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Stop ICE warehouse detention - National Day of Action, April 25th host an action, image with protest signs that read: no ice warehouse, not here not anywhere, shut down detention centers
ICE wants to cage up to 10,000 people in industrial warehouses — spaces built for goods, not human beings. On April 25, we fight back! Host a #CommunitiesNotCages action in your city: bit.ly/nowarehousea...
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Late last night, Republicans caved and let the Senate pass a bill that funds all of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol (as Democrats long demanded). This is what’s possible when Democrats unify and refuse to bend to the regime's demands. We are now watching the House to see if this gets done.
UPDATE: We won.
Senate Republicans folded and approved DHS funding excluding additional ICE and CBP funding.
Our pressure just helped deny ICE and CBP more than $17 billion.
@democrats.senate.gov held the line! Now onto the House…
Defund ICE. Fund Care. We want #ICEOutOfOurCommunities NOW!
WATCH: Learn about ICE warehouse expansion and how to fight back from our recent movement call webinar. Warehouse detention is part of the Trump administration’s plan to expand detention capacity to more than 100,000 people at any given time. 🔗Tell Congress no ICE warehouses! bit.ly/NOicewarehouses
After a five-week shutdown, lawmakers have proposed a plan that will continue to pour billions into CBP & ICE with no policy changes to prevent future abuses. They need to keep feeling that pressure! No money for ICE, and ICE out of our airports and off our streets!
🔗Act now: bit.ly/noicefunding2
It took less than 24 hours before ICE agents at airports violently brutalized a woman in front of her daughter.
Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions and get ICE out of our communities. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.
Trump has ordered ICE agents to be deployed to over a dozen airports across the United States, purportedly to help handle TSA duties amid a continued DHS shutdown.
No one is safe when ICE is present – whether in airports, on the streets or in one of the agency’s more than 200 abuse-ridden detention facilities. We demand members of Congress act now to cut ICE funding, get ICE out of airports & communities nationwide, & shut down ICE detention centers for good!
Dolores Huerta and DWN member, Dolores Huerta Foundation, have been leading the fight to end detention in California’s Central Valley. 🧡
We stand in solidarity with Dolores Huerta, Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, and all survivors of sexual violence.
Ending immigration detention is deeply connected to ending sexual violence: by design, immigration detention facilitates sexual violence.
We urge communities to continue fighting vigorously against detention warehouses and all other detention facilities. The admin’s cruel mass detention and deportation agenda is dire and must be stopped, regardless of who’s at the helm of DHS.
ICE is detaining more than 70,000 people in its existing network of detention centers and has stated plans to expand its capacity to be able to detain more than 100,000 people. Looming large is the imminent threat of warehouses to detain up to 92,600 people across the country. bit.ly/NOicewarehouses
ICE kills. Shockingly, 12 people have died in ICE custody this calendar year — more than double the number of deaths at this point last year, and 43 deaths total under this administration.
We are glad to see Noem gone, and yet the musical chairs over who holds leadership within the administration, a trademark of Trump’s first term, does not solve the systemic issues with ICE. The evidence against ICE is indisputable. www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...
Graphic with blue background: Title reads: "Movement Call: Resistance to Warehouses" Join us for an overview of the federal government’s plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers. The call will cover locations that have been purchased, facilities currently under consideration, and the potential impacts on surrounding communities. We will also share strategies that local advocates, community members, and public officials are using to push back against these projects and ways to can take action. Date: 03/18/2026 Time: 4pm PT Register: bit.ly/318detentionwarehousecall
📆 Join DWN and partners on March 18th at 4pm PT / 7pm ET for an overview of the federal government’s plans to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers. We will share strategies communities are using to push back against these projects!
🔗 bit.ly/318detentionwarehousescall
“Local communities are making it clear from coast to coast,” said @detentionwatchnetwork.org 's Stacy Suh, “they don’t want detention centers of any kind, and they will fight tooth and nail to block ICE and ensure all people are protected and safe.” @bdolinar.bsky.social
In this critical moment, it is more important than ever to keep the pressure on and ensure our elected officials hear from us. They must understand how vital it is to hold the line and move forward with our demand for major cuts to funding for ICE and Border Patrol: www.youtube.com/watch?v=juTZ...
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Breaking — Planned ICE concentration camp near Nashville canceled!!!!
Building an unprecedented, 21st-century surveillance apparatus has been central to DHS’ mission since Congress created the agency after the 9/11 attacks — when it promptly began surveilling Muslim communities across the country.
Let's review a brief history of the domestic surveillance empire.
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People are uniting together, uplifting their shared values to welcome people and keep everyone safe, calling on businesses to take a stand, and demanding ICE out of their communities.
🔗Learn how to fight back against detention warehouses in our new warehouse toolkit: bit.ly/noicewarehouse
Confining people in large-scale, makeshift detention warehouses will exponentially increase the likelihood for abuse and death in ICE custody, as ICE cuts people off from their loved ones and support networks, and subjects them to conditions that are meant for storing products, never people.
The threat of detention warehouses harkens back to one of our most shameful periods as a nation, when warehouses were used for Japanese American incarceration in the 1940s, which caused immense suffering and generational trauma. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
Local communities are courageously taking on ICE to fight detention warehouses from entering their towns and winning! People are uniting together, uplifting their shared values to welcome people & keep everyone safe, calling on businesses to take a stand, & demanding ICE out of their communities.
Tonight! Register here: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
“The violence we see today is a direct consequence of the $170 billion that Congress handed to Homeland Security in last year’s reconciliation bill, fueling the administration’s mass detention & deportation agenda at an unprecedented scale, “ said Setareh, from DWN in an op-ed for the @thehill.com
Leqaa Kordia, a New Jersey woman who was detained by federal immigration agents during a 2024 protest at Columbia University, suffered a seizure after she fell and hit her head in a Texas detention center, her lawyers and federal officials said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4asLPg1