Stopping For-Profit Immigrant Detention in Illinois

Jesse Hoyt, a recent University of Illinois graduate and west suburban organizer with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, gave a first-hand account of campaigns against proposed CCA-run immigrant detention centers in Crete and Joliet, Illinois. He described Secure Communities and deportation statistics, the failed state bill SB1064 (lost by one vote in the Illinois House), and how Black and Latino community coalitions, door-knocking and local elections defeated the Joliet proposal. Fall 2013 series "Rethinking Security: Beyond Mass Incarceration." James Kilgore of CU Citizens for Peace and Justice introduced him and linked the talk to the local campaign against jail expansion; a long Q&A followed.