Contact: Bob Libal, Grassroots Leadership, blibal@grassrootsleadership.org, (512) 971-0487;

Michelle Brané, Women's Refugee Commission, MichelleB@wrcommission.org, (646) 717-7191;

Dotty Griffith, ACLU of Texas, (832) 291-4776 or dgriffith@aclutx.org

Media Advisory 

Immigrant Rights Coalition To Call For Ending

Detention Of Immigrant Children And Families

AUSTIN – A coalition of immigrants’ rights organizations will call on Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to end immigrant family detention at a press conference set for noon on Tuesday, January 10, at the Federal Building, 300 E 8th St.

Representatives from the ACLU of Texas, Grassroots Leadership, and Texans United for Families will speak at the press conference. The groups will unveil a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement calling for ending detention of immigrant children and families.  

The letter is also signed by the American Civil Liberties Union, America’s Voice Education Fund, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Center for Constitutional Rights, Detention Watch Network, DreamActivist.org, Human Rights First, Human Rights Defense Center, Justice Strategies, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, National Immigration Forum, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Religious Institute, Rights Working Group, Southern Poverty Law Center, United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society, Women's Refugee Commission, and more than 40 state and local organizations from across the country.

What: Press conference calling for end to detention of immigrant children and families. 

Where: Federal Building, 300 E 8th St., Austin, TX

When: Tuesday, January 10, noon