Analilia Mejia: “This is not the first life we’ve lost inside that facility.”

I will do my part, you will do your part, and I know that together we will demand and we will win the kind of justice that, sadly, Edwin was not given.

One would think that in such a space, there would be more discussion, there would be a genuine debate on issues that are of such importance, like the lives of American people we send abroad to fight in wars or how affordable housing…

I want you to think about what our government is doing to human beings, that we would treat each other with such callousness, that we would allow a human being to suffer, knowing that they are deteriorating in a preventable way.

It is imperative that at least the state of New Jersey is pushing hard to make sure that our state officials have full and unrestricted access to these detention centers to ensure the well being of these individuals. These are human beings.