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We call on policy makers and elected officials to take immediate and dramatic steps toward ending immigration detention. Here are 5 reasons why:
The current detention system is historically anomalous, the result of the same anti-black, anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric that built systems of mass incarceration.
You can see the exponential growth of the immigration detention system over the last few decades:
Building community safety for all of us means moving away from policies of control, detentions and deportations.
Immigrants should be permitted to live in their homes and communities during case proceedings, with community-based case management available when needed.
Detention kills: Corruption, abuse, and systemic racism are endemic to ICE’s detention system.
Johannes is one of NIJC’s many clients who have had their lives disrupted by needless ICE detention, when he spent almost a year incarcerated while waiting for his green card
The exponential growth of the immigration detention system is largely driven by profit, not sound policy.
Lobbying dollars spent by companies like GEO Group, CoreCivic, and ICA closely mirror the growth in the number of people incarcerated
You can read more about these five reasons, and how immigrant detention harms individuals and communities, by reading the full report below: https://immigrantjustice.org/research-items/policy-brief-5-reasons-end-immigrant-detention
