Thursday: DC Day of the Dead Press Conference Honoring Lives Lost to ICE Detention
Detention Watch Network and Popular Democracy will mark Day of the Dead with a press conference outside of Capitol Hill and an altar to honor people who have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention. The press conference will underscore the cruelty of Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda, which has a tremendous human toll and cost to all Americans. Shockingly, there have been at least 24 deaths in ICE custody in just ten months, a record number of deaths within a calendar year since Detention Watch Network began tracking in 2006, including three deaths by suicide.
Today'ss action is a kick off to the Disappeared in America Weekend of Action that brings together a broad national coalition – including the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), Detention Watch Network, The Workers Circle, Public Citizen, Women’s March, Strategic Organizing Initiative, and many others – for a weekend of coordinated protests, vigils, and cultural actions. Together, we are demanding due process, freedom, and justice for all.
- What: Press conference featuring members of Congress, immigrant and health justice advocates, and directly impacted individuals, as well as a day of the dead altar by Dia de Los Muertos DC
- When: Thursday, October 30 at 11:00 am ET
- Where: RSVP to [email protected] for the location at Capitol Hill
