Detention Resistance
Our mission is to end detention and make visible the human rights abuses at migrant prisons, with a focus on closing the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC).
We work in accompaniment with those most impacted to abolish carceral logics and displace systems of domination.
Our current website is under construction. Follow us on Instagram for updates.
Borders and prisons are constructed, not inevitable.
We are driven to create another world, one based on nurturing and cultivating alternative ways of relating to one another within networks of community support.
As a grassroots collective of local volunteers, your donation goes directly to the people that need it—refugees and asylum-seekers imprisoned in or recently released from the Otay Mesa Detention Center (OMDC).
Our work includes
Accompaniment
Hotline
Visitation
Post-release
FunComms
Give hope. Give dignity. Give now.
Your Gift Means
Funds for detained refugees and asylum-seeker to purchase critical items like soap, medical supplies, and food from Commissary.
Phone calls to lawyers, family, and DR organizers.
Support like shelter, food, and transportation for recently-released migrants while they get to their destination and fight their case from the outside.
For larger donations, send us an email at [email protected]
Detention Resistance is fiscally sponsored by the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA); your bank statement will show PANA as the recipient of your donation, but the funds will go to DR. All gifts to PANA/DR are tax-deductible.
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