{"id":267301,"date":"2026-04-26T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267301\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:10:41","slug":"protest-targets-planned-immigration-center-in-socorro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267301\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest targets planned immigration center in Socorro"},"content":{"rendered":"

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 The Border Network for Human Rights and several partner organizations gathered Saturday, April 25 to protest plans for an immigration detention warehouse facility that would be built in Socorro.<\/p>\n

They also gathered to protest and draw attention to existing detention facilities, like Camp East Montana which operates on Fort Bliss property.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Edith Montero\/KTSM<\/p>\n

The groups met in Ysleta for a caravan and then gathered at Cougar Park in Socorro.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are denouncing that people are actually making a profit out of immigration detention, and there is an expansion of immigration facilities and detention centers,\u201d said Fernando Garcia, executive director for the Border Network For Human Rights (BNHR).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is part of the so-called massive deportation strategy \u2014 illegally that the government is doing throughout the country,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n

Garcia said they choose Socorro as the place to have their protest and \u201caction\u201d to provide support for the community and oppose the expansion of detention centers into Socorro.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a discussion about the potential opening of a detention center (here in Socorro),\u201d Garcia said. \u201cWe are here to oppose it and not only oppose it but close the ones that have actually opened like at Camp East Montana.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we have previously reported, there have been at least three immigrant deaths at Camp East Montana.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have actually died because of the conditions at those detention centers (at Fort Bliss and elsewhere in the country),\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n

Joining BNHR in the protest were Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and the ACLU.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really powerful to have residents of the City of Socorro understanding the impact that this can have,\u201d said Marisa Limon Garza, the executive director for Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cOftentimes, these kinds of operations happen behind closed doors and then you can\u2019t really fight back until it\u2019s already gone live,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd so this has been an inspiring moment where residents of the City (of Socorro), the City Council and the mayor have really stepped up and modeled what it looks like to be resisting in a way that centers the values of their residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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