In the Media: Friends in Detention & their Families Speak Out
Articles, audio, & videos featuring our friends in detention & their families
A note about Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejía: his family & our friends who knew him have spoken out about his tragic, preventable death.

Photo: Pedro Rios, AFSC

Anthony Alexandre gives a live interview with UpFront from KPFA (8:30-29:34) about conditions at Otay, which he described to Reuters for this story on the cruel choice ICE and for-profit prison companies (e.g., CoreCivic, GEO Group, LaSalle Corrections, Management & Training Corporation) are forcing immigrants to make during the pandemic
July 7, 2020
Anthony Alexandre tells Democracy Now about conditions inside Otay Mesa Detention Center, describing Otay as an "unmitigated disaster"
June 30, 2020
Anthony Alexandre shares with Capital & Main a recorded message for Governor Newsom that OMDR played to the governor's staff
June 7, 2020
Jose Martinez Gonzales tells Capital & Main about deadly medical neglect at Otay Mesa during the pandemic
May 26, 2020
Women who wish to remain unnamed, and Anthony Alexandre, tell the San Diego Union-Tribune about filthy conditions in the medical unit at Otay Mesa
May 22, 2020
Laura tells CBS News that her son, Noé, is in the hospital with COVID-19, ICE won't tell her where her son is, and ICE won't let her speak with him
May 15, 2020
Anthony Alexandre tells Capital & Main that guards at Otay Mesa do not retest people known to have COVID-19 before returning them from isolation to their pods
May 15, 2020
Israel Rodriguez tells Houston Public Media about his case & conditions inside Joe Corley Processing Center; Israel's words provide vital context about the tragic, preventable death of Alonzo Garza-Salazar
May 15, 2020
[AUDIO] Reporter Elizabeth Trovall (Houston Public Media) describes what Israel Rodriguez told her about his case & conditions inside Joe Corley Processing Center outside of Houston: Texas Standard
May 14, 2020
La familia de nuestrx compa, Noé Pérez, le dice a Telemundo 20 que Noé está en el hospital por COVID-19, pero ICE no le dice a su familia en qué hospital se encuentra ni permite que su familia le hable
11 de mayo, 2020
Anthony Alexandre tells Capital & Main about his unit's hunger strike in protest of conditions in detention during the pandemic
May 9, 2020
Anthony Alexandre describes conditions in detention during the pandemic to NBC 7 San Diego
May 1, 2020
"I'm doing this hunger strike for this man that I saw in a wheelchair who is sick and cannot get back to his family...I am doing this because it is the right thing to do," Anthony Alexandre tells NBC 7 San Diego
April 29, 2020
Migrantes unidxs, en huelga de hambre para protestar las condiciones de detención durante la pandemia, escriben una carta a funcionarixs: La Jornada
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United migrants, on hunger strike to protest conditions in detention during the pandemic, write a letter to officials [subtitles in English]
26 de abril, 2020
Edgar Granski tells the San Diego Union-Tribune about his unit's hunger strike in protest of conditions in detention during the coronavirus pandemic
April 17, 2020
Nuestrxs compas escriben una carta colectiva a funcionarixs, están en huelga de hambre para protestar las condiciones de detención durante la pandemia de coronavirus: La Jornada
April 17, 2020
[AUDIO] Recording of Jose Martinez Gonzalez' need to support his family during the coronavirus pandemic on KPBS' San Diego News Matters (0:47-1:42)
April 17, 2020
Oswaldo & Heber tell Buzzfeed about conditions in detention during the coronavirus pandemic
April 10, 2020
Nuestrxs compas empiezan una huelga de hambre a Otay Mesa para protestar las condiciones de detención durante la pandemia; apoyamos con una protesta afuera: La Opinión
7 de abril, 2020
Nuestrxs compas empiezan una huelga de hambre a Otay Mesa para protestar las condiciones de detención durante la pandemia; apoyamos con una protesta afuera: La Jornada
4 de abril, 2020
Huelgas de hambre a centros de detención en Tacoma y Otay Mesa; OMDR organiza una protesta sobre ruedas para exigir #LiberenATodxs: Radio Bilingüe
3 de abril, 2020
Friends imprisoned at the detention center begin hunger strike to protest unsafe conditions inside Otay Mesa: San Diego Union-Tribune
April 3, 2020