Highlighting what they say is a “global human rights issue,” dozens of rights campaigners on Monday morning locked themselves together and formed a human chain to block buses at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) in Takoma, Washington from carrying out deportations of suspected undocumented people.
The action, still ongoing at the time of publication, also looks beyond stopping Monday’s buses, with participants calling for an end to the “criminalization and scapegoating of immigrants” in the United States and the “moral injustice of privately-run for-profit detentions centers and their collaboration with local police departments creating a road to detention.” In addition, protesters are demanding a halt to “all immigrant deportations and detentions,” according to a press statement.
“The government could close these detention centers today and end the practice of corporations profiting from imprisoning human beings, ensure all its residents have access to quality food and healthy homes, and change its international policies to create fair trade for people and the planet,” said undocumented immigrant Maru Mora-Villalpando from the human chain, where she stood alongside her daughter Josefina Mora.
“People should not be forced to migrate, and those already here should be allowed to remain with their families and communities,” Mora-Villalpando continued.
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