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Content warning: death of a detained immigrant One Southern movement we’ve had our eye on is happening behind bars at the Folkston ICE Processing Center in south Georgia.
A 48-year-old man from El Salvador, Luis Sandoval, died there last month in the midst of roughly 500 people at the facility observing a hunger strike. @shutdownfipc organizers are escalating their calls to shut down the facility for good, given the abuses that persist there. To learn more, read Sharon Zhang’s story for @truthout at bit.ly/shutdownfipc. Photo credit: Elijah Nouvelage @wanderingdrome [Image description from Truthout: “Buses are seen behind razor wire at the Folkston ICE Processing Center on September 9, 2025, in Folkston, Georgia.”]
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