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The community-by-community fight against the human warehouses is continuing. ICE is still trying to push forward with their plans to cram 1,500 people into a converted industrial site near Williamsport, Maryland, holding more captives than they indicated and increasing the impact on local sewage systems more than they pledged. Right now local activists are working to take advantage of an open public comment period for an environmental assessment to stop them – a period that exists thanks to a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general.

✍🏻 TODAY is the final day to submit our environmental comments to DHS. The great folks at Hagerstown Rapid Response have set up a form to make our voices heard with instructions on how to speak up effectively here and outlined concerns we can raise here - and they’re specifically asking people to speak up from anywhere. Let’s use their tool to register our objections to this ICE camp. ✍🏾

In the face of retaliatory mass transfers, expedited deportations, solitary confinement, lockdowns, tear gassings and canceled visitations, activists on the ground are reporting that ICE captives at Adelanto and Delaney Hall have made a strategic decision to bring their hunger strikes to an end for now. Both went on for more than a month, and the Jersey strikers in particular managed to push the extreme medical neglect, lack of access to clean food and water, physical and sexual abuse and denial of due process for folks held in the concentration camps back into the national conversation. They also secured the release of pregnant women and several other vulnerable detainees in Newark.

The fight will go on, and right now we need to make sure the regime is still hearing us as they seek to punish those who led these efforts.

Martin Soto, who was an organizer in Delaney Hall and was transferred to Elizabeth, New Jersey for his and his wife Gabriela’s speaking out, has reportedly lost more than 50 pounds in detention. Gabriela is an American citizen currently pregnant with their third child, and he was arrested buying diapers for their 11-month-old. His lawyers have filed a petition for his emergency release. ✍🏿 We can sign this request from Cosecha to increase the public pressure for Martin’s freedom, and contribute to support his legal fight here. ✍🏻

FREE MARTIN SOTO

Kyron Shakeel Swaso, a refugee from Belize who helped pull people together in Adelanto strikes, was ultimately deported to break the strikes. He is now faced with the prospect of rebuilding his life. 💵 The Shut Down Adelanto coalition is encouraging us to donate via Cashapp or Zelle to help him do so via Cashapp or Zelle at 678-517-4788. 💵

SUPPORT SWASO

💵 For the folks still locked up, we can donate to commissary accounts for those in Adelanto here and folks in Delaney Hall here and donate to help CLUE Justice and SOMA Community Cares bond out folks in detention here and here. 💵

BOND OUT FOLKS IN ADELANTO...

...AND IN DELANEY HALL

Finally, these will not be the last of our friends and neighbors to turn to hunger strikes as a tactic behind the barbed wire. ⚙️ La Resistencia in Washington State have prepared a guide on how to support strikes inside detention centers based on their experience doing so since 2014, and Make The Road States has put together a terrific action toolkit on how we can organize in our communities against corporate collaborators and our local concentration camps and proposed human warehouses we can put to use. ⚙️

A RAPID RESPONSE GUIDE TO STRIKE SUPPORT

The deportation machine is being made possible by private prison companies like GEO Group and CoreCivic. The private prison companies are being financed by Citizens Bank, to the tune of half a billion dollars each. And Citizens Bank is in business with the rest of us, too – meaning we have the power to knock down this key pillar of support for ICE terror.

The De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition has been organizing individuals and institutions to divest or join the pool of folks pledging to close their Citizens accounts. They’ve now built a pool of $22.8 million in deposits from folks committed to move their money unless Citizens Bank stops funding the concentration camps. And earlier this month they scored a game-changing victory, with the city council of Jersey City, New Jersey voting to pull $265 million from Citizens. Now Montclair is considering following suit with another $93.1 million. Even a business this size is going to stand up and take notice of that.

On MONDAY at 7PM ET, De-ICE Citizens Bank is holding a webinar featuring Jersey City municipal officials and organizers to talk about how they won and how we can encourage our local governments to do the same. 🏫 We can sign up to join them here. 🏫

JERSEY CITY DID IT, WE CAN TOO

And on July 18th, they’re going to hold their next day of action, with protests at Citizens Bank branches across the nation. They made their presence felt at more than 140 locations in 15 states at their last mobilization on June 6th, and they’re hoping to grow even bigger this time around. 🪧 We can sign up to host an action here and find one near us here! 🪧

HOST AN ACTION 7/18

FIND ONE NEAR US

Also in today’s Rogan’s List:

• 356,000 of our neighbors are now set to lose legal status in a month - push for Congress to step in, signal boost useful resources, and make sure we’re connected with rapid response
• Trump proposes non-disclosure agreements for federal workers to keep his misdeeds secret - FINAL DAY to submit public comments to say no
• Stand with Kansas City tenant organizers and demand their landlord keep his word
• A state-by-state guide to pre-registering future 18-year-olds to vote
• This week’s judges to thank
• It’s a great summer to fight for our democracy - join Get Free and The 50501 Movement’s All of U.S. 250 mass mobilizations nationwide tomorrow and sign up to help flip seats in the midterms in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and North Carolina all weekend 🤛🏿

We don't get many opportunities to hear firsthand from folks inside the ICE camps.

Yesterday the Los Angeles Times ran this piece by Brady Tillett, a Belizean refugee who has been held by the deportation machine since 2024 and is currently locked behind the barbed wire at the California City detention facility.

Every American should read it.

Click through for quotes and read and share the full piece here: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-06-24/ice-detention-conditions-california-city

The Prairieland defendants, convicted of conspiracy and terrorism charges over a shooting at an anti-ICE noise demonstration they insist they were uninvolved with and evidence suggests they had no idea would happen, received their sentences yesterday, and are now looking at between 30 and 100 years in prison. This is more prison time than anyone received for January 6th. Prosecutors urged stiff penalties due to their “extremist beliefs” and Judge Reed O’Connor, a Trump favorite, explicitly stated he was giving maximum sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”

This is clearly intended to chill anti-ICE protests, with organizers now having to worry about being held responsible for anything that takes place at one of their demonstrations. It’s also scary for anyone who cares about the right to dissent.

This is a terrible moment for these folks, but they intend to persevere with their appeals, and we need to let them know we have not forgotten them. ✊🏿 The support committee has asked us to write letters to the defendants, fundraise for their commissary and continue legal fight, and hold noise demonstrations of our own in their honor. Let’s get more details here and take action to show our solidarity. ✊🏼

STAND WITH THE DISSENTERS

ICE is planning on selling off seven of the 11 warehouses they purchased to store our fellow human beings in the face of fierce local resistance in places like Social Circle, Georgia, where city officials physically locked up the facility’s utilities. But they’re charging forward with their plans in Surprise, Arizona. In addition to the usual threats to immigrants, this camp would be located right next to a hazardous chemical facility. It’s a disaster in slow motion.

State Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed suit to stop them. A high school senior has rallied her community against them. Who has been missing in action? The city government. As our friends at Eyes On Ice flagged, activists are so frustrated with their mayor and city council they’ve started pushing forward with an effort to disincorporate the city if they won’t step up. We can help turn up the heat on them, too. 🗣️ The National Day Laborers Organizing Network is calling on us to flood the city council’s phone lines and tell them to use every ounce of their power to oppose the ICE warehouse. Let’s let them know all eyes are on them – we can find contact info here. 🗣️

SURPRISE SURPRISE

✍🏾 Another warehouse project still moving forward is in Williamsport, Maryland, and has a public comment window open NOW. We can use these tools from Hagerstown Rapid Response to weigh in before WEDNESDAY. ✍🏻

ICE OUT OF MARYLAND

Yesterday the Supreme Court shot down challenges to Trump ending Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians currently living completely legally in the United States, saying the courts were barred from reviewing them and the President’s very public racist comments about Haitians were insufficient to show racial animus. They have paved the way for one of the largest mass de-documentations in American history. More than a million other TPS recipients are now at risk.

This is brutal, and our chances of successfully stopping it at this point are very small. But we are not going to surrender while we have any opportunity left to fight. The House actually passed a bill to preserve TPS for the Haitian community in April after a successful discharge petition, with 11 Republicans in favor. 🗣️ The Haitian Bridge Alliance is now asking us to contact our senators and urge them to push for a vote on S.4814 in the upper chamber. We can find language to work from here. 🗣️

CONGRESS *COULD* STOP THIS

⚙️ The International Refugee Assistance Project has pulled together more information on where we are with TPS by country and how folks can prepare if they are going to lose their TPS status here that we can circulate. We can also spread word about the Haitian Bridge Alliance hotline for legal and humanitarian aid at 619-693-8708. ⚙️

RESOURCES FROM IRAP

HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE HOTLINE

🤜🏻 And if we’re in an area with large Haitian and Syrian communities, this is a great time to connect with our local rapid response networks before their TPS is set to expire on July 27th. We can find one near us here. 🤛🏿

GET READY

Also in today's Rogan's List:

• Organizers got Jersey City to divest $265 million from Citizens Bank over their financing of the ICE camps - learn how they did it Monday, join the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition’s next day of action July 18th
• Trump proposes non-disclosure agreements for federal workers to keep his misdeeds secret - FINAL DAY to submit public comments to say no
• Stand with Kansas City tenant organizers and demand their landlord keep his word
• A state-by-state guide to pre-registering future 18-year-olds to vote
• This week’s judges to thank

During Operation Metro Surge, Enterprise Rent-a-Car rented over one thousand vehicles to ICE, helping them to abduct and terrorize our neighbors. Activists on the ground estimated they provided more half of ICE’s wheels. They’re profiting off kidnapping, and they should not be allowed to go on like it’s business as usual.

A group of organizers led by 18 Million Rising, the Stop Avelo Coalition and Sunrise is coming together to renew our efforts to put pressure on Enterprise to put the brakes on their collaboration with the deportation machine. 🙋🏿‍♀️ They’re holding a launch call for this new push TOMORROW at 6PM ET we can sign up for here. 🙋🏻

LAUNCH CALL TOMORROW AT 6PM ET

🤜🏻 They’ll also put together an action page here with tools to help us contact their CEO and main rental line to urge them to drop their ICE contracts (language here!), tools for organizing a protest at local Enterprise locations, guidance on how we can reserve and cancel bookings with Enterprise as an act of protest from home, and other steps we can take. 🤛🏿

TURN UP THE HEAT ON ENTERPRISE

Let’s join the call and this campaign against a corporate enabler!

Also in today’s List:

-  Demand the thug who ran over a Delaney Hall vigil attendee be prosecuted, show support to an Adelanto hunger strike leader facing a final hearing

-  California billionaire wealth tax has enough signatures to make the ballot - volunteer to strike a blow against inequality, billionaire power this fall

-  New Trump proposal would roll back protections against forever chemicals in our drinking water - comment by July 20th, sign up to weigh in at public hearing by July 1st

-  Tell Congress to oppose $57 billion in cuts to disability compensation for Iraq, Afghanistan veterans

-  This week’s judges to thank

As the hunger and labor strikes at Adelanto and Delaney Hall roll on, it’s important that we note these ICE captives are not the first to try this courageous and dangerous tactic and they won’t be the last. We saw hunger strikes earlier this spring at the North Lake ICE Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan. The now-deported Rogelio Bolufe launched a strike on his own at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico and after a retaliatory transfer did so again at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. Last week, we saw another brief hunger strike at NWDC, in what local activists estimated was the 17th attempt inside this camp alone. As these efforts move forward, we all need to be prepared to do what we can to act in support.

The folks at La Resistencia, a grassroots organization led by undocumented immigrants and people of color who have been caught up in the system, has been providing solidarity to hunger strikers at NWDC since 2014. ⚙️ They’ve written up a guide based on their experience on supporting strikes inside detention centers, which they just updated for 2026. Let’s check it out the guide here, learn from it and share it widely! ⚙️