Tell ICE: End the Otero Contract

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Over the last decade, the ACLU of New Mexico, immigrants’ rights organizations, and news outlets have documented widespread medical neglect, sexual abuse, retaliatory uses of solitary confinement, suicide attempts, and deaths at Otero County Processing Center, an immigration detention facility run by the Management and Training Corporation (MTC). The ACLU has also intervened on multiple occasions, filing lawsuits and writing demand letters on behalf of immigrants detained there.

Despite Otero County Processing Center’s extensive record of civil rights violations and inhumane treatment, in the middle of a pandemic ICE signed an agreement that guaranteed the private prison corporation nearly $2 million a month. The temporary agreement, which went into effect Sept. 1, 2020, guaranteed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would pay MTC for 500 beds at the Otero County Processing Center, regardless of how many people were detained there.

That agreement is currently under negotiation. We need your help to ensure ICE does not extend the agreement.

Message Recipients: Juan Acosta, ICE and Glenn Westcott, ICE

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The Management and Training Corporation’s record of civil rights violations and inhumane treatment at Otero County Processing Center is extensive. Despite a documented history of cruelty and violence, ICE awarded MTC a lucrative agreement last September, which resulted in nearly $2 million monthly in profits. I am writing to urge you not to extend this agreement.

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ICE should not reward MTC’s ongoing abuse and neglect with a lucrative contract. ICE must decline to extend its current agreement with MTC, which has allowed the private corporation to profit extensively off of human misery.

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Tell ICE: End the Otero Contract

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