Emergency! Protest at I.C.E.! Let Our Children Go!

EMERGENCY! PROTEST!
Let Our Children Go!
MONDAY, JUNE 30, 11am-1 pm
I.C.E.
Enforcement and Removal Operations Office
630 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA
that they are being incarcerated and secreted away: no reporters are allowed to interview them, or to take
photographs; the general public is being denied access to them and prevented from inspecting their conditions of
confinement. NO! These children need enjoyable, positive living environments, not mass incarceration and not
deportation!
WE SAY NO MORE! LET OUR CHILDREN GO!
The U.S. has 5% of the worldʼs population but 25% of the worldʼs prison population! More than 60% of those in U.S.
prisons are Black or Latina/o. More than 80,000 people in prison are held in solitary confinement under conditions
that fit the international definition of torture. The incarceration of women has increased by 800% over the last 30
years. Alongside this has risen a massive program of criminally prosecuting undocumented immigrants.
Deportations under the Obama administration have crossed the 2 million mark, resulting in many thousands of
children separated from their parents! We stand in solidarity with the courageous anti-deportation movement and the
demand, “Not 1 More Deportation!”
ICE, the agency responsible for immigration detention within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), now
detains approximately 34,000 immigrants every night and more than 400,000 individuals each year. Immigrants in
detention facilities around the United States are often subjected to punitive and long-term solitary confinement and
denied meaningful avenues of appeal. Since 2005, the immigration detention population has increased by nearly 85
percent. And now, U.S. military installations are incarcerating thousands of refugee children in prison camps!
This must stop—NOW! Not the next generation, not in ten years, not any time off in some promised future that never
seems to come. NOW!
The Stop Mass Incarceration Network is calling for a massive Month of Resistance to Mass Incarceration in October
of this year; a Month that can impact all of society; one that can open the eyes of millions of people to the need to
end this new Jim Crow. In October, 2014, our resistance to mass incarceration must reverberate across the country
and around the world. October, 2014, must be a month that makes clear that thousands and thousands are willing to
stand up and speak out today and to awaken and rally forth millions. It must be the beginning of the end of the mass
incarceration in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) are currently warehousing hundreds and
thousands of children from Guatemala,
Honduras and El Salvador who have, in recent
months, streamed across the Texas-Mexico
border. Once detained, they are being held in
freezing holding cells, nicknamed “hieleras,” or
ice chests. Many thousands of children, some
unaccompanied, and mothers with toddlers are
now in U.S. detention. They lack nutritious
food, sanitary conditions, health care, and
beds. Thousands are being sent to military
bases for so-called “shelter” – but the fact is
they
Make October 2014, A Month Of Resistance To Mass Incarceration,
Police Terror, Repression And The Criminalization Of A Generation!
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pledge
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Contact:
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