News and Announcements

Detention Watch Network Expose and Close Reports on 10 of the Worst Immigrant Prisons in the US

November 15, 2012
Everyday we talk to people who are being held in deplorable conditions in our nation's immigrant detention centers. We helped compile many of these testimonies for the Explose and Close reports. Detention Watch Network has coordinated the release of ten "Expose and Close" reports which detail the acute and chronic human right violations occurring in immigration detention in the United States today.
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For Immediate Release: WELLS FARGO DUMPS PRIVATE PRISON STOCK

October 25, 2012
Families for Freedom is proud to be part of the national Prison Divestment Campaign that organized for Wells Fargo to dump their prison stock. Today it was announce that Wells Fargo just divested from GEO group, the nations largest private prison company, that profits off of the misery of immigrants and their families. Hasta la Victoria!!!!
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The Penalty is Exile: Prison Radio Project about SCOMM

August 13, 2012
“The Penalty is Exile,” is a special episode of " The Prison Radio Project" which airs on WGXC Community Radio Station in Hudson, NY. It features interviews with Families for Freedom and many of our allies and explores the history and current reality of immigration enforcement -- 400,000 immigrants are deported a year.
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Media Roundup of Insecure Communities Detention & Deportation Report

July 29, 2012
On July 23rd Families for Freedom, Immigrant Defense Project, and New York University School of Law Immigrant Rights Clinic released the report: Insecure Communities, Devastated Families: New Data on Immigrant Detention and Deportation Practices in New York City. In the wake of growing deportation programs such as the recently-activated “Secure Communities” initiative, this new report sheds light on the precise ways in which current detention and deportation practices are wreaking havoc on New York City immigrants and their communities. The deportation system is devastating families by not only threatening to exile their loved ones, but also often forcing immigrants to fight their cases for years while locked up in far-away immigration jails. To view some of the articles and videos that came out about the report click links
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S-Comm and Stop and Frisk: A Threat to Society, A Letter from ED Abraham Paulos

June 12, 2012
The activation of Secure Communities (S-Comm) last month basically put New York City in the same category as Arizona, whose recent law, SB 1070, is regarded as the most draconian immigration law in the country. That is because in New York City, S-Comm is combined with the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) policy of Stop and Frisk. While NYC police officers cannot ask us our immigration status, they don’t have to; a quick trip to the precinct can give them that information. Today, the police precincts are virtual immigration checkpoints, driving us further into the shadows of a police state.
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I, Too, Sing America: Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies visits FFF

June 08, 2012
As part of their History studies, a group of twenty 11th grade students at the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies visited Families for Freedom. We helped break down the “Crimmigation system” which is the crossroads of the Criminal and Immigration system and explain the work we do. Our conversations focused on these questions: How do people maintain their dignity within an oppressive society? What are the most effective and humane ways to make positive change in our communities, society and world at large?
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