Analilia Mejia: “Ultimately, Delaney Hall must be shut down. We must continue to fight the abuses being carried out by ICE and DHS and…”

Delaney Hall must be shut down. Abolishing and replacing ICE is the only way to correct this—a system that lets this happen again and again cannot be reformed. It must be rebuilt around human dignity.

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.

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.

The bottom line is that we need to ensure that the facilities that our U.S. government are utilizing not only meet the needs of individuals, but that we’re not incentivizing the long-term detention of people who would be best served in the…