Communities Not Cages — Brockton standout
April 25 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Reporting shows that DHS/ICE are actively scouting, purchasing, and planning to convert approximately 23 warehouses nationwide into new immigration detention and processing facilities. These sites are expected to detain between 1,500 and 10,000 people each, signaling a massive expansion of detention capacity and the normalization of large-scale confinement in facilities built for storing things, not imprisoning people.
Some of the people confined in these warehouses might be our neighbors from here in Brockton.
Local action has already forced the cancellation of some of the proposed facilities. Further action is possible.
Although no new facilities have appeared in Massachusetts so far, ICE is already holding people at their Burlington office and at the Plymouth County House of Corrections.
Detention Watch Network is spearheading a National Day of Action on April 25. Come to a Communities Not Cages standout hosted by Brockton Indivisible! Bring flags to wave, and signs showing solidarity with our immigrant neighbors, and efforts to force the federal government to treat detained people humanely.
A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.
