The Big Ugly Bill funneled enough money for ICE and Border Patrol to fund their terror for years to come. We have already seen how dangerous this is in communities across the country. Now the administration is trying to use this money to do a massive expansion in detention facilities across the country. They have been buying up properties, and sometimes actually converting warehouses into camps that will hold human beings, often in dangerous and horrifying conditions.
We have a chance to stop this expansion in its tracks, in partnership with experts across the country, by speaking up and demanding our elected officials speak up too. This is already working - and even some Republicans are criticizing the warehouses - from Pennsylvania, to Tennessee, and beyond. Check this map created by Project Saltbox to learn if a warehouse is being proposed near you, and then call on your Senator to oppose any expansions.
Fill out this form right now and we’ll connect you to your Members of Congress. Tell them you want them to publicly oppose any warehouses or detention centers being expanded in your community or anywhere in the country.
The email to your Members of Congress:
Dear Senator/Representative:
I am writing today to ask that you publicly use every tool at your disposal to oppose any proposed expansion of DHS detention facilities in our community and around the country.
We cannot accept these proposed horrifying build outs anywhere - these facilities are well documented as holding human beings in dangerous and horrifying conditions. Such facilities already detain over 70,000 people a year, and new “mega-warehouses” will lead to even more people held in inhumane, dangerous conditions.
Immigrants are important members of our local communities, and we cannot accept an inhumane facility like this in our community or anywhere in the United States.
I expect you to use your power as my elected official to reject localized expansions of Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda.