Shut Down Torrance County Detention Facility
This webinar will speak to the grave conditions in the Torrance County Detention Center located in Estancia, NM. Currently and formerly detained migrants alongside attorneys, paralegals, and advocates from Santa Fe Dreamers Project, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, Innovation Law Lab, ACLU-New Mexico, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Justice For Our Neighbors- El Paso, have all come together to share the horrendous conditions and treatment that migrants have suffered at this detention center. Torrance has failed an OIG inspection, and migrants have submitted two civil rights complaints, yet the facility still remains open. Torrance has proven time and time again to be dangerous, and now is the time to act and demand closure of Torrance.
Our panelists:
Orlando de los Santos Evangelista, formerly detained in TCDF
Ana Ortiz Varela, Innovation Law Lab
Rebecca Sheff, ACLU- NM
Taylor Noya, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
Leslie Gomez, El Paso Immigration Collaborative/ SFDP
