🛑 COMMUNITIES NOT CAGES
National Day of Action to Stop ICE Warehouse Detention
Hosted by: Indivisible Douglas County
Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026
Time: 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm PDT
Location: Douglas County Courthouse, 1036 SE Douglas Ave, Roseburg, OR 97470
📣 Speakers: We will have speakers at the kick off of this event. Come out, listen, and be inspired — then let your voice be heard!
✊ WHY WE RALLY
The Trump administration is waging a war on immigrants — and it's coming to our communities. ICE currently detains more than 60,000 people and has plans to expand to 100,000, locking them in massive warehouse facilities that could hold up to 10,000 people each. This is not just a national crisis. It is a local one. We are here to say: not in Roseburg, not in Douglas County, not in Oregon, not anywhere. ICE out everywhere!
- Detention warehouses are inhumane by design. Large-scale, makeshift facilities cut people off from their families, lawyers, and support networks — subjecting them to conditions built for storing products, not people. Abuse and death in ICE custody will only increase.
- Industrial warehouses are not fit for human habitation. They lack the basic sewage and water infrastructure needed to keep thousands of people healthy. Poor sanitation means serious risk of disease. No one is safe in ICE custody.
- Corporate greed is fueling the expansion. Companies are cashing in — from high-value property sales to lucrative broker commissions — profiting off the prospect of disappearing people into ICE's abusive detention system.
- ICE is bypassing local democracy. They are ignoring elected officials, overriding community opposition, and operating in secrecy — diverting resources from the real needs of our communities.
- We've seen this before. Warehouse detention echoes one of America's darkest chapters — the incarceration of Japanese Americans in the 1940s. It was wrong then. It is wrong now.
- Communities are fighting back — and winning. Towns across Utah, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Virginia, Mississippi, and more have stopped ICE warehouse plans through organizing and public pressure. We can too.
🎯 WHAT WE ARE DEMANDING
Our elected officials at every level — city, county, and state — must take a clear stand. No detention warehouses. No ICE expansion. No excuses.
1. Prevent any current or future warehouse detention plans — immediately.
Warehouses are not appropriate for human confinement. Any existing or proposed plans to convert industrial space into immigration detention must be canceled in full.
2. Reject all public funding, approvals, and local resources for detention expansion.
Public dollars and local infrastructure must not be used to cage people. Invest those resources in education, healthcare, and housing instead.
3. Require full transparency and community consent.
No detention project should move forward without public disclosure, community input, and full compliance with environmental review laws including NEPA. Decisions about caging people cannot be made behind closed doors.
🕊 SAFETY, DISCIPLINE & NONVIOLENCE
This is a peaceful, nonviolent protest, and that means:
- Everyone is responsible for their own de-escalation, as a safety team may not be available for every protest
- Do not take the bait of those who wish to antagonize us or our movement — disengage or remove yourself from conflict
- No physical engagement with counter-protesters
- No weapons of any kind
🪧 WHAT TO BRING
- Signs, banners, flags
- Justice-centered, anti-authoritarian, pro-human-rights messages
- Weather-appropriate clothing
- Water, sunscreen, medication
✍️ SUGGESTED SIGN MESSAGING
- NO ICE
- Crush ICE
- No ICE Offices Or Warehouses
- Build Community Not Cages
- Immigrants Are Welcome Here
- Say No To Hate
- We Are All Immigrants
- No One Is Illegal On Stolen Land
The area highlighted in pink on the detailed map indicates the designated protest area.
A core principle behind all Disappeared In America events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.