Immigrant Rights Group Demands ICE Restore Detention Hotline Featured in 'OITNB'

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Freedom for Immigrants, along with their co-founder/executive director Christina Fialho, on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit to reinstate its National Immigration Detention Hotline, which was name-checked on the seventh season of OITNB

"ICE shut down our hotline because we drew attention to the inhumanity of immigration detention," says the group about their national hotline, which was name-checked in the final season of Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black.'

Freedom for Immigrants, along with their co-founder/executive director Christina Fialho, on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit to reinstate its National Immigration Detention Hotline, which was name-checked onwhen the seventh season, which was released on July 26, tackled the national immigration crisis. The hotline has been a free and confidential resource offering legal assistance to people who are in immigration detention since 2013 and was shut down Aug.

 

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