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Labor Defends Jailed Immigrants: Forklift Driver, Hospital Worker

May 31, 2025 Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes. Resist! Detention Center, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Labor Movement, Unions, Washington State

The Seattle-area labor movement is rallying in defense of immigrant members seized by the Trump regime. Forklift driver Maximo Londonio and his family were on their way home from vacation in the Philippines—where he and his wife had celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary—when he was pulled aside at the airport, held there for days, then taken to a for-profit jail. Londonio has a green card; he moved here from the Philippines when he was just a kid. His wife is a U.S. citizen; they have three daughters. And he’s a Machinist. “Quite a lot of people in the shop are upset,” said Local Lodge 695 President Richard Howard.

Unions Rise For Immigrant Rights At Tacoma ICE Detention Center

May 29, 2025 Aife Pasquale, Fight Back! News. Resist! Detention Center, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Tacoma, Unions, Washington State

Tacoma, WA – On May 23, labor unions and Filipino community groups rallied with a unified message: “Free them all and shut it down!” As the Trump administration continues escalating attacks against immigrant communities, the working class is drawing closer together to defend itself and fight back. The coalition is demanding the immediate release of a Filipino union member known lovingly as “Kuya Max.” Maximo Londonio immigrated to the U.S. as a 12-year-old boy and is now 42. He was detained at the Sea-Tac airport on his way back home to Olympia from a family trip to the Philippines.

Trump To Order Gitmo Prepared As Offshore Prison For Migrants

January 30, 2025 Eloise Goldsmith, Common Dreams. Educate! Detention Center, Donald Trump, Guantanamo Bay, Migrants

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he will sign an executive order instructing the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to prepare the U.S. naval base on Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold tens of thousands of migrants. "We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people," Trump said at the White House at a ceremony to sign the Laken Riley Act, an immigrant detention bill, into law. "Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. So we're going to send them out to Guantánamo," he said.

Biden Just Helped Overrule An ICE Detention Ban In New Jersey

August 30, 2023 Sam Carliner and Paul Ginesta, Left Voice. Resist! Core Civic, Detention Center, Immigrant Rights, Joe Biden, New Jersey (NJ)

Immigrant rights activists in New Jersey are facing a challenge. August 31 was supposed to be the day that the state’s last remaining Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center finally closed. Instead, CoreCivic — the private prison company that runs the center — sued to keep the center open, and President Biden publicly came out on CoreCivic’s side. On August 29, two days before CoreCivic’s contract was set to expire, a federal judge ruled to keep the center open. The immigrant rights movement has not taken this development passively. Leading up to the ruling, various organizations and activists in the state mobilized to defend our immigrant neighbors and our right to ban ICE detention centers.

Berks County Detention Center Is Shutting Down

December 2, 2022 Alan Nunez, Al Dia. Resist! Detention Center, Immigrants, Women, Youth

The Berks County Residential Center, a facility that has been the subject of much scrutiny and protests over its previous housing of migrant children and now migrant women, will be shutting down, according to an announcement from Berks County Officials issued on Wednesday, Nov. 30. County officials were informed by the federal government that it will be ending its contract on Jan. 31, 2023. The public relations officer for the county, Stephanie Weaver, issued a statement that management and staff had been made aware of the government’s decision to shut down the center. It was not specified if employees would lose their jobs or not. According to Weaver, they employ 60 people. Federal government officials have not responded to questions about the decision to close the facility.

Four People Arrested At Invesco’s Shareholders’ Meeting In Atlanta

May 13, 2022 FANG Collective, Uprise RI. Resist! Detention Center, Immigrant Rights, Investment, Rhode Island

Yesterday afternoon people interrupted and disrupted Invesco‘s annual shareholders’ meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Invesco responded by dragging them out of the meeting. A crowd rallied outside of the shareholders’ meeting calling for Invesco to end their investments in the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, Rhode Island. The protest ended with four people being arrested. The Wyatt has faced controversy and ongoing protests after signing a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2019, allowing the Wyatt to detain people on behalf of the agency. After this contract was signed, widespread community opposition led the board overseeing the Wyatt to cancel the agreement with ICE.

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