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DESCRIPTION:The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs 
 Enforcement (ICE) are currently warehousing hundreds and thousands of 
 children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador who have, in recent 
 months, streamed across the Texas-Mexico border. Once detained, they are 
 being held in freezing holding cells, nicknamed "hieleras," or ice chests. 
 Many thousands of children, some unaccompanied, and mothers with toddlers 
 are now in U.S. detention. They lack nutritious food, sanitary conditions, 
 health care, and beds. Thousands are being sent to military bases for 
 so-called "shelter" - but the fact is that they are being incarcerated and 
 secreted away: no reporters are allowed to interview them, or to take 
 photographs; the general public is being denied access to them and 
 prevented from inspecting their conditions of confinement. NO! These 
 children need enjoyable, positive living environments, not mass 
 incarceration and not deportation!\n\nWE SAY NO MORE! LET OUR CHILDREN 
 GO!\n\nThe U.S. has 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s 
 prison population! More than 60% of those in U.S. prisons are Black or 
 Latina/o. More than 80,000 people in prison are held in solitary 
 confinement under conditions that fit the international definition of 
 torture. The incarceration of women has increased by 800% over the last 30 
 years. Alongside this has risen a massive program of criminally prosecuting 
 undocumented immigrants. \n\nDeportations under the Obama administration 
 have crossed the 2 million mark, resulting in many thousands of children 
 separated from their parents!  We stand in solidarity with the courageous 
 anti-deportation movement and the demand, “Not 1 More Deportation!” 
 \n\nICE, the agency responsible for immigration detention within the 
 Department of Homeland Security (DHS), now detains approximately 34,000 
 immigrants every night and more than 400,000 individuals each year. 
 Immigrants in detention facilities around the United States are often 
 subjected to punitive and long-term solitary confinement and denied 
 meaningful avenues of appeal. Since 2005, the immigration detention 
 population has increased by nearly 85 percent. And now, U.S. military 
 installations are incarcerating thousands of refugee children in prison 
 camps! \n\nThis must stop—NOW! Not the next generation, not in ten years, 
 not any time off in some promised future that never seems to come. 
 NOW!\nThe Stop Mass Incarceration Network is calling for a massive Month of 
 Resistance to Mass Incarceration in October of this year; a Month that can 
 impact all of society; one that can open the eyes of millions of people to 
 the need to end this new Jim Crow. In October, 2014, our resistance to mass 
 incarceration must reverberate across the country and around the world. 
 October, 2014, must be a month that makes clear that thousands and 
 thousands are willing to stand up and speak out today and to awaken and 
 rally forth millions. It must be the beginning of the end of mass 
 incarceration in the U.S.\n\nInitiated by Stop Mass Incarceration Network 
 Bay Area; Endorsed by Causa Justa/Just Cause, Mujeres Unidas, The 
 Ecumenical Peace Institute –CALC, Southern Alameda Peace and Justice 
 Coalition, and School of the Americas Watch -Hayward\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/23/18757812.php
SUMMARY:Emergency Protest! Let Our Children Go!!!
LOCATION:I.C.E. Enforcement and Removal Operations Office\n630 Sansome Street, San 
 Francisco CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/23/18757812.php
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