Recess Resistance: Immigrant Rights Day of Action

As our members of Congress return home for the recess, join us to oppose Trump’s deportation machine and its corporate beneficiaries, and call for an end to ICE Raids that divide our families.
•11am: Action at Elizabeth Detention Center, 625 Evans St, Elizabeth, NJ a privately run immigration detention center where 300 immigrants are held awating deportation proceedings. Call for and end to raids and private detention centers.
•1:30pm: Rally at Congressman Lance (R-07) office 425 North Avenue East, Westfield, NJ to demand he call for an end to immigration raids.
The Trump Administration has escalated raids on immigrants and their families over the past weeks. Hundreds of immigrants from across New Jersey and the East Coast are detained in the Elizabeth Detention Center, a nerve center in the deportation network and privately owned detention center.
COSPONSORS: American Friends Service Committee, Faith in New Jersey, Make the Road Connecticut, Make the Road New York, Make the Road Pennsylvania, SEIU 32BJ, Wind of the Spirit, Working Families Alliance NJ, New Jersey-Delaware Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.