Latino youth prepare to fight back to shutdown immigrant detention center [Video]

I interviewed Alondra about why it’s important to shut down the Northwest Detention Center and the personal impact to her family.

What would you like others to know about why it’s important to shut down the Tacoma Detention Center? Why is bringing attention to it important?

It’s important to shut down the Tacoma center due to all the f**ked up things that are going on in there. About two weeks ago, someone recently passed away there, and it shows that people are not getting the things that they need or the help that they need inside there.

They’re held in a detention center where they get no food, they get no… like there’s no reason to be in there. Instead of investing our own tax monies into something that will do no help, or its just like a real f**ked up system in there, you know. 

Do you have family …