Earlier this month, guards beat and pepper-sprayed detainees who complained about phones that didn’t work to call lawyers and loved ones.
A 63-year-old man named Mario Vara Gonzalez has been held there for 157 days and has lost 55 pounds.
The dissenting judge in yesterday’s ruling wrote that permitting DHS and ICE to abdicate responsibility “will have dangerous, and sometimes deadly, consequences for detainees who are being abused by officers who, with no state authority or federal supervision, engage in rogue behavior.”
I’ve seen this with my own eyes. This is a system designed to break people, and a court just said it can keep going.
Vote Common Good is organizing and mobilizing candidates who will end this — and reaching voters in places and communities that other progressive organizations don’t reach. This is how we win.
Every dollar you give today keeps us at those gates and in those communities. Please contribute $25, $50, $100, $250, or whatever you can. This work is urgent.
In this together,
Doug
