{"id":11848,"date":"2025-07-09T15:32:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=11848"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:32:42","slug":"over-200-people-rally-on-july-4th-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-and-against-newly-reopened-detention-center-in-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/over-200-people-rally-on-july-4th-in-solidarity-with-immigrants-and-against-newly-reopened-detention-center-in-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 200 people rally on July 4th in solidarity with Immigrants and against newly reopened detention center in\u00a0Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Courtesy of\u00a0nodetentioncentersmi<\/a>.org<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baldwin, MI, July 5th, 2025: Yesterday, on Friday, July 4th, over 200 members and supporters of No Detention Centers in Michigan, a statewide coalition, and partners including Cosecha Michigan, GR Rapid Response to ICE, and Lakeshore Rapid Response to ICE gathered outside the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin to demonstrate solidarity with the immigrants held inside and opposition to the GEO Group, the Florida-based private prison company that owns the facility.<\/p>\n

North Lake was last open under a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to incarcerate people who were not U.S. citizens and who had been convicted of federal crimes. After a chaotic three-year term in keeping with the prison\u2019s troubled history and with\u00a0the GEO Group\u2019s extensively documented record of human-rights abuses<\/a>, the facility shut down in 2022 as a result of an executive order from the Biden administration ending contracts between private prison companies and the Department of Justice. It then reopened weeks ago, in mid-June, as the largest immigration detention center in the Midwest.<\/p>\n

The rally included music and reflections on rapid-response organizing in solidarity with immigrant communities in West Michigan, as well as statements from the wife of a man currently detained at North Lake and from the group Asamblea Popular Detroit. Members of the latter group recently mobilized in defense of Marcos, a Honduran immigrant whose house was violently raided by ICE working in concert with the FBI, the DEA, and Detroit police. Noting that the tax bill which had passed the previous day in the U.S. House of Representatives would make ICE the largest law enforcement agency in the United States, organizers and advocates spoke out on Friday against the Trump administration\u2019s enormous expansion of detention and deportation, the history of colonial violence that undergirds it, and the GEO Group\u2019s long-standing exploitation both of targeted immigrant communities and of economic hardship in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n

Participants issued the following statements:<\/em><\/p>\n

A representative from Asamblea Popular Detroit said:\u00a0\u201cWe all need to step up and be brave for our families. Especially on July 4th, a day when many are celebrating the creation of this imperialist state, we have to rise up together against fascism, violence, and racism. We have to show that we the people do not want more detention centers. We want communities to be cared for, families to be able to work, play, worship and learn in safety and peace. Join with us in fighting for this world. Join with us in defending Marcos and others with similar stories. We need all of us to win!\u201d<\/p>\n

A woman whose husband has been detained at North Lake since late June said:\u00a0\u201cMy husband has been here for 10 years since he was a minor. He is a loving, caring, hardworking husband, father, uncle, and friend to many in our community. I appreciate everyone for listening to our story. I do not wish this on anyone because it is the most terrifying and traumatizing experience to not be able to help my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gema Lowe from Movimiento Cosecha GR said:\u00a0\u201cFor more than 500 years of colonization, this nation\u2019s history has followed the same cruel playbook. The only thing that\u2019s changed is that capitalism has evolved to find new ways to profit from our fear, our pain, and our humanity. They make money from our detention, our incarceration, and our suffering. And private detention centers, like the North Lake Detention Center from the GEO Group, are nothing but businesses built on human vulnerability. What we\u2019re witnessing is not new, but we have the power to decide when it will end.\u201d<\/p>\n

No Detention Centers in Michigan\u00a0is a statewide coalition organizing to abolish immigration detention and migrant incarceration in Michigan and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>M\u00e1s de 200 personas se manifiestan el 4 de julio en solidaridad con los inmigrantes y contra la reapertura del centro de detenci\u00f3n en Baldwin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Baldwin, MI \u2014 Ayer viernes 4 de julio, m\u00e1s de 200 miembros y simpatizantes de No Detention Centers in Michigan, una coalici\u00f3n estatal, y colaboradores como Cosecha Michigan, GR Rapid Response to ICE y Lakeshore Rapid Response to ICE se congregaron frente al Centro Correccional North Lake en Baldwin para expresar su solidaridad con los inmigrantes retenidos y su oposici\u00f3n al Grupo GEO, la empresa penitenciaria privada con sede en Florida, propietaria del centro.<\/p>\n

North Lake estuvo abierto por \u00faltima vez bajo un contrato con la Oficina Federal de Prisiones para encarcelar a personas no ciudadanas estadounidenses condenadas por delitos federales. Tras un ca\u00f3tico periodo de tres a\u00f1os, acorde con la problem\u00e1tica historia de la prisi\u00f3n y el historial ampliamente documentado de abusos de derechos humanos del Grupo GEO, el centro cerr\u00f3 en 2022 como resultado de una orden ejecutiva del gobierno de Biden que puso fin a los contratos entre empresas penitenciarias privadas y el Departamento de Justicia. Posteriormente, reabri\u00f3 hace semanas, a mediados de junio, como el mayor centro de detenci\u00f3n migratoria del Medio Oeste.<\/p>\n

La manifestaci\u00f3n incluy\u00f3 m\u00fasica y reflexiones sobre la organizaci\u00f3n de respuesta r\u00e1pida en solidaridad con las comunidades inmigrantes del oeste de Michigan, as\u00ed como declaraciones de la esposa de un hombre actualmente detenido en North Lake y del grupo Asamblea Popular Detroit. Miembros de este \u00faltimo grupo se movilizaron recientemente en defensa de Marcos, un inmigrante hondure\u00f1o cuya casa fue allanada violentamente por el ICE en colaboraci\u00f3n con el FBI, la DEA y la polic\u00eda de Detroit. Tras se\u00f1alar que el proyecto de ley fiscal aprobado el d\u00eda anterior en la C\u00e1mara de Representantes de EE. UU. convertir\u00eda a ICE en la mayor agencia policial del pa\u00eds, organizadores y defensores se manifestaron el viernes contra la enorme expansi\u00f3n de los procesos de detenci\u00f3n y deportaci\u00f3n de la administraci\u00f3n Trump, la historia de violencia colonial que la sustenta y la prolongada explotaci\u00f3n por parte del Grupo GEO, tanto de las comunidades inmigrantes afectadas como de las dificultades econ\u00f3micas en la zona rural de Michigan.<\/p>\n

Los participantes emitieron las siguientes declaraciones:<\/em><\/p>\n

Un representante de la Asamblea Popular de Detroit dijo: \u201cTodos debemos dar un paso al frente y ser valientes por nuestras familias. Especialmente el 4 de julio, un d\u00eda en que muchos celebran la creaci\u00f3n de este estado imperialista, debemos alzarnos juntos contra el fascismo, la violencia y el racismo. Debemos demostrar que, como pueblo, no queremos m\u00e1s centros de detenci\u00f3n. Queremos que las comunidades sean atendidas, que las familias puedan trabajar, jugar, rezar y aprender en seguridad y paz. \u00dananse a nosotros en la lucha por este mundo. \u00dananse a nosotros en la defensa de Marcos y de otras personas con historias similares. \u00a1Necesitamos que todos ganemos!\u201d.<\/p>\n

Una mujer cuyo esposo ha estado detenido en North Lake desde finales de junio dijo: \u201cMi esposo ha estado aqu\u00ed durante 10 a\u00f1os desde que era menor de edad. Es un esposo, padre, t\u00edo y amigo amoroso, atento y trabajador para muchos en nuestra comunidad. Agradezco a todos por escuchar nuestra historia. No le deseo esto a nadie, porque no poder ayudar a mi esposo es la experiencia m\u00e1s aterradora y traum\u00e1tica\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gema Lowe, del Movimiento Cosecha GR, dijo: \u201cDurante m\u00e1s de 500 a\u00f1os de colonizaci\u00f3n, la historia de esta naci\u00f3n ha seguido el mismo manual cruel. Lo \u00fanico que ha cambiado es que el capitalismo ha evolucionado para encontrar nuevas formas de lucrarse con nuestro miedo, nuestro dolor y nuestra humanidad. Se lucran con nuestra detenci\u00f3n, nuestro encarcelamiento y nuestro sufrimiento. Y los centros de detenci\u00f3n privados, como el Centro de Detenci\u00f3n de North Lake del Grupo GEO, no son m\u00e1s que negocios construidos sobre la vulnerabilidad humana. Lo que estamos presenciando no es nuevo, pero tenemos el poder de decidir cu\u00e1ndo terminar\u00e1\u201d.<\/p>\n

No a los Centros de Detenci\u00f3n en Michigan es una coalici\u00f3n estatal que se organiza para abolir la detenci\u00f3n y el encarcelamiento de migrantes en Michigan y el resto del pa\u00eds.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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