Richard Morales, director of immigration policy for Faith in Action, a national faith-based social justice network, said his group works to frame the issue of detention contracts as an ethical failing. In Sacramento, its local affiliate, Sacramento Area Congregations Together, has lobbied, rallied and met with officials for more than a year to get its message across.
“It’s morally wrong to be profiting off the suffering of undocumented immigrants, and that is what is happening,” Morales said. “A lot of the work that we do is fighting these local contracts and local cooperation. … We believe that the one way we can slow down the massive deportation machine is by stopping the contracts and the local cooperation.”
