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GEO Group is filing charges against hunger strikers held captive inside Adelanto. A private, for-profit prison corporation with no prosecutorial authority surveilled hunger strikers' communications and filed paperwork charging them. Nobody knows what legal authority GEO actually has to bring these charges. They are a private company operating under a federal contract and the disciplinary system they run inside these facilities has almost no public oversight. That opacity is by design. The harder it is to understand what is happening inside, the harder it is for anyone on the outside to challenge it. GEO Group has been documented using forced labor schemes, benefitting from no-bid contracts, and obfuscating their role in the growing number of ICE detention deaths under this administration. Now they are using their surveillance system to punish people for demanding basic dignity inside a facility the government claims to oversee. A facility where people are denied safe, nutritious food, enough water, medical care, mobility aids, and due process. Where four people died due to medical neglect this year alone (Cal Matters).

The United Nations prohibits any use of solitary confinement for over 15 consecutive days. But people in ICE captivity are being held in solitary for far longer than that two-week maximum. Emanuel Rodrigues, a man with the life-threatening condition rhabdomyolysis which prevents him from walking, endured several forms of punitive treatment inside Delaney Hall before his release yesterday -- a victory of the ongoing hunger and labor strike. Inside Delaney, Emanuel was held in solitary confinement for nearly five months. That is ten times the maximum amount of time an institution is allowed to keep someone in solitary under the United Nations' Mandela Rules. In 2011, United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture Juan E. Méndez said that prolonged solitary confinement "can amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment when used as a punishment, during pre-trial detention, indefinitely or for a prolonged period." Reports like this solidify the fact that ICE is committing human rights violations and torture. Emanuel was also denied crutches by a guard despite needing them as a mobility aid and consequently fell. He was one of the signees of a letter sent out about the cruel conditions inside Delaney, including forced labor for only $1/day, spoiled food that is often contaminated with worms, denied medical treatment, lack of due process, and the denial of their rights to contact families and lawyers on the outside. After he was freed yesterday, Emanuel said that his captivity inside Delaney was "the bottom of the well." “It’s the bottom of a well. That’s how I felt being inside there, like I was at the bottom of a deep well and now here I am ...I just, I, I almost can’t believe it.” Quote Source: Daysi Calavia-Robertson, NJ Advance Media

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In a letter reviewed yesterday by L.A. Taco, 150 hunger strikers at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center expressed the horrific conditions they are forced to endure inside ICE captivity. Today is the 16th day of their hunger strike in protest of the violations of their constitutional and human rights. Meanwhile, CEO George Zoley of GEO Group, the private prison company profiteering off of their inhumane and illegal detention, said on their Q1 earnings call (where they boasted huge increases in revenue from holding immigrants captive): "Through federal ownership there are more protections from unwarranted litigation that infringes upon the activities of ICE Processing Centers. There has been litigation regarding oversight of medical services, food services, general cleanliness, etc. It is really unprecedented and, I believe, 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥." GEO Group is cashing in from imprisoning immigrants in horrific conditions without due process. And their CEO, who is himself an immigrant, believes that any lawsuits concerning GEO Group's treatment of the people they hold captive are "unconstitutional." Not the refusal of due process so more profit can be wrung out of each person's arbitrary detention. Not the cruel and inhumane treatment. Not the preventable deaths. No. What GEO Group believes is truly unconstitutional is them being called out for their abuses in court. Swipe to see part of the letter signed by the 150 people bravely on hunger strike inside Adelanto while enduring violent retaliation and horrific abuses of power by prison guards and the state. Sources: L.A. Taco Daily Memo 6.2.26, GEO Group Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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UPDATE: We are reposting this map we posted last week to include the current hunger strikes at: - North Lake Processing Center in Michigan - Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania This brings the total tally of people currently participating in a hunger/labor strike inside ICE captivity to almost 1,000. For reference, between 2015 and 2020, approximately 1,600 people held captive by ICE participated in a hunger strike. We are now seeing nearly 1,000 people on hunger strike in just the past few weeks. Abolish ICE. Free them all. Disclaimer: This map may be incomplete, and only depicts current hunger strikes. Several additional strikes not depicted on this map have occurred since Jan 2025.

This week, the Trump White House released an official page, 'Aliens', that is disgusting, dehumanizing propaganda. It also loads terribly slowly and barely works. But the data behind it is a useful aggregate record of ICE's arrests by town from January 20, 2025 to May 21, 2026. ResistMap Investigations pulled and reconstructed it in full, so you can use it without visiting the White House page. Zoom in, search a town, and switch between heatmap and markers. The dataset you can download is complete and unaltered, exactly as released; we don't vouch for its accuracy or endorse its contents. Explore the map at 🔗 heat.resistmap.com

The White House just spent tax dollars on a website that dehumanizes immigrants. It uses UFO imagery and horror movie language, describing immigrants as "[arriving] under the cover of darkness and [embedding] themselves directly into our society." They insidiously refer to a kidnapped human as “it”

500 people held captive by ICE are bravely on hunger/labor strikes across the country, persevering despite enduring assaults and brutality from ICE officers, retaliation, the abduction of strike leaders to other facilities, weakened physical health and illness from inhumane detention conditions, and illegal threats. It is Day 9 of 300 people hunger & labor striking at Delaney Hall. For the last 10 days, roughly 120 people have been on hunger strike at the Adelanto Processing Center and Desert View Annex in Adelanto, California. In addition, people are on hunger strikes at the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas, Torrance County Detention Center in New Mexico, and Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington (L.A. Taco, The Stranger). Here are some of the strikes' demands: Demands of Delaney Strikers: - An immediate in-person meeting with Governor Mikie Sherrill at Delaney Hall so she can directly observe conditions and hear testimony from detained individuals. - The immediate release of all prisoners including vulnerable detainees, including elderly people, pregnant women, young people, and individuals with serious medical conditions. - Meaningful and fair review of immigration cases and habeas petitions. - An end to what detained individuals describes as coercive pressure to sign deportation or voluntary departure documents. (Source: American Friends Service Committee) Demands of Adelanto Strikers: - Bond reform: A fair, transparent, and legally justified bond system. Improved conditions: Remediation of mold, repair of water infrastructure, clean water, functioning facilities, and habitability across all units - Adequate medical and mental health care - Nutritious food: A diet that sustains basic physical health - Accountability for ALL deaths - Right to organize and communicate: The ability to meet collectively, speak with outside advocates, and communicate with family and the public without interference or retaliation (Source: IE Immigrant Youth Collective) Now is a moment where every single action matters. Please call the governors, Congresspeople, and state reps in these states and echo the demands of those bravely on strike.

🚨ALERT: An ICE Air flight JUST LANDED in Newark, New Jersey. This is the location of Delaney Hall, the ICE internment camp where 300 immigrants trapped inside have been on a hunger and labor strike for a week. This is happening simultaneously to ICE agents brutalizing hunger strikers INSIDE the facility today in an attempt to start a riot. The NJ Alliance for Justice reported today that people are being beaten with batons and pepper sprayed inside the facility. They attest that 40 guards entered Unit 2A 2B using brute force, and that they have "broken a boy's face." @hereswhykevin reported that a wife told him someone was knocked unconscious, and that many people are injured and bleeding. What's more, the use of pepper spray inside an enclosed facility is making it difficult for people to breathe. Outside the facility, activists have been assaulted by ICE officers over the course of the last week. ICE pushed an unarmed man into an 18-wheeler, crushing his foot. Activists are being brutalized, pepper balled, and pepper sprayed. Sen. Andy Kim was pepper-sprayed when he tried to enter the building for an inspection that he had clearance to conduct by ICE. The NJ Department of Health was also denied entry. Family members outside the facility have called 911, but they say they refused to intervene. Sources: Here's Why Kevin, Status Coup, JJ in DC

BREAKING: Pepper spray, Pepper Balls and Massive Barricade Clashes between Anti-ICE Protesters with Shields and Federal Agents at Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center Protesters built barricades and used cement blocks to reinforce their line blocking facility as ICE pushed back

Latif Hafraoui spent 108 days in ICE detention last year, primarily at Delaney Hall in New Jersey, where hundreds are hunger striking the cruel conditions inside. This article is a look inside Delaney's walls from his perspective. pglickman.substack.com/p/with-migrant…

The Trump DOJ spent last week scrubbing its own website of every news release related to January 6th prosecutions, calling the charge sheets, conviction records, and sentencing documents “partisan propaganda”.

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1 in every 1,000 Americans will be in Indianapolis this weekend for the Indy 500 (the largest single-day sporting event in the world). So we coordinated with Indiana organizers to put up this billboard. Our message? Republicans are pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into caging children, kidnapping innocent people off the street, tearing families apart, and building internment camps. These decisions have made it impossible for everyday Americans to afford groceries, rent, medical care, and gas. The billboard is located on I-465 S, 500 feet east of Emerson Ave.

The day after ICE agent Christian Castro shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a ResistMap analyst pieced together a live-streamed video of the aftermath of the shooting and 911 call. We verified the geolocation of the video, which was within 200 feet of the location of the shooting, and released the evidence with blurred faces and redacted segments that would have compromised privacy. We also filed requests to the Police Department for footage related to the shooting, including from Flock surveillance devices, in an effort to prevent this egregious act of state-sactioned violence from being swept under the rug. Video evidence released last month from a city-owned security camera corroborated the evidence in the video we analyzed, and was substantial enough for a state prosecutor at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office to place charges. Now a nationwide warrant is out for Castro’s arrest, yet his location is unknown, and he is not yet in custody. Castro was one of two agents who ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted had lied about the shooting. Yet the press release containing dozens of false statements remains on DHS’s website. Castro has been on paid administrative leave since the shooting. He is the second federal agent to be criminally charged for their actions during Operation Metro Surge.

In San Diego yesterday, three lives were lost while taking heroic actions to save their community members when two active shooters targeted the Islamic Center of San Diego. This was a hate crime. Today the FBI revealed that the two teenage shooters had met online and shared a "broad hatred" toward people of other religions and races. The Police Chief said the two shooters engaged in "generalized hate rhetoric.” The AP obtained writings from the shooters that included hateful rhetoric toward Muslims. The documents also included symbols associated with white supremacy and Nazis. They referred to themselves as the “Sons of Tarrant,” after the shooter who attacked mosques in New Zealand and killed 51 people. This act of hate took the lives of three beloved community members: Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha (who also went by Abul Ezz), and Nadir Awad. These brave men put their lives on the line to protect their community. Amin Abdullah, a security guard and father of eight, slowed the shooters and protected 140 school children who were mere steps away. Even after he was shot, he reached for his radio to issue a lockdown. Mansour Kaziha, who went by Abul Ezz, helped draw the shooters away from the building and toward a parking lot. Kaziha called 911 before he was fatally shot. He had been a community leader since 1986. Nadir Awad, who lived across the street and was the husband to a teacher at the school, rushed to the Center when he heard the shooting. He also distracted the shooters, luring them away from the building before he and Kaziha were cornered and killed. The families of these heroes and the Islamic Center of San Diego community are grieving the unthinkable loss of these three brave men. To support the families, please visit LaunchGood.com/MartyrsICSD ㅤ

CW: Murder of a child, description of violence before the murder Orlin Hernandez Reyes was two years old when ICE deported his mother, Wendy Hernandez Reyes, to Honduras without him.  He begged to go with her and she begged to take him.  ICE loaded her onto a plane anyway and left him in the care of an uncle who beat him, burned him, and killed him.  He was just three years old when he died. The week after Orlin's death, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons put out a press release saying his mother had abandoned her child to a violent murderer.  Court records and her own account contradict that directly.  She had no criminal record.  She repeatedly asked to be deported with her son and ICE ignored every request and then blamed her for the consequences. We have seen this playbook from DHS more times than we can count. ICE told us Geraldo Lunas Campos died of medical distress. An autopsy called it homicide by asphyxiation.  ICE told us Renée Good's and Alex Pretti’s killers fired in self defense. The video evidence told a different story.  The official story always lands first and it is almost always a lie. This isn't bending the truth. It's shattering it. ICE is fully responsible for the death of Orlin Hernandez Reyes.

CoreCivic is the for-profit company that runs the Dilley internment camp, where ICE pays them to cage kids. ㅤ On May 7th, CEO Patrick Swindle said: "The corrections and detention beds that we provide are the most humane, most efficient logistically, most compliant, most secure, readily available, and provide the best value to the government." At Dilley, there have been RSV, Covid-19, and measles outbreaks. They deny kids medical care, edible food, and safe drinking water, and toothbrushes.

The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here: gofund.me/456d8a193

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Last fall the Trump administration used backroom pressure on big tech companies like Apple and Google to kill ICE tracking tools. A federal judge just confirmed it. A court order filed last week found that DOJ and DHS officials effectively threatened Apple and Meta with prosecution if they did not pull a Chicago-based ICE monitoring app and Facebook group offline. At the time, Pam Bondi went on Fox News and bragged that Apple had taken down the app in response to the DOJ's demand. The group had 70,000 members when Facebook disabled it. The judge called the government's threats thinly veiled and ruled they constituted a First Amendment violation. We watched this happen in real time and we built ResistMap specifically so it could never happen to us. ResistMap does not live in the Apple App Store, Google Play, or on Meta's servers. We built and maintain our own infrastructure, which means no tech executive with a phone call from the White House can flip a switch and make us disappear. The government cannot threaten our platform's existence the way it threatened Eyes Up and ICE Sightings Chicago because we maintain our infrastructure independently. The court ruling last week vindicated the decision we made from day one to build this thing as a website, not an app. We're still growing and scaling our platform to be as helpful as possible for communities at risk of ICE violence or detention. If your rapid response group is interested in learning more about our tool and seeing if it would be a good fit for your community, let us know. We're here to help. >> [email protected]