An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Release All Immigration Detainees From For-Profit Detention Facilities Now

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Release every person currently held in for-profit immigration detention facilities. These are not abstract policy disagreements — people, including children, are being held without adequate due process while private corporations profit from their confinement. That is not law enforcement. That is a business model built on human suffering. The 13th Amendment's prisoner labor exemption already allows corporations like UNICOR to pay incarcerated workers as little as $0.23 an hour. Extending that logic to immigration detention — where people have committed no crime — is a constitutional and moral catastrophe. Facilities like Delaney Hall are operating in the shadows, with minimal press coverage and no meaningful congressional oversight. Your silence is a choice. End these contracts, release the detainees, and use your office to demand full transparency into every facility currently holding people under ICE authority.

First sent on September 13 by States ask for townhalls

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