LOS ANGELES (RNS) – Religious leaders and activists protested outdoors in California prisons and immigrant detention centers on Tuesday, calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to do more to free inmates and detainees who are said to be in danger amid COVID-19 outbreaks.
Organizers held and placed banners denouncing Newsom on road overpasses and in outdoor prisons. Activists hung banners outdoors in prisons that said “Gavin Newsom COVID-19 Extermination Camp” and “Department of Infections and Weakening. “
Banner Drop’s Day of Action, organized through a coalition of immigrant rights teams and religious teams, came a day after a women’s and women’s organization ended a five-day hunger strike to draw attention to the detention of two pastors and immigrants at the ICE Advance Detention Center. Fix where several cases of COVID-19 have been reported.
The coalition included teams such as the Interreligious Movement for Human Integrity, the clergy and lay people united by economic justice, the Interfaith Council of Marin and the Kehilla Community Synagogue.
The voices of activists, leaders, and families of incarcerated people were broadcast in a virtual zoom conference, held in Yuba, San Diego, San Francisco and Adelanto.
Reverend Deborah Lee, executive director of the Interreligious Movement for Human Integrity, declared an ICE facility in San Francisco outdoors and suggested Newsom suspend California’s role in moving prisoners to migrant detention centers.
“Instead of being allowed to return home to their families, they are taken to this construction through ICE, treated as a commodity and then sent to ICE detention centers in California and even other states,” Lee said.
“Like others of faith, we ask for compassion, mercy, mercy, leniency, liberation, and an end to ICE transfers,” he said.
Representatives of the Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland also participated, saying, “As Jews, our scriptures teach us that each and every life is precious.
Organizers of the clergy and lay people united by economic justice attended a rally at the ICE detention center in Adelanto, where immigrant pastors Hugo Rolando Gómez and Allan Altamirano have been detained for more than a year.
Jael Serrano Altamirano told the Spanish newspaper La Opinión that her husband, a riverside pastor, was suffering from the disease of the center and said she sent him back to Adelanto after being hospitalized for a week.
“We are afraid because his condition puts him in the maximum threat of contracting coronavirus,” he told La Opinion.
A U. S. district has been a district of the United States. But it’s not the first time He handed down a ruling on ICE recently reprimanded and the personal criminal enterprise that runs the ICE Advance Repair Center for its “good and objectively unreasonable enough” reaction to COVID-19, according to the Desert Sun. stated that the establishment had not provided sufficient social distance or timely evidence. Activists are also protesting plans to expand the Adelanto facility.
From the beginning of the pandemic to the end of August, Cal Matters reported that California needed to release more than 11,000 prisoners first. These prisoners largely come with nonviolent offinishers who are less than a year old to serve, according to the news. Site.