Congress is finally responding to something communities like ours have been sounding the alarm on.

Tomorrow, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) and Detention Watch Network are introducing the Ban Warehouse Detention Act, legislation that would prohibit the federal government from converting warehouses into immigration detention centers. The bill targets a rapidly accelerating approach by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expand detention capacity by repurposing industrial buildings that were never designed to hold people. Tlaib will be joined by Delia Ramirez and Jesús G. García, alongside national advocates including Marisol Hernandez of the Detention Watch Network and Laura Spivak of Washington County Indivisible.

This matters because ICE is already planning to convert roughly 23 warehouses across the country into detention facilities, dramatically expanding capacity and accelerating a model that was never designed to hold people. We are seeing that playbook unfold in real time here in Washington County.

Next step: pressure.

Join us at Hagerstown Rapid Response and Washington County Indivisible for the National Day of Action on April 25. We're taking to the streets to make clear that stands for dignity, justice, and the rule of law.

We'll gather to:

• Show visible, public opposition to ICE detention expansion and the criminalization of immigration
• Stand in solidarity with detained immigrants and the communities fighting to protect them
• Demand that our elected officials defend due process for everyone

Bring a sign. Bring your neighbors. Bring your voice. RSVP now: https://mobilize.us/s/Yb4280