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At Independence Hall, activists call for end of ICE contract and the plan for a women’s prison

“We believe that no one should be incarcerated for being a migrant,” said Adrianna Torres-Garcia, of the Free Migration Project.

Steve Paul talks to a crowd in front of Independence Hall during a call at to President Biden to end the ICE contract in Berks County, where the latest plan for the facility where immigrant families were held is to reopen it as a prison for immigrant women on Saturday, May 25, 2020.
Steve Paul talks to a crowd in front of Independence Hall during a call at to President Biden to end the ICE contract in Berks County, where the latest plan for the facility where immigrant families were held is to reopen it as a prison for immigrant women on Saturday, May 25, 2020.Read moreYONG KIM / Staff Photographer