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About 150 people were gathered there that day. San Diegans have been assembling like this, outside of the privately-run federal immigration detention center, since November 2. That’s when San Diego Bike Brigade, a group that began patrolling local schools on their bikes to protect children from federal immigration activity, hosted its first vigil, now a weekly occurrence. What started then as a group of ten people is now growing each time they gather.
The weekly vigil is currently supported by a coalition of seven organizations, including the San Diego Bike Brigade, called the Otay Mesa Detention Collective. These include Borderlands for Equity, San Diego Families for Justice, San Diego Showing Up for Racial Justice, 50501 San Diego, and SD Activist.
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Organizers use this information to add anywhere from $20 to $45 to detainee accounts on Connect Network, an app that collects funds for detainees’ commissary. They add $10 to $20 to accounts on the GTL GettingOut App, which is used for phone calls.
L.A. TACO reviewed transactions provided by the Otay Mesa Detention Collective. There are four organizers who have become experts in using these apps: Tin-Lok Wong, Roni Ramirez, Mejgan Afshan, and Mariel Horner.
The collective has raised $15,380 since they began gathering donations in December, and redistributed those funds among 250 captives. On Sunday, over $3,000 was raised and about 50 A-Numbers were collected. Around six bottles and a deodorant were thrown over the fence that day, containing anywhere from one to nine A-Numbers.
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Her family was not aware of her whereabouts and they had no idea where she was at the time. Yelling her name to organizers allowed her to be connected with her family.
… more … $1 per day pay for prison labor … organizers speak multiple languages…
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