DWN is looking for a Senior Organizer or Organizing Manager who will help build the power of the Network & our members by providing key support to the development & implementation of campaign strategies and growing DWN’s capacity to support local, regional, & national efforts challenging detention.

Wrote an article for Truthout about how the recent SCOTUS decision and how it and this administration has sought to impose Jim Crow through "colorblind" means smh

Sat, May 16, 11am–3pm 209 Joralemon St, 2nd floor Brooklyn Know Your Rights & ICE Preparedness Training @handsoffnyc.bsky.social * Recognize & respond to ICE * Support impacted families * Build a stronger, more connected community of care across Brooklyn www.mobilize.us/handsoffnyc/...

This evening, as we gathered in virtual community, I reflected on how important it is to remain committed to freeing people from cages. Each release is a miracle. Decarceration is as urgent as ever, and we need new recruits to this cause. It's been an honor to be part of this sacred work.

Law enforcement, immigration advocates weigh in on local agreements with ICE - reporting on 287(g) from the great state of Montana (Explore Big Sky, by Jen Clancey). www.explorebigsky.com/breaking-dow...

My liveblog of @indivisible.org 's #WhatsThePlan meeting with @ezralevin.bsky.social & @leahgreenberg.bsky.social for 4/23/2026. My #WhatsThePlan basics 🧵 is here: bsky.app/profile/doct...

Join @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social in one hour for our weekly chat. @silkys13.bsky.social will stop by to discuss @detentionwatchnetwork.org’s national day of action on Saturday. We hope to see you at 3p ET/12p PT.

"This is about SOLIDARITY. Anyone can fight back." @silkys13.bsky.social of @detentionwatchnetwork.org talking about this weekend of actions against ICE camps on #WhatsThePlan. She's Right. JOIN US.

TOMORROW: @silkys13.bsky.social joins our weekly chat to discuss @detentionwatchnetwork.org’s national day of action on Saturday. Plus, @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social answer your top-ranked questions. RSVP to be part of people-powered politics in real time.

New numbers on this, we crunched: ICE Has Detained 6,200+ Kids in Trump’s Second Term, Up 10x Since Biden Left Office www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/i...

How Ms. Rachel is helping kids get out of ICE detention—one video at a time

We are hiring! Check out www.seirn.org/job-openings for our 2 coordinator positions. Estamos contratando! Visita nuestra pagina para ver las 2 posiciones de coordinadores.

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We cannot stop mass deportations without seriously reckoning with the American obsession with arrests and prosecutions.

For weeks now, I've shared information about HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS protesting ICE REGULARLY. So much so that whole states like Kansas and Texas are rolling out LAWS to sanction schools and laws to criminalize TEENAGERS. Please let's be serious.

Join Survived and Punished virtually on April 28th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm ET to celebrate our collective accomplishments and to mourn our losses over the past 10 years. Register here: survivedpunished10years.eventbrite.com

"By the time DHS publicly disclosed the existence of Mobile Fortify, it already had been used more than 100,000 times since its launch, according to court filings". #facialrecognition www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

FREE LEQAA www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW: As we've seen the raids & ICE surges, everyone has had so many questions. 'what can states do?' 'what can cities do?' 'what can one ask a sheriff, governor, zoning board, to do?!' you sent us a lot of your questions. we just answered 9 of them. i learned a ton myself, i think you will to.

"Alligator Alcatraz" is a major scandal on every level -- corruption, human rights abuses, blatant violations of the law.

@utopia-defer.red and i listened to unbuild walls by @silkys13.bsky.social on our drive to NJ, and ngl i felt a lil emotional hearing about just how hard illinois residents and coalition partners fought against detention centers in their backyard. we can do it too

Really great to be with folks in Tacoma last night talking about immigrant justice and abolition!

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Hundreds of organizers coming to Mn this week. The hardest part to share is we didn’t defeat 🧊. They will spread across the country. But we can share all we’ve done so this multi-pronged resistance can spread around the country.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

In 1988, I was elected as a delegate for Jesse Jackson to the Colorado Democratic Convention. This is, in part, why. He had courage where most others did not. Jackson had some major support, but of course the party leadership stomped on us. Many/most of us never stopped our activism.

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.

"a community convinced that its financial survival depends on locking people up. It’s not a new phenomenon. In this iteration of the classic prison town... "Trump needs these towns, and he needs local officials who are willing—and sometimes eager—to sign deals...."

I watched last night and these are three of the smartest people on the planet from whom I have learned a lot. If you listen, you'll learn too.

Another quick quote: "This [ICE] exists today because of the prison industrial complex and the long history of warehousing Black, brown, Indigenous communities in the United States... there is no abolishing ICE without looking at [police, jails, sheriffs, etc]" @silkys13.bsky.social

"It's about a bordering regime and a system of control, and it's connected to so many agencies. For me, abolish ICE very much fits within an abolish the border framework." @harshawalia.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

ICYMI tonight’s livestream is now available in our public feed Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

LIVE NOW! Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Stream here:

I think on top of the visible trauma and rebuilding, this is a large risk if we are in fact entering into a new phase. Much of ICE’s activity has been jail related for its whole existence and it is built on the idea that there are discardable people nobody has to see.

TONIGHT Death Panel x @haymarketbooks.org present ABOLISH ICE, ABOLISH THE BORDER Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social Silky Shah @silkys13.bsky.social Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social 7pm EST, register free here: www.haymarketbooks.org/events/778-a...

Looking for ways to take action on ICE and keep the pressure up for Palestine? Join tomorrow’s JVP Power Half-Hour to take action in the community together.

here's the link to register for the livestream, trust me you're not going to want to miss it: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

So incredibly honored & humbled to be in conversation with @silkys13.bsky.social & @harshawalia.bsky.social tomorrow night for a @haymarketbooks.org discussion on abolition, fighting "crisis at the border" rhetoric/federal occupation with insurgent care & what this moment demands of us/our movements

We have updated DetentionReports.com with the most recently released data from ICE. Many people have asked that we add a map to the home page. We have added this feature. Click one of the blue icons to proceed to the report of the corresponding detention facility. detentionreports.com

New op-ed in @thehill.com from @detentionwatchnetwork.org’s advocacy director, Setareh Ghandehari “It is unconscionable that our elected leaders would continue to give money to agencies that have been wreaking havoc on communities across the U.S.” thehill.com/opinion/cong...

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

NEW: Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.

‘Our opponent is tricked out with military gear, staying in Hilton hotels and renting Enterprise cars, with technological support from Palantir and Amazon Web Services.’ NEW: Amna A. Akbar writes from South Minneapolis www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond. Thursday at 7 PM ET events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

oh look it’s @jesspish.bsky.social