Alfred —
Immigrant toddlers and children are being separated from their parents and sent to detention centers in an effort to deter more migration.
This “zero tolerance” immigration policy is not working and more importantly it’s undeniably cruel. It has to stop.As a lawyer, advocate and father who works to ensure protections and access to lawyers for unaccompanied immigrant children, I’ve heard stories of children taken from their parents with almost no time to say goodbye.
That’s why I started this petition – will you add your name?My organization, Kids In Need Of Defense, worked with a brother and sister who had made the dangerous journey from Central America with their mother, and were separated from her at the border.
The kids cried telling us how they begged to stay with their mother; we later found out she had been quickly deported back to Central America.There is no law that compels the separation of children from their parents, and the Department of Homeland Security can and should stop destroying families immediately.
Watching what these children go through – brutally, and unnecessarily inflicted on them by our government – is a kind of agony I’ve never experienced. We cannot sit by and watch it continue.
Sign our petition demanding that the administration immediately halt policies that embrace this cruel and unnecessary practice.Thank you for taking action,
Cory Smith
Petition Starter
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