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Community organizations will hold a vigil and community altar to honor the people that have died in immigration detention since the beginning of the year. People directly impacted by immigration detention will share their testimonies and will also demand the release of Gualberto Olac, a day-laborer currently detained at Tri County Detention Center in Ullin, Illinois.
Honoring the lives of those lost to the unjust and inhumane detention system, community members demand the release of day-laborer fromTri County Detention Center and a stop to the expansion of immigration detention
The vigil will be held Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at the Broadview Detention Center, 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, IL at 6:00 p.m.
Participants of the event are Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD), Chicago Religious Leadership Network (CRLN), PASO – West Suburban Action Project, Latino Union of Chicago, faith leaders, individuals and families directly impacted by the immigration detention system
Marking the Latin American holiday, Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, Organized Communities Against Deportations, PASO – West Suburban Project, Chicago Religious Leadership Network, Latino Union of Chicago, Detention Watch Network (DWN), faith groups and community members will hold a vigil at Broadview Detention Center on November 1, 2016 to bring awareness to the unjust deaths of immigrants in detention centers and demand the release of Gualberto Olac, a day laborer detained at Tri-County Detention Center in Ullin, Illinois.
Recent investigations concluded that inadequate medical care resulted in the deaths of 165 men and women in immigration detention since 2013. In 2010, Jose Antonio Hernandez-Gomez died whiled detained at Broadview Detention Center after his medical needs were not met. Immigrants like Gualberto Olac, who has been in the U.S. since he was sixteen and was detained after being racially profiled by ICE agents, are at risk at the hands of an agency focused on the expansion of immigration detention instead of ending the deaths inside their prisons for immigrants. Last week, it was confirmed that contrary to the Department of Justice’s announcement to close private prisons, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for additional bed-space to expand the number of immigrants in detention to almost 45,000.
The vigil will embrace traditional elements of the Day of the Dead holiday, by including altars decorated in memory of those who have died in detention and stories shared from those who’ve been directly impacted by the immigration detention system.
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