In New York City, immigrants who show up to 26 Federal Plaza for scheduled hearings in immigration court are being arrested by ICE and held in a closed off “detention center” on the 10th floor for days and even weeks in filthy, overcrowded rooms with no beds, no showers, and no access to food, medical care, or legal representation. People are forced to sleep on the floor or metal benches with only a foil blanket.
ICE insists this is a ‘processing center’ not subject to Congressional oversight, but it is in fact a holding cell for immigrants who have been kidnapped from immigration court hearings.
Refuse Fascism led a lunchtime whistle rally on Monday, July 28, to launch No Business As Usual: SHUT DOWN ICE! SHUT DOWN THE WHOLE TRUMP FASCIST REGIME!
Protesters hold a banner displaying images of detained immigrants outside 26 Federal Plaza during a rally against ICE detentions.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
We are going back:
Friday, August 1
12 noon
26 Federal Plaza
The scapegoating and disappearing of immigrants is the battering ram of Trump/MAGA fascism and it is the people who must stop it. Urgently needed: mass noncompliance and nonviolent resistance, preparing for the day that must come soon when millions are in the streets demanding the removal of the Trump fascist regime.
SHUT DOWN ICE! SHUT DOWN THE WHOLE TRUMP FASCIST REGIME!