The CA Assembly just PASSED AB 1537, The No Side Jobs for ICE Act, by Asm. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social! This bill will ensure local police and sheriffs can’t “moonlight” as deportation agents. THANK YOU to Asm. Bryan, coauthors, all members who voted yes, and supporters. Now, on to the Senate!

New reports reveal the federal gov't is pressuring Minnesota officials to expand local jail cooperation ICE in exchange for withdrawing forces, to which we say - HELL NO. We must leave no one behind in our fight for justice and freedom. Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

"Make no mistake: ICE’s terror is anything but rogue. The agency is operating exactly as intended and as it has for decades, only now with a record-high level of resources and unfettered power." Our statement on the deaths of Keith Porter and Renee Good: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

Some of the hardest convos you’ll ever have with family and loved ones will be about topics like ICE and deportations. Just in time for the holidays, check out our new guide, inspired by @prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social's essay on the practice of listening.

We're honored to be alongside you in this fight. To our supporters who have risen to the challenges of this past year -- thank you.

Our immigration system is based on criminalization & punishment, and so called third country deportations are just one way Trump is scaling this system to even harsher extremes. We spoke w/ @nymag.com about how double punishment works. Read the story by @tanvi.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...

We’re not going to sugarcoat it: Our fight for collective liberation takes immense resources. Now more than ever — as we’re up against a record-high number of people in ICE detention — our ability to respond depends on your support. Donate: freedomforimmigrants.app.neoncrm.com/forms/giving...

Officials at the privately-run Farmville Detention Center in VA are retaliating against individuals for protesting rotten and inedible food. Read accounts from the inside in our joint statement ⬇️ #ShutDownFarmville #AbolishICE #AbolishDetention www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

ICE is callously jeopardizing the health and safety of pregnant people in detention, denying critical prenatal care in already horrific conditions. As FFI Organizing Director Amanda Díaz told @theintercept.com, even basic medical care is hard to come by. theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

We mourn the loss of Huabing Xie and extend our deepest sympathies to his loved ones. Shockingly, there have been at least 20 deaths in ICE custody since Trump’s inauguration, a record number of deaths within a calendar year. www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

ICE is subjecting a growing number of our community members to solitary confinement — a known weapon of psychological torture — inside secretive immigration detention centers. Read: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/09/16/t...

🚨🚨 In the roughly two weeks since the California City Correctional Facility secretly opened as an immigration detention center without proper permits, roughly 500 people are already detained in dangerous conditions. Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

“Immigration detention functions as an expansion of America’s racist prison system and is inherently anti-Black," says FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández in a new statement responding to the Trump admin's use of the infamous Angola prison for ICE. www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

More ICE ankle shackling = more harm, more enforcement. Not freedom. “It’s designed to turn their own communities and homes into digital cages,” said Laura Rivera of @justfutureslaw.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

Is your loved one lost in immigration detention? See our full toolkit here: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/toolkit-lost... ¿Su ser querido se perdió en un centro de detención migratoria? Vea nuestro kit de herramientas completo aquí: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/instructivo-...

Our executive director Laura Hernández recently spoke with @prismreports.org for a new feature on our Project Keep Away initiative! We're empowering our community to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within as we continue to fight against mass criminalization. prismreports.org/2025/07/17/h...

We’re #hiring a Communications Coordinator! Freedom for Immigrants is searching for a passionate advocate with first-hand knowledge of the immigration and/or incarceration systems to join our team. Learn more and apply: static1.squarespace.com/static/5a330...

💥 Introducing Project Keep Away, our new initiative that empowers communities to fight the prison-to-ICE pipeline from within! ⛓️ Learn more: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/project-keep...

📞 Calling all volunteers, organizers, and freedom fighters! Want to support the fight to abolish immigration detention? Become a hotline volunteer! Hotline volunteers further our mission of creating a world without cages by providing critical support & solidarity to people inside ICE detention.

Amid increasing threats to democracy and rights around the globe, HRW is featuring activists who are fighting for human rights. Laura Hernandez is the Executive Director of @migrantfreedom.bsky.social, where she fights tirelessly for immigrant rights in the US.

Trump’s anti-immigration bill is a devastating assault on our livelihoods. This monstrous bill will drastically expand the immigration detention system to an unprecedented scale, resulting in immeasurable harm to hundreds of thousands. Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

The Senate just voted to expand the immigration detention budget by 13 fold, which would fuel detention to levels of horror never before seen and undoubtedly lead to more deaths. Our full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news-and-upd...

A damning, must-read investigation by @wired.com examines the brutal and deadly medical abuse imposed by the government against our neighbors and loved ones inside immigration detention. Read here: www.wired.com/story/ice-de...

Trump has paid the president of El Salvador over $5 million to disappear U.S. migrants to the Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT), known for abysmal conditions and abuses. By labeling certain migrants as terrorists, Trump continues to brutalize immigrants. #DisappearedInAmerica #AbductedByTrump

Immigration detention is a machine of mass state violence, often carried out by private detention corporations who pocket billions of dollars. As we told The Post, horrific incidents such as this are the norm — and only a fraction are reported. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Rumeysa Ozturk is free! "Please don't forget about all the wonderful women in the immigration detention system. I was so tired of witnessing cries and pain that can all be preventable," said Ozturk. www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

Ximena Arias-Cristobal is facing deportation after police pulled over the wrong person. All charges have been dropped, but Ximena is still detained and at risk of deportation despite coming to Georgia at just 4 years old. ICE has no place in our communities. www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...

The arrest of Mayor Baraka is an escalation from ICE. New Jersey passed a state law prohibiting immigration detention centers. Despite the will of the voters, ICE has tried every avenue to expand detention in the state.

Communities in NJ are making the demand clear: shut Delaney Hall down! We commend Mayor Baraka for joining the people of NJ to reject Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. DWN's statement w/ NJ groups leading local organizing towards #CommunitiesNotCages: www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/pressroom/re...

ICE has long weaponized transfers of people in its custody as a harsh form of retaliation, torture, and labor trafficking. A new investigation by @bloomberg.com reveals the Trump admin is increasing its rate of out-of-state transfers: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

We mourn the lives of those needlessly taken too soon by the deadly immigration detention system 🕯️

ICE detention centers are inherently cruel and inhumane, and new reporting from @washingtonpost.com describes how the government’s failure to provide basic necessities to those in ICE custody is exacerbated by the rising number of people in detention.

💥 Last Thursday, FFI helped coordinate actions in LA and DC for the Communities Not Cages National Day of Action! All across the country, communities demonstrated the power of collective action and solidarity. We will not back down until we are all free.

📢📢 Communities across the country are coming together today to say NO to more detention, abductions, deportations, and terrorizing of our people. We are the moral consciousness of our time. Our statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news/day-of-... #CommunitiesNotCages #NoRaids #NoDeportations

We won’t be fooled: The government’s use of Guantánamo Bay is a manifestation of the racism at the heart of our outdated immigration system. Our ED Laura Hernández just published a new Letter to the Editor in the Miami Herald to set the record straight. www.miamiherald.com/opinion/lett...

The Trump admin is disappearing activists to isolated detention sites and subjecting people to horrific abuses, using these long-standing ICE tactics to ramp up its crackdown on our communities and free speech. We spoke with CNN about ICE’s cruel practices ⬇️ www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/u...

Please join me in congratulating Laura Hernandez as a #WomanofDistinction for her Advocacy work. Laura is the Executive Director of @migrantfreedom.bsky.social, a national nonprofit organization that supports those navigating the immigration detention system. #SD34 thanks her!

⚡We've been lighting up the phone lines all week at the governor's office, calling on @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social to pardon FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández to #KeepLauraHome! Help us keep up the momentum: bit.ly/KeepLauraHome Actions take just minutes to complete! #FamiliesBelongTogether

📢 CALL TO ACTION! 🚨 California Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to “Trump proof” the state — now we’re holding him to his word. Join us in calling on @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to pardon FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández to #KeepLauraHome! Toolkit: bit.ly/KeepLauraHome

⚡ Don't forget! Join our phone zap tomorrow as we rally support to #KeepLauraHome! ⚡ bsky.app/profile/did:...

📢 CALL TO ACTION! 🚨 CA Governor Gavin Newsom vowed to “Trump proof” the state — now we’re holding him to his word. Join our virtual phone zap next Tuesday at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET, as we call on Governor Newsom to pardon FFI Executive Director Laura Hernández! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Enforced disappearances and retaliatory transfers of individuals thousands of miles away from their families and attorneys have long been systemic features — not bugs — of the dehumanizing detention system," said Laura Hernandez, Executive Director of FFI. www.forbes.com/sites/andyjs...

The Trump regime illegally abducted Mahmoud Khalil, an outspoken Palestinian rights activist at Columbia, and is currently detaining him hundreds of miles away from his loved ones in a remote Louisiana ICE lock up. Read our full statement: www.freedomforimmigrants.org/news/ffi-dem...

Hello, BlueSky! We’re Freedom for Immigrants, and we’re excited to be here. About us: We're abolitionists working to end immigration incarceration by organizing with and following the leadership of detained immigrants. Connect with us and hit follow to stay updated! #AbolishDetention #FreeThemAll