Undocumented Immigrants Block Alabama Detention Center

The seven were arrested.

By Aura Bogado Mar 24, 2014

Seven undocumented immigrants working with the #Not1More campaign, chained themselves and blocked the entrance to the Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama for several hours today.

Etowah has long been considered one of the worst immigrant detention centers in the country. In a phone call recorded by Detention Watch Network, one detainee named Oscar Quintero describes the facility as "a concentration camp for immigrants:"

The seven activists, Teresa Flores, Carlos Ramos, David Comparan, Evelyn Servin, Gabriel Machabanski, Monica Hernandez and Gwendolyn Ferreti Manjarresz, were all arrested; the group Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice is raising money for their release on bond.