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Causes: Civil Rights
Mission: Freedom for Immigrants is devoted to abolishing immigration detention, while ending the isolation of people currently suffering in this profit-driven system. We monitor the human rights abuses faced by immigrants detained by ICE through a national hotline and network of volunteer detention visitors, while also modeling a community-based alternative to detention that welcomes immigrants into the social fabric of the United States. Through these windows into the system, we gather data and stories to combat injustice at the individual level and push systemic change.
Target demographics: We monitor and report the human rights abuses experienced by immigrants in detention facilities across the United States
Geographic areas served: We work in immigration detention facilities across the United States
Programs: Monitoring & Investigations, National Visitation Network, Policy & Advocacy, Community-Based Alternatives to Detention