A caravan of refugees has been walking as far as from Honduras all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border to escape their dangerous realities back home. They are forced to leave their homes because of gang violence, abusive governments, and more. Trump says they are criminals but he is wrong- they are families and people who are in search of a safer, better life.

Media outlets recently reported how Joe DePinto, the CEO of the 7-Eleven company, has called ICE on franchisees who have organized and filed complaints against the company’s controversial policies. The popular convenience store company, which grew into an American icon thanks to the hard work of immigrants and their families, was proud of its diverse staff and franchisees - right up until the federal government reprimanded it a couple of years ago after failing to handle legal issues of some well-known franchise owners. Now, the company's new paranoid CEO, Joe DePinto, is launching a full-frontal assault against any franchise he suspects of being a troublemaker or underperformer. Most notably, DePinto has planted hidden cameras and listening devices inside stores, handed franchisees’ personal information to the federal government so that immigration authorities could inspect their stores, and sent unmarked vehicles after certain store owners who complain about 7-Eleven contentious practices - which often eat into franchisee profits and force them to carry unsustainable inventories. By allowing Joe Depinto's behavior to go unchecked, 7-Eleven is demonstrating how far it's willing to go to abuse and intimidate the franchisees that helped build the company - especially those who are people of color or come from immigrant backgrounds. It is shameful for a company like 7-Eleven to allow Joe DePinto to demonize store owners who want to earn an honest living, especially by enabling him to use the same hateful and racist tactics Donald Trump uses to intimidate minorities. 7-Eleven must reform its abusive corporate culture immediately!

Donald Trump’s entire strategy during the 2018 midterm elections was to use immigrants to stir up fear and turn out his base. We called it the “divide and distract” strategy, and it failed. Republicans lost big time. Trump’s main target was the “migrant caravan”, a group of migrants moving north from central America, few of whom may ever make it to the United States. The migrants are peacefully looking for a way to escape the violence and poverty of their homes, but Trump falsely portrayed them as terrorists and criminals. To underscore his point, Trump sent more than 5,000 of our troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, even though they had nothing to do there. Our troops remain there even though — surprise, surprise — Trump has completely stopped talking about the migrant caravan after the election. Fox News went from 204 mentions of the caravan a week before the election, to a mere 16 mentions afterward. The migrant caravan has never been a national threat or emergency. That it was ever treated as such is a farce. Yet our troops continue to be stationed at the border for NO REASON than Trump’s twisted political games. Tell the White House: bring our troops home from the border NOW.

Dear Mr. Benioff, In solidarity with the thousands of undocumented immigrants who live in fear for their lives everyday, we, students at Stanford, pledge to refrain from interviewing with Salesforce until it fully withdraws from its contract with Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to modernize its staff recruiting process, manage border activities, and engage with citizens. Your support for San Francisco’s homeless funding measure, Prop C, while helpful to the thousands of unhoused people in San Francisco, does not exculpate you from the harm your company continues to inflict on undocumented immigrants by hiring more Border Patrol agents. Advocacy organizations like Mijente and RAICES--led by and serving undocumented people--have explicitly and consistently asked you to cancel this contract and you have refused, citing that none of this technology enables the separation of families. Unfortunately, family separation has been a hallmark outcome of this deportation machine for years. You have prided yourself on “disrupting” social good in the tech world. Providing this software to CBP is not “disrupting” anyone’s world except those risking their lives to escape violence. What if instead of guns and your software, Border Patrol agents were armed with food and water for migrants making the trek to seek asylum? And what if instead of providing the software to CBP you opened an office in Honduras and employed people there? We are asking you to draw a line in the sand for the ethics of technology, where the racist head of our country cannot. Come to the right side of history and cancel the contract.

The Trump Administration is seeking billions of dollars for the southern border wall, border technology, and more agents. Each of these asks is unacceptable. The wall is a hateful symbol of exclusion, and coupled with increased technology, will further militarize and surveil border communities. CBP agents and officers are at the front lines of Trump’s aggressive family separation policy and operate with little to no accountability for the abuses and terror that they inflict upon those arriving to our border and those that live in border communities. ICE detains hundreds of thousands of immigrants behind bars every year. This oppressive, inhumane and deadly system of detention continues to grow bigger, less transparent and less accountable. ICE continues to overspend their appropriated funds while counting on bailouts from Congress. All the while they are expanding detention and becoming increasingly secretive about their work. Hunger strikes, reports of physical and sexual abuse, and retaliation against those that speak out highlight the worsening conditions and opposition to treating immigrants with dignity. CBP and ICE have shown that more funding leads to more harm. Increasing funding to either of these agencies is unworthy of discussion. We demand that you stop the growth of the harmful detention and deportation machine and support significant cuts to ICE and CBP.

Donald Trump likes to use inciting, incendiary language to target his political opponents. There are "criminals and unknown Middle Easterners mixed in" with an approaching migrant caravan, he tweeted, and they'd "better be stopped." This kind of language has already led to horror. Last week, a fan of Donald Trump and Fox News sent out a series of pipe bombs targeting political and philanthropic leaders for assassination. The most vicious and lethal anti-Semitic hate crime in American history was carried out at a Pittsburgh synagogue, by a shooter ranting about the migrant caravan. Instead of bringing the country together, Donald Trump has responded by throwing a match on the kindling. Again. Rather than tamping down on racial polarization and hate speech, Donald Trump is doubling down — pointing fingers, stoking fears, and inflaming passions. Tomorrow night, he will give a speech cracking down on the border and demagoguing against migrants seeking a safer place to live. There are already extremist groups talking about meeting the migrants on the border with guns and violence. This speech will push our country further toward the brink. Please tell Donald Trump: CANCEL this speech. A small group of refugees fleeing instability in Central America does not represent an existential threat to us, the strongest nation on earth. But forces of division, hatred, and violence might.

ICE should not be tipped off in this manner by complicit hotels, much less gathering personal, private information in such a backhanded, unscrupulous manner.

This is a non-partisan issue to redistribute the power to determine the Refugee Admissions Ceiling in the United States. As of July 19, 2018 there are 68.5 million forcibly displaced people around the globe, 25.4 million of which are refugees and 3.1 million of which are asylum-seekers. Ever since the Refugee Act of 1980, the Executive Branch has been required to set a limit on the number of refugees admitted into the country, however, with out any checks from either the Legislative or Judicial branch, the Executive Branch has an imbalance of power in determining this limit. This coming year, as refugee rates are growing, an unprecedentedly low 30,000 person limit has been proposed--34,000 people less than the average limit over the last 5 years. We must redistribute this power to create a more balanced process by which the Refugee Admissions Ceiling is determined.

For federal employee retirees who are victims of a natural disaster or other hardship, and are prohibited from hardship withdrawals from their TSP because of current regulations. I and my family are victims of Hurricane Florence and have been rejected for FEMA aid, and a government SBA loan would only add to my current debt situation. I am a retired veteran.

OUR VETERANS WITH HONORABLE DISCHARGE AND WITH/WITHOUT SERVICE CONNECTED SERVICE ARE BEING DEPORTED, THEIR FAMILIES SEVERED AND VETERANS ADMINISTRATION BENEFITS STRIPPED AWAY. THIS DESERVES OUR ATTENTION BECAUSE IT AFFECTS ALL VETERANS WITH MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ALL THE SAME. THIS IS TO PETITION ON BEHALF OF http://www.deportedveteranssupporthouse.org/

Thousands of migrant children are being detained in detention facilities in the United States. These children were either ripped away from their families or were by themselves when they were trying to come to this country for a better life. Children do not deserve to be treated like this and everyone deserves a chance to come to this country to have a better life.

How can Americans stand by, day by day while young unaccompanied children are living in cages & tents (surrounded by strangers instead of family) by our Federal government who has no plan for re-unification with their parents. These children will never be the same. Close down these horrible kid-prisons and re-unite them NOW!!