Freedom Vigils: Press and Visuals

PRESS RELEASES:

• March 22, 2026
  Week 34 Alligator Alcatraz Vigil: FL is spending $1M a day to operate inhumane Alligator Alcatraz

• March 15, 2026
  Week 33 Alligator Alcatraz Vigil: Grim Reaper Patches Worn by Guards; Rank Cruelty

• March 8, 2026
  Week 32 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is gone, but DHS’s horrendous abuses remain

• March 1, 2026
  Week 31 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: $608 million Human Rights Disaster

• February 22, 2026
  Week 30 Member of the Colombian House of Representatives to Visit the Vigil at Alligator Alcatraz as Clergy Denounce the Center as an Affront to God and Human Dignity

• February 15, 2026
  Week 29 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: To Immigrants with Love

• February 8, 2026
  Week 28 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: False Emergency Creates Real Human Rights Disaster

• February 1, 2026
  Week 27 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: No Sitting Ducks for ICE; Extend Haitian TPS

• January 25, 2026
  Week 26 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: From MN to FL We Oppose ICE Lawlessness and Cruelty

• January 18, 2026
  Week 25 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant

• January 11, 2026
  Week 24 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: ICE Out for Good!

• January 4, 2026
  Week 23 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: We the people hold government to account

• December 28, 2025

  Week 22 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Families and Leaders of Faith and Conscience Light the Way Together

• December 21, 2025
  Week 21 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Stop Tearing Families Apart and Threatening Houses of Worship

• December 14, 2025

  Week 20 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Unspeakable Cruelty

• December 7, 2025
  Week 19 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Stop the Torture; Extend TPS for Haitians

• November 30, 2025
  Week 18 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Families Belong Together

• November 23, 2025
  Week 17 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: We will not stay silent

• November 16, 2025
  

  Week 16 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: ICE must stop deporting people for working

• November 9, 2025
  Week 15 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: ICE operations are terrorizing and detaining children, leaders of faith and conscience condemn these practices as immoral and inhumane

• November 7, 2025
  El Pais: Sunday vigil at Alligator Alcatraz grows in defiance of Trump’s immigration policy

• November 2, 2025
  Week 14 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Disappeared in America - Hundreds to gather across from the entrance to denounce immoral and inhumane ICE operations, detentions, and disappearances.

• November 1, 2025
  This Weekend: “Disappeared In America” Actions Demand Justice and Due Process for Immigrant Families Thousands Across the Country will Hold Vigils, Protests, and Cultural Events to Stop Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda

• October 26, 2025

  Week 13 Vigil Outside Alligator Alcatraz: Government should uphold the law, not use shutdown to accelerate harm.

• 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 Alcatraz

• September 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.
  

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ALL PHOTOS BELOW ARE COURTESY OF PHILIP CARDELLA, MORE OF HIS WORK CAN BE FOUND HERE.