WASHINGTON, D.C. — As advocates across the country take to the streets today for the Communities Not Cages National Day of Action, anchored by Detention Watch Network, Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) joins those detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in demanding the immediate release of community members and an end to the Trump administration's reckless expansion of mass detention and deportations. Nearly 48,000 people are now in ICE custody, the highest number since 2019. 

NEW YORK — Following Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrest and detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and legal permanent resident at Columbia, Freedom for Immigrants executive director Laura Hernández released the following statement.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to President Trump’s anticipated signing of the Laken Riley Act into law today, and a slew of recent executive orders that seek to scapegoat, detain, and deport immigrants through extremist criminalizing policies and immigration detention expansion, Laura Hernández, executive director of Freedom for Immigrants, issued the following statement. 

LOS ANGELES — In response to the private prison industry’s celebration of the incoming Trump administration, Laura Hernández, executive director at Freedom for Immigrants, released the following statement: 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Freedom for Immigrants executive director Laura Hernández released the following statement in response to the reelection of Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put into place this week its final rule of the asylum ban initially rolled out in June, toughening the asylum restrictions and making them harder to be lifted.The following statement is from Laura Hernández, executive director of Freedom for Immigrants.

LOS ANGELES — Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) today announced its new mission statement and theory of change, setting forth a new direction for the abolitionist organization centered around its plans to organize alongside community members detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), follow the direction of directly impacted leaders, and more meaningfully support the movement for Black liberation as the group pursues intersectional strategies to tackle the immigration enforcement and criminal prison systems as one. 

LOS ANGELES — Freedom for Immigrants (FFI) began its chrysalis period today, pausing much of its external work in order to develop its renewed vision, theory of change and strategic plan to abolish immigrant detention nationwide. The chrysalis will last until April. 

PINE PRAIRIE, LA — The Southeast Dignity Not Detention (SDND) coalition, a group of local and national organizations committed to immigrants’ rights, today applauds the impending closure of the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center (Pine Prairie), a remote immigrant detention center in Louisiana with a long history of human rights abuses and inhumane conditions. The coalition is also calling on the Biden administration to immediately release the more than 100 community members who have been cruelly transferred to Winn Correctional Center (Winn), another privately-run, understaffed, and long-troubled immigration detention center in Louisiana.