rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/fight-to-end-ices-inhuman-treatment-of-immigrants?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-fight-to-end-ices-inhuman-treatment-of-immigrants' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> National Campaign for Justice https://actionnetwork.org/groups/just-strategy https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg Pope Leo XIV has drawn a moral line that no politician can ignore. He condemned the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, saying that cruelty toward those seeking refuge cannot be reconciled with any claim to being “pro-life.” The White House responded with denial. But denial cannot erase the evidence of what ICE has become. Over the past year, twelve people have died in ICE custody. Many suffered from untreated medical conditions or neglect that advocates and doctors had warned about for years. The use of solitary confinement has skyrocketed, trapping detainees in tiny cells for weeks or months at a time, often with no sunlight or human contact. Human rights organizations have compared ICE’s isolation practices to torture. Among the most recent victims of ICE cruelty was Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran journalist detained while reporting on an ICE raid. He was placed in solitary confinement for sixty-nine days and eventually deported, a clear act of retaliation meant to intimidate the press. ICE’s pattern of violence against journalists has only intensified, with agents at New York’s 26 Federal Plaza caught on video shoving reporters and blocking their cameras. These are not isolated incidents or mistakes. They represent a system designed to punish and silence rather than protect and process. Every death, every act of neglect, and every cage built to confine human beings tells the same story: that cruelty has become policy. No administration can call itself moral while defending these crimes. Demand that Congress investigate ICE’s ongoing abuses, end solitary confinement in immigration detention, and ensure accountability for every death, every cover-up, and every assault on the press. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fight-to-end-ices-inhuman-treatment-of-immigrants