Free Them All Coalition
San Francisco, CA
There are 38,000 undocumented immigrants in detention right now across the country.
38,000 people trapped in deadly close quarters without access to medical care.
38,000 people in the exact conditions that allow COVID-19 to spread.
Right now in California, well over 6,000 immigrants are being held in detention centers without adequate health and sanitation measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Most of these centers are run by private corporations, and some are county and municipal jails. In the past weeks we've seen as the immigrants inside have taken to sit-ins and hunger strikes to sound the alarm as public health and safety concerns have been confirmed: dozens of people inside ICE detention centers have tested positive for COVID-19, and it's clear that many more cases are being covered up or not tested. Yet conditions remain unchanged.
This is why activists, immigrants, doctors, lawyers and lawmakers are coming together to form the Free Them All coalition. We are extremely concerned about a deadly catastrophe that is brewing and are calling on Governor Newsom to use his emergency powers to release all immigrants from these detention centers before COVID-19 turns them into death camps.
38,000 people trapped in deadly close quarters without access to medical care.
38,000 people in the exact conditions that allow COVID-19 to spread.
Right now in California, well over 6,000 immigrants are being held in detention centers without adequate health and sanitation measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Most of these centers are run by private corporations, and some are county and municipal jails. In the past weeks we've seen as the immigrants inside have taken to sit-ins and hunger strikes to sound the alarm as public health and safety concerns have been confirmed: dozens of people inside ICE detention centers have tested positive for COVID-19, and it's clear that many more cases are being covered up or not tested. Yet conditions remain unchanged.
This is why activists, immigrants, doctors, lawyers and lawmakers are coming together to form the Free Them All coalition. We are extremely concerned about a deadly catastrophe that is brewing and are calling on Governor Newsom to use his emergency powers to release all immigrants from these detention centers before COVID-19 turns them into death camps.
During a state of emergency, California law provides the Governor with the authority to #FreeThemAll. What is currently lacking from Governor Newsom is the political will to use that authority.