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Center on Immigration

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Center on Immigration at Cabrini University

 Radnor Township, PA
cabrini.edu/immigration
Joined July 2017
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Our fight continues! This site should never again be used to inflict violence against immigrants .@POTUS .@VP .@SecMayorkas We need to turn the facility into a hub of community services. Our community stands with immigrants. #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll #FreedomNotTransfers
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.@POTUS .@VP .@SecMayorkas Let shutting down Berks be the beginning of the end of all forms of immigrant detention in Pennsylvania. We need community services not abusive systems. #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll #ReleasesNotTransfers #CommunitiesNotCages
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We will also remain vigilant that this site will never again be used to inflict more violence against immigrants or incarcerate more people as it transitions to a new purpose.
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Make the Road PA🦋@MakeTheRoadPA30 Nov 2022
FREEDOM. This is what endless hope and organizing delivers. Thanks to 8 years of organizing by the fearless @shutdownberks coalition, we #shutdownberks inquirer.com/news/pennsylvan…
Berks immigrant detention center to close as federal government ends contract

Berks immigrant detention center to close as federal government ends contract

The center is best known as having been one of three facilities in the United States that confined immigrant families

inquirer.com
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This is the victory of the people detained at Berks over the past 2 decades. It is the voices of detained families & women that have voiced the abuses at the facility. Now we need all women released from Berks. #ShutDownBerks #FreedomNotTransfers .@POTUS .@VP .@SecMayorkas
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.@POTUS .@VP .@SecMayorkas Today we are celebrating the victory of our community! 8 years of relentless organizing and advocacy led to the decision to #shutdownberks #FreeThemAll #FreedomNotTransfers #CommunitiesNotCages Read here tinyurl.com/3cxvdr2v
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We want to thank all of our detained leaders for their resilience, wisdom and continued fight for freedom.Thank you for your work with our coalition and advocating for your community! #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll #FreedomNotTransfers #CommunitiesNotCages .@POTUS .@VP .@SecMayorkas
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ORGANIZING WORKS! IT'S BEING SHUT DOWN!!!!! This is a victory for the Berks community, A result of a collaborative effort between many including people who have suffered the violence of detention at Berks #ShutDownBerks #CommunitiesNotCages readingeagle.com/2022/11/30/…
Federal government to close Berks County Residential Center for migrants

Federal government to close Berks County Residential Center for migrants

The Berks County Residential Center, a Bern Township facility where asylum seekers have been held that has been the subject of prolonged protests, will be shutting its doors.

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We took the message to the White House telling @POTUS no more detention in PA. #ShutDownBerks #ShutDownMoshannon #FreeThemAll @Free_Migration @MakeTheRoadPA @CASAforall @Vamos_Juntos_ @familiesfreedom @CUimmigration @BerksStandsUp @SunriseBerks @CAIR_PA aldianews.com/en/politics/po…
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People have spoken! #FreeThemAll
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Today, we are here to directly deliver a message @POTUS. Detention is family separation, expansion of detention is not a reformed immigration #ShutDownBerks
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We know that in other women detention centers there's been pervasive sexual abuse, retaliation, medical neglect & nutritional deprivation. We don't want this prison in our backyard! buff.ly/3JVdx64 #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll
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There's no good reason to keep the Berks immigrant prison open. Residents of the county, state & nation have spoken: it's time to #ShutDownBerks & use the space for something that actually benefits the community. #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll
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“At its core, all detention is separation—from family, from community, and from access to critical services.” buff.ly/3rGa0Cb #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll
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Incarcerating immigrants -whether they be families, children, or individual adults- is abusive, unjust, and unnecessary! Our communities deserve better services, not more prisons. #ShutDownBerks #FreeThemAll
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So we ask .@JohnFetterman again: Will you call on President Biden to permanently close the Berks County detention center? It is now a prison for immigrant women w/ twice as many beds as before. We hope you will stand up for immigrant women now. [end of 🧵]
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If .@JohnFetterman didn’t know Berks is now a women’s prison, we’d be happy to educate him on what has happened over the last year. If he did know, he evaded the question by pretending Berks was still a family prison.
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Now that .@JohnFetterman is campaigning again, he is willing to talk about Berks. But he is misleading the public by calling for “the end of detaining families and children” when he should know there have been no families or children at Berks for the last 13 months.
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There is no good reason to keep the Berks immigrant prison open, and residents of the county, state, & nation have spoken: this prison should be closed & the space used for something that actually benefits the community.
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Despite unanimous community opposition at a public hearing in August, the Berks County Commissioners approved and signed the new contract. Earlier this year, ICE began detaining women at the Berks prison. wesa.fm/courts-justice/2021-…
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