Free Them All

<div>On Thursday, Latino Rebels <a href="https://www.latinorebels.com/2020/03/26/icedetaineeshungerstrike/">published a story</a> from the Southeast Immigrant Rights Network about how immigrant detainees at Richwood Detention Center in Louisiana have gone on hunger strike to protest conditions during the COVID-19 crisis. For this episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes Lorena Quiroz, a Mississippi immigrant rights organizer to talk about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeThemAll?src=hashtag_click&amp;f=live">the #FreeThemAll movement</a>.<br> <br> <em>Featured image: Richwood Correctional Center (Public Domain)</em> </div> <div> <br> <strong>TRANSCRIPT OF WHAT F SAYS IN SPANISH</strong><br> <em>The truth is that we have one request: our freedom. Why? Because of the situation that is happening on a global scale. People are dying from coronavirus. Even in the United States, a world power, a first world power, the hospitals are collapsed. Here we are vulnerable, you understand?<br> </em><br> </div> <div> <em>Here for us, if an officer comes in, gives us coronavirus, do you think that for us immigrants, the treatment they’ve given us during this whole time, is an adequate treatment? They’re not going to take a face mask from anyone, from any American, to put it on an immigrant. That means we are going to die. You understand? And ICE doesn’t guarantee us any kind of safety.<br> </em><br> </div> <div> <em>What we need, to not go on too long, is our freedom, because this is about humanity. This isn’t about an immigration treaty, this isn’t about a bond, or a parole, or an asylum case. This is about the fact that we are human beings. We aren’t animals.<br> </em><br> </div> <div> <em>And everyone is worried, and everyone outside is protecting themselves, and we are vulnerable. Who is protecting us? Who is worried about us? We have families. Mom, dad, siblings, daughters, sons. Our families outside are worried about us.<br> </em><br> </div> <div> <em>We’re standing our ground here. We