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Unbuilding Walls in the Immigrant Justice Movement

Sep 23, 202439 minSeason 6Ep. 12
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Episode description

Yvette Borja interviews Silky Shah, Executive Director of Detention Watch Network. They discuss why the immigrant justice movement needs abolition, the importance of transforming the economic infrastructures of local governments dependent on carceral systems, and how the growth of immigration detention and deportation was and is a critical part of the mass incarceration crisis.

Learn more about Detention Watch Network: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/ 

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