ICE Out of PA — Juntos

Get to know Our ICE Out of Pennsylvania Campaign!

The Biden Administration has consistently failed to dismantle ICE and the immigration imprisonment industry that has historically targeted and abused our community. Despite campaign promises, this administration continues to rely heavily on immigration detention and the number of people in detention increased by 60% in 2021 under President Biden and numbers remain high.

In our state of Pennsylvania, we witnessed detention expansion which often leads to increased enforcement and attacks on our people by ICE, while also incentivizing their caging for profit. This goes against our deepest values.

The immigration detention system as a whole is inherently abusive, unjust, and fatally flawed beyond repair. We call on the Biden administration to take bold action towards ending the expansion of detention in our state, including the Alternatives to Detention Program!

Check out this map of where detention centers are located throughout our state!

Beaver County Jail - USMS IGA
Berks County Residential Center* IGSA
Clinton County Correctional Facility - UGSMS IGA
Erie County Jail - USMS IGA
Lehigh County Jail - USMS IGA
Moshannon Valley Correctional Facility - IGSA Facility
Pike County Correctional Facility - IGSA

Our fight against the immigration carceral industry and its expansion in our state is moved by the following:

People navigating their immigration cases should be able to do so in the community, not behind bars in detention or under surveillance.
If you build it, they will come. The more detention beds we have, the more incentive there is to fill them. More beds create more enforcement.
Livelihoods should not be dependent on the harm inflicted by detention centers. Private prison developers pitch detention centers as economic opportunities but our communities deserve better.
In a global pandemic, the ongoing detention, transfers, and deportation of immigrants is a public health hazard to detainees and surrounding communities.
Black immigrants face disproportionate rates of incarceration and abuse by immigration enforcement. A new mega-detention center in our state would increase the double targeting of Black immigrants by police and immigration enforcement.
Humane detention is not possible, and loved ones in detention are subjugated to regular human rights abuses.

OUR VALUES

Centering Directly Impacted People in Our Organizing
Grounding in Abolitionist Principles
Transformative Justice as the Way Forward
No to Respectability Politics
Centering Environmental Justice
Divest/Invest Framework
System Works as Designed, No to Reform of an Unjust System
Centering Racial Justice

Take a look at our Fight Against Moshannon Valley Detention Center!

Learn more about our work fighting detention in York!

Check out our Voces Libres project highlighting real-life accounts of people who have been previously detained!