From the Detention Watch Network (https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/):
ICE is seeking a special increase in funding for immigrant detention.
ICE’s budget for immigration detention and enforcement has jumped by almost a billion dollars in the last two years through a combination of reckless spending and secretive transfers of money. And now they’re at it again, trying to get a special increase in funding for immigration detention in the short-term funding bill.
It is expected to be passed by the end of September. ICE is manipulating Congress to fund their terror.
This is a major threat to immigrant communities across the country.
There is no question that this money causes tremendous harm. Increased funding for ICE detention means ICE will have the capacity to detain and deport more people from our communities. Currently, 45,000 immigrants are detained under ICE custody every day where abuse, medical neglect and terrible conditions are rampant. ICE will use its newly inflated budget and bed numbers to start negotiations for the final 2019 spending bill- further growing their hate-fueled detention and deportation machine.
LA RED is part of the #DefundHate coalition made up of organizations that are committed to fighting mass detention and deportation by working to stop the flow of money to ICE & CBP.
Take action and urge your Members of Congress to #DefundHate:
Sign the #DefundHate coalition petition today at https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/ice-is-manipulating-congress telling Congress that they should be cutting funding for ICE, not expanding it.
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