📢 Advocate Groups Send Letter to ICE Condemning Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers at Folkston In the last week, immigrants detained at the Folkston ICE Processing Center released a video, open letter…

and 9-page report calling for an end to their prolonged detention of two years or more. Over 500 immigrants detained at Folkston, representing countries all around the world, have engaged in a hunger strike to seek their immediate release. As the hunger strike enters its second week, we continue to hear troubling and disturbing reports of retaliation against detained individuals speaking out about inhumane conditions. On Friday the Campaign to Shut Down the Folkston ICE Processing Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, Project South, and the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLARH) sent a letter to ICE expressing serious concern about retaliation by ICE and GEO Group guards against hunger strikers. As we say in the letter: “We condemn the reported practices of retaliation, punitive isolation, sleep deprivation, medical neglect, abusive treatment, and the unexplained transfer or loss of contact with individuals held in the facility. Complaints by detained people and their families should be taken seriously and investigated—not met with intimidation, harassment, retaliation, or additional hardship.” 🔗 Read the full letter here or at the link in our bio: bit.ly/3TZqerw CHECK OUT THESE OTHER RESOURCES: ▪️ Watch the video from detained immigrants: bit.ly/47ceYuS ▪️Read their open letter: bit.ly/4dTMN7G ▪️Read their report documenting violations and conditions at Folkston: bit.ly/4yxRNap ▪️Continue to follow and support the #ShutDownFIPC Campaign! #EndDetention #AbolishICE #ShutDownFIPC