Please join us on 12/10 from 11 am to 12:30 pm outside the Elizabeth Detention Center in observance of International Human Rights Day. The EDC is where immigration detention began in NJ. It is also where the resistance to caging people based on their country of birth began when the people held inside, mainly Black asylum seekers, staged an uprising in 1995.

Today the EDC is still caging asylum seekers, mainly from Haiti and Nicaragua, who have recently crossed the Southern Border. It is also serving as a processing center for non-citizens who have completed a prison or jail sentence in NJ prior to being sent to an out of state detention facility.

We will be calling on our legislators to:

• Stop Incarcerating Asylum Seekers
• End NJ DOC’s Cooperation with ICE
• Shut Down the EDC Once and For All
• End the Criminalization of Migration & Abolish ICE Detention