Tell Your Representatives: No More Human Warehouses: Urge Your Senators to Block ICE’s Detention Expansion
Call BOTH of your Senators.
Call ONE of the Representatives. Note: only one of these Congressmembers represents you. Find out which one here.
Call script
My name is _____ and my zip code is _____. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I’m calling to ask you to use all the tools in your power to stop ICE and DHS plans to warehouse immigrants.
Also, Send a Letter/Email
Another action you can take is to let your representatives know why it’s so important to stop these warehouses by sending an Action Network MOC Letter (Urge Senators and Members of Congress to Stop Warehousing Immigrants)
Background
Across the country, communities are confronting a disturbing new reality: ICE’s push to convert massive industrial warehouses into detention centers capable of holding tens of thousands of people at once. Under the Trump administration’s expanded detention plan, ICE is already detaining over 70,000 people and is aiming to increase capacity to more than 100,000 at a given time. These makeshift “warehouse camps”—some designed to confine up to 10,000 individuals—aren’t equipped for human habitation and pose dire health and safety risks. They also divert local water and sewer resources, threaten pollution of nearby waterways, and invite corporate profiteering from the mass incarceration of immigrants. Turning storage facilities into human holding pens is not only inhumane—it echoes one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history.
Local residents across the country—from Utah to Virginia—are standing up and saying no. Communities are mobilizing to protect their neighbors, reject the monetization of suffering, and demand investment in what truly strengthens families: education, healthcare, and housing. Now is the time for all of us to act. Stay informed through the Detention Watch Network, contact your congressional representatives, and urge them to oppose ICE’s detention expansion. People are not commodities. Together, we can stop the rise of warehouse detention and ensure our communities remain places of care, dignity, and belonging for everyone. Please stay informed and stay active.
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