *unknown*.

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 28d

Our hearts go out to the loved ones of Mr. Batrez Vargas, affectionately known as "Lenchito”, a beloved son, brother, and friend. @florenceproject.bsky.social

🔗Support Lenchito's family in their time of grief bit.ly/Lenchito

Donate to Support Lenchito's Family in Their Time of Grief, organized by Amber Vargas

With heavy hearts, we honor the life of Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas kn… Amber Vargas needs your support for Support Lenchito's Family in Their Time of Grief

bit.ly

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 28d

At least 14 people have now died in ICE custody since Trump took office in January. At least 26 people died in ICE custody during the Biden administration. It’s alarming that within the first eight months of the Trump admin there were more than half the number of deaths that occurred under Biden.

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 28d

According to Transnational Records Clearing House (TRAC) the Central Arizona Correctional Complex exceeded its capacity in 2025, at times detaining over 100 people beyond capacity. ICE is a deadly agency, jailing immigrants in deplorable conditions across the country. tracreports.org/reports/762/

ICE Contractual Capacity and Number Detained: Overcapacity vs. Overcrowding

tracreports.org

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 28d

Another life lost to immigration detention: Last month Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, died while in ICE custody on August 31 in AZ. ICE had detained Mr. Batrez Vargas at Central Arizona Correctional Complex in Florence, AZ and has reported that the cause of his death is currently known.

Cruel and Deadly: Another Life Tragically Lost to Immigration Detention

Florence, AZ — The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project and Detention Watch Network are mourning the tragic loss of Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, affectionately known as "Lenchito,” a be...

www.detentionwatchnetwork.org

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 29d

In ONE MONTH, join us in celebrating resistance to repression at the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards!

Celebrate this year's awardees:
🏅 @detentionwatchnetwork.org & Jeanette Vizguerra
🏅 The National Coordinating Roundtable of Organizations of Retirees and Pensioners of Argentina

🎟️ TICKETS:

Letelier-Moffitt Awards 2025 - Institute for Policy Studies

Join us this year as IPS honors two outstanding champions of human rights and celebrates the work we do along with our allies to advance justice, peace, and dignity for all.

ips-dc.org

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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · Sep 8

Yes! Thank you for uplifting.

Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · Sep 4

📣We need all hands-on deck to protect our communities!

Calling all content creators who want to use their platform to support and uplift immigrant communities, join us! 9/18 at 3pm PT @the-ilrc.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social @immjustice.bsky.social

🔗RSVP here: Bit.ly/content-creator-meetup

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · Sep 4

The SECOND trend, is that prisons that were closed because of criminal justice reforms, are now being raised from the dead. Some of these "zombie" facilities were closed because of long-standing problems, but now they will hold immigrants www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/29/m... (8/)

‘Zombie Prisons’: How ICE Detention Is Raising Troubling Facilities From the Dead

ICE needs more detention space, and it’s faster to open old facilities than to build new ones.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · Sep 4

FIRST: State governments are getting involved in running their own detention facilities. They've never been involved in detention on this scale before. Many places, like Louisiana, are using space in their state prisons for this detention.... (2/)

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/22/f...

What Alligator Alcatraz Portends for State Prisons

Plans to use Indiana’s “Speedway Slammer,” Louisiana’s Angola and other state prisons to house ICE detainees raise problematic questions, attorneys say.

www.themarshallproject.org

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's now official, ICE is opening a detention center in the notorious Angola prison. This is part of a larger trend: The U.S. carceral system becoming increasingly entangled with immigration detention. Here are two big things I am tracking about this trend, and why it matters.... (1/)

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