Please write to your U.S. Representative to ask them to cosponsor the Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act. If your Representative is already a cosponsor, the system will prompt you to send a thank you message.

As the Trump Administration has dramatically increased the number of immigrants in detention, there have been reports of overcrowding, medical neglect, lack of access to clean water, substandard food, and an increase in the use of solitary confinement.

The Dignity for Detained Immigrants Act would repeal mandatory detention, prohibit family detention, phase out the use of private detention facilities over three years, require unannounced inspections of detention facilities, and enforce civil detention standards that would, among other things, severely limit the use of solitary confinement. It has been widely reported that the threat of prolonged solitary is being used to force immigrant detainees to self-deport, to drop complaints of sexual or other abuses, and to refrain from advocating for their basic civil and human rights while detained.

You can help by writing to your Members of Congress today.