Eloy Detention Center

After Being Denied Entry Last Month, Representative Yassamin Ansari Finally Spoke with Immigrant Detainees in Eloy

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After previously being denied access to the Eloy Detention Center last month per new and illegal Homeland Security check in guidelines, Arizona Congressional District (CD) Three Representative Yassamin Ansari, a vocal and active opponent of Trump Fascist White Nationalist Immigration Policy, finally met with a multinational group of inmates at that facility yesterday, August 30, … Read more

What is ICE Hiding: Representative Greg Stanton Denied Entry to the Eloy Detention Facility

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What is ICE and Donald Trump’s Fascist Homeland Security Department hiding at the Eloy Detention Center. That is a question everyone should be asking as MAGA’s masked secret police goons and their confederates have denied entry to another Arizona House Representative, Congressional District Four’s Greg Stanton. This is the second House Representative in a week … Read more

Rising Congressional Star Yassamin Ansari Launches Affordability Tour; Is Denied Entry to ICE Detention Facility in Eloy

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Fresh off being named the Chairperson of the Progressive Task Force on Lowering Costs, rising Democratic Congressional Star Arizona CD Three Representative Yassamin Ansari has launched an affordability tour across Arizona starting July 26 in Scottsdale and then continuing on July 29 in Flagstaff, August 2 in Tucson, and August 3 in Phoenix. Commenting on … Read more

Immigration Reform NOW: Protestors Blockade Entrance to Eloy Detention Center

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From the arrest of Congressman Raul Grijalva and other progressive representatives last week at an immigration reform rally to protesters chaining themselves to immigration detention center buses to the blockade of the Eloy Detention Center today, immigration reform advocates are turning up the pressure.

The Eloy blockade began this morning. For background information go here and for dramatic photos go here.

From the National Day Laborer Organizing Network…

Just now, protestors chained themselves in front of the Eloy Detention Center. Their action calls on the President to stop deportations and the criminalization of immigrants. Through civil disobedience they say they’re exposing the inhumane imprisonment at the center of current immigration policy and the needless warehousing of the undocumented who could benefit from reform.

Many of those inside Eloy have committed no major offense and instead are victims of Congress’ 34,000 minimum detention bed mandate and the profiling of Sheriffs like Arpaio and Border Patrol required to fulfill the arbitrary quota.