Nearly 200 groups urge Biden to release migrants, close detention centers before Trump arrives

Nearly 200 migrant advocacy groups crafted a missive to President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding they adjacent ICE detention centers and see releasing detainees up of the Trump administration's program to reverse existent policy. 

The letter, which was besides "cc’d" to ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner and ICE main of unit Michael Lumpkin, called for "immediate enactment to protect migrant communities portion [they] inactive can" earlier their administration’s word comes to a close.

"In your remaining months successful office, you person an accidental to grant your stated commitments to the dignity and humane attraction of each people, including those who immigrate to our nation…"

Without naming President-elect Trump, the groups warned the adjacent medication is apt to travel "through connected his wide deportation plans."

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This photograph shows migrants astatine the confederate borderline encountered successful Arizona. (U.S. Border Patrol)

The groups warned that the determination would abstracted families and "upend the lives of millions."

Spearheaded by the Detention Watch Network, the missive included 192 different signatories, including the American Friends Service Committee, Americans for Immigrant Justice, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy astatine the UCLA School of Law, Human Rights Watch, Make the Road and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.

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By closing detention centers now, the consortium claims, it volition enactment a halt to alleged "inhumane and abusive conditions" that purportedly see inadequate nutrient and water, negligent aesculapian attraction and deaths.

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A radical claiming to beryllium from India sits successful the shadiness of the borderline wall, Aug. 29, 2023, successful Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument adjacent Lukeville, Arizona. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

"No 1 should beryllium detained successful these conditions. You [Biden and Mayorkas] promised to extremity the usage of for-profit detention centers by the national authorities and with implicit 90% detained astatine facilities tally by backstage companies, this is your last accidental to travel done connected that promise," the missive reads.

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The consortium said the incoming Trump medication should not beryllium talented an expanded strategy done which to institute their countervailing goals.

"To support families and forestall separations, you indispensable instrumentality each imaginable enactment to forestall the incoming medication from being capable to easy grow detention capacity, including by pressuring Congress to walk a reduced appropriation for migration detention."

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President Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas conscionable successful the Oval Office. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Third, the groups pleaded for merchandise proceedings to statesman with "vulnerable populations" similar migrants with carnal oregon intelligence wellness concerns and those that person been deemed eligible for parole oregon Temporary Protected Status.

"People tin and should beryllium capable to spell done their migration proceedings successful assemblage with the enactment of their loved ones and entree to ineligible support."

"Now is the clip to instrumentality decisive enactment to forestall catastrophe for millions of radical and debar handing the keys to an expanded and inhumane detention and deportation strategy to the adjacent president," they wrote.

Other officials crossed the state person besides warned against Trump's migration argumentation proposals, with Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson calling Trump a "threat" against "new arrivals and undocumented families… and Black families."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the White House and Mayorkas for comment.