Immigrants detained at the GEO Group-run detention centers in Adelanto, California, and Delaney Hall in New Jersey are protesting inhumane conditions, including mold, substandard food, lack of medical care and retaliation.

Last week, San Francisco gathered for a Solidarity Rally to show community support from coast to coast.The rally was held at Turk & Taylor St, the site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, the first well-documented trans and queer uprising against police violence in the U.S., three years before Stonewall, and which is now owned by GEO Group and operated as a private prison. We gathered to demand: ICE & GEO GROUP OUT. No Detention Centers in Dublin or Gilroy!

Before we came together, we decried the police violence at SF Trans March and the daily abuse inside Essex County Correctional Facility, the infamous New Jersey jail so close to the Delaney Hall that it shares a parking lot. Our struggles, whether for trans liberation or against ICE cannot be separated from our fight against policing and prisons.

Delaney Hall itself tells that story. Built first as a jail, it later became an immigrant detention center—its basketball court converted into a soccer field when the skin tone of the people caged changed from majority Black to majority brown. The violence and infrastructure of ICE is the violence and infrastructure of policing and prisons.

As the Supreme Court polices gender by clearing the way for trans sports bans, politicians are expanding budgets for criminalization. One in six trans people has experienced incarceration, and nearly half of all Black trans people have been incarcerated. The institutions that cage immigrants are part of the broader machinery that targets Black communities, trans people, and anyone deemed disposable.

The same machinery is targeting protestors resisting ICE. At least five of the 22 Prairieland defendants are trans and are at risk of soon being denied gender affirming hormones and gender affirming care in federal prison. Federal grand jury investigations are being used against ICE protesters in an effort to intimidate and isolate our movements. This is the sign of a weak regime that is lashing out because it knows it is losing popular support and cannot win fair and free elections.

As Trump tries to cling to power through escalating repression, understanding these tactics—and knowing how to respond collectively—is essential to protecting our movements and each other. Learn more by exploring these resources from the Grand Jury Resistance Project and from Catalyst Project’s Troublemaker’s Guide.

If you are contacted by federal or other law enforcement agencies, you should exercise your rights and contact legal support immediately. You do not have to open your door or let FBI or other agents into your home without a warrant. If agents come to your door, ask for their card and say “my lawyer will contact you.”

If you have been indicted, subpoenaed, or contacted by the federal government, you can call:

National Lawyers Guild Federal Repression Line: 212-679-2811

Bay Area Federal Defense Line: 415-285-1041

These lines can help connect you with a lawyer if you are contacted by government agents in relation to your political activities.

From Grand Juries to Compton's Cafeteria to ICE & GEO Group OUT: Our Fight is Against All Cages

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