FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Thursday, January 21, 2021

MEDIA CONTACT:
Center for Popular Democracy
press@populardemocracy.org

New York, NY — The new Biden Administration released a first-ever order to institute a moratorium on deportations.  This policy was unimaginable in previous years, and it is the result of many years of organizing by immigrant communities who made visible to the country the inhumanity of our detention and deportation systems.  So today, we celebrate this victory, while also calling attention to the fact that detention and some ICE arrests will continue during this moratorium.  We look forward to working with the administration and Congress to address the longstanding and ongoing harms of ICE raids, mass detention, and deportations and to transform our ineffective and inhumane immigration enforcement system from one focused on punishment to one focused on facilitating compliance and safeguarding dignity.

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