We’re launching an urgent campaign to free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention, and the timing could not be more critical.

Leqaa is a Palestinian Muslim woman from Paterson, New Jersey, who has been detained by ICE for over 300 days. She was targeted because she exercised her constitutionally protected right to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Her protest arrest was dismissed. DHS still locked her up.

This past weekend, Leqaa was hospitalized while in ICE custody following a medical episode. This underscores the harsh and dangerous conditions of her confinement and raises serious concerns about her health and safety while detained.

We need every single person in our community to act now.

Here’s what we’re asking you to do today, and every day, until Leqaa is released:

• Call and email your Members of Congress and demand they publicly pressure DHS to release Leqaa
• Amplify Leqaa’s experience on social media; do not let her story be buried. 
• Join our Free Leqaa Power Hour on Wednesday, February 18th, at 1 pm EST to hear from speakers and collectively make calls for Leqaa. 

Public pressure works but only if it’s loud, sustained, and impossible to ignore. Members of Congress and the DHS need to be hearing from us every single day. Leqaa has already paid an unacceptable price for exercising her constitutional rights. Her hospitalization makes clear that waiting is not an option.

Advocacy is not a crime. Protest is not grounds for detention. Leqaa must be released immediately. 

History shows that pressure works only when people refuse to let up, and that’s what this moment demands from all of us.