Date: January 17, 2019

Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time

Presenters:

Grisel Ruiz, Staff Attorney – Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Silky Shah, Executive Director – Detention Watch Network
Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal and Advocacy Director – Project South
Bethany Carson, Immigration Policy Researcher & Organizer – Grassroots Leadership
Barbara Suarez Galeano, National Organizer – Detention Watch Network
Lena Graber, Staff Attorney – Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Overview:

Immigration detention has been expanding at record rates under the Trump Administration, but many of us are fighting detention in all kinds of new and innovative ways. This webinar will provide new advocates and organizers with important background information for understanding ICE detention contracts and the different laws and policies that shape the detention map. Then we will discuss strategies and considerations for fighting detention contracts and facilities, and how to challenge detention as it exists now while holding our goal of a truly prison-free future in mind.