Freedom Vigils: Press and Visuals
PRESS RELEASES:
October 19, 2025
Week 12 of Vigils at Alligator Alcatraz: When the Constitutional rights of immigrants are undermined, they are undermined for us all.October 12, 2025
Week 11 of Vigils: DOJ admits detainees do not all have deportation orders, leaders of faith and conscience say, stop the lies and free them all.October 9, 2025
Week 10 of Vigils: Amid Government Shutdown leaders of faith and conscience say ICE operations are not essential, they are “cruelty in action.”September 28, 2025
Week 9 Vigils Leaders of Faith and Conscience condemn the indefinite detention of immigrants and the disappearance of more than 800 people from Alligator AlcatrazSeptember 21, 2025
Week 8 Vigil outside Alligator Alcatraz: Desperate calls for help with medical emergencies, violations of attorney-client privilege, 800 detainees have fallen “off the grid”: Human rights leaders and clergy say enough! Shut it down!September 14, 2025
Week 7: Alligator Alcatraz “open for business” as is Baker Correctional; Youth and Leaders of faith and conscience say “Close the Camps! Free them All!”September 7, 2025
Week 6 Vigil: Appeals court ruling allows Alligator Alcatraz to continue operations; leaders of faith and conscience say shut it down! Free them all!
August 31, 2025
Week 5 Vigil: Alligator Alcatraz detainees brutally beaten by guards on Thursday; the Everglades detention center is a chilling blueprint for the rest of the US; leaders of faith and conscience demand its replication be stopped.August 24, 2025
Week 4 Alligator Alcatraz: Hundreds expected to attend interfaith vigil, demand an end to inhumane treatment and closure of facilities.August 17, 2025
Week 3 Alligator Alcatraz Vigil: Families of detainees and faith leaders warn of pending disease outbreak from inhumane conditions in detention camps.August 10, 2025
Week 2 Alligator Alcatraz Vigil: Faith leaders, family of detained will convene outside facility for vigil.
August 3, 2025
Here’s a great story from week 1 from News 7 Miami.









