[applause] free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now free baba now [banging] they dont want to show us the warrant imagine youre in your pajamas and youre about to wake up for the day to begin theyre taking my husband. And they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though youve lived here your entire life. Or imagine youre baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what youre supposed to do you check in. And you go there thinking, then im going to go to work, then im going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and im going to live my life. And they end all that. No ban. No wall these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way thats in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. Weve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on whats wrong. [traffic sounds] what id like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to pick you up. They knocked on the
[applause] free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! free baba now! [banging] they don t want to show us the warrant! imagine you re in your pajamas and you re about to wake up for the day to begin they re taking my husband. and they take you away from everybody you love and you know, even though you ve lived here your entire life. or imagine you re baba sillah and you go to isis headquarters, do what you re supposed to do you check in. and you go there thinking, then i m going to go to work, then i m going to go see my babies at night, my wife, and i m going to live my life. and they end all that. no ban. no wall! these are racist laws that are tearing families apart in a way that s in opposition to everything that this country is supposed to believe in. we ve been on this track of creating this aggressive, relentless challenge to isis actions to shine a light on what s wrong. [traffic sounds] what i d like to do is to talk about the day when ice came to
over 75 million people in new york, california, illinois, and connecticut ordered to stay at home. the great shutdown of 2020 is underway. there are about 37,000 migrants being held at ice detention facilities, and concerns about the rights and health of migrants are growing as the coronavirus continues to spread across the us and the globe. what we re seeing is people that are terrified, people that are detained together in big groups. the ice detention centers, they re no different than a jail. it s really terrible to begin with, and then when you add in an enormous public health crisis, these places are totally ill-equipped to deal with that situation. during covid, we ve sought to accelerate what we typically do, which is partner with community organizations, people that are directly impacted by ice s conduct, and sort of build a litigation team around that.
and sort of build a litigation team around that. covid was the busiest time we ve ever had. we ve just been filing and filing and filing and filing. hi, sarah. we don t take as many individual cases. the cases we ve been doing now, they re for broader groups of people and they re seeking more systemic change. so the covid litigation that we filed in florida is a class action, so that covers everybody in three different detention centers. we filed one in washington dc that was intended to cover all transgender people in any detention center nationwide. you know, that s like among the most vulnerable and targeted groups of people in detention anywhere. we started this organization in january of 2019. we ve evolved, right? and so now we are a nationally recognized organization. we ve impacted the way that these cases are litigated around the country. so that s great, because what we really want to do