Otay Mesa Detention
Center Collective

No human being is illegal.

Migration is a human right. Community involvement and presence is stronger than fear and intimidation. People inside detention centers deserve dignity, regardless of their status.

We have built a continuous and peaceful weekly solidarity vigil since November 2nd of 2025. Through our coalition partnerships across San Diego County and the greater borderlands region, we have spurred a movement for change, cultivating a direct line of communication with detainees hence creating a clear pathway toward support for commissary and phone funds. Increasing public pressure and demand to shutdown all operations and ongoing urgency for local representative and congressional oversight access.

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We will continue to illuminate what is occurring at the Otay Mesa Detention Center because they depend on invisibility and public fatigue to continue their inhumane concentration like camp.