Because this Seven-Year Old, should have not died in hands of: U. S. Border Patrol Agents. She came to this Country, to make a living!

The Trump administration opened the prison in the Texas desert as a model for a string of prisons it wants to build along our border to house asylum seekers and other immigrants. It has manufactured a crisis by slowing the process of reuniting families, causing thousands of children to be incarcerated for long periods of time. In addition to the threat of deportation for relatives in the U.S., the threat that children will be imprisoned is intended to frighten people from coming to this country in the first place. This prison is a disgrace and is contrary to everything our country is supposed to stand for. If allowed to continue, it would set a dangerous precedent and could lead us in a direction that history teaches us we must not go.

Chicago Public Schools is rushing to set up a new student data platform using Aspen Student Information System by Follett. This includes data about student's citizenship and immigration status which could be misused and pose a threat to students and families, especially since CPS has suffered repeated data breaches. We want the implementation of Aspen halted until these fields are removed and the parties commit to protecting our children, their families, and their communities.

The cruelty is breathtaking. Our country has the capacity and policies in place to process asylum seeking families in a humane manner. Instead, the Trump administration is asking Congress for more money so that they can implement increasingly cruel practices to target immigrants both inside the U.S. and at our border. Nearly 45,000 people per day are held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - an unprecedented high that is resulting in spending levels above what Congress appropriated in FY18. Additionally, the wall is not just a hateful symbol of exclusion, it would kill wildlife by interfering with migration patterns and with their access to food and water; cause dangerous flooding; cause millions of dollars in damages to the environment and local businesses; endanger the lives of border residents; and stomp on the rights of private landowners resulting in a large government land grab that strips private landowners of their lands. America's families do not want our tax dollars, that could be used to improve our schools, childcare, and health care, being used to carry out the anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration. Congress must reduce immigration detention funding, exert oversight over detention practices, and direct the administration to restore less costly, more efficient, and humane community-based alternatives to detention. Tell the U.S. Congress to stand up against these cruel practices and to hold the Trump administration accountable by not financing the administration’s cruelty to immigrant families!

Wayzaro Walton came to Hartford, CT with her family in 1987, when she was 3 years old. Hartford is her home. She doesn’t remember any other place. She went to school at Rawson, at Dr. Martin Luther King, at Quirk Middle, at New Britain High School and Weaver High School. She went to Camp Courant every summer, starting when she was 5 until she was too old. She now works as a chef at a hotel, making breakfast for guests. Wayzaro lives here with her wife Tamika and 15-year-old daughter Azaiyah. They are the reasons she must not leave. In 2011, ICE agents arrested Wayzaro during community service at Hartford Community Court on Washington Street. If her suspended sentence had been one day shorter (364 days instead of 365) none of what followed would have happened. She would not have worn a monitor from 2011 to 2015. An ICE agent would not have confiscated her permanent residency card and her other ID papers. She would not have been required to check in regularly, and endure regular house visits. She would not have been referred to ICE during her check-in last month, when, with no explanation and despite no change in her situation, she got another ankle monitor and was ordered to get a one-way plane ticket to London for December 14. That’s next week. Wayzaro qualifies for a “victim" Visa, and for a petition for permanent residency, because of her marriage to Tamika. Those processes take time. She needs to stay. Her family needs her here. Her community needs her here. We need her here. Stand with Wayzaro and her family and stop this cruel family separation at the hands of the Department of Homeland Security. Tell ICE- STOP SEPARATING FAMILIES! Enough is enough! Hartford Deportation Defense Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance - CIRA New Sanctuary CT Unidad Latina en Acción

We are a family that has been directly affected by the bans put in place under the IRAIIRA of 1996. We need to bring awareness to the government and citizens alike how we are being affected and having to leave our country in order to keep our family together. We have had to give up our lives and our future to exile to Mexico.

One person becomes displaced across the globe every 2 seconds. By the end of 2017, there were 68.5 million individuals who were forcibly displaced, with 25.4 million being refugees, and 3.1 million being asylum seekers. There are more than 200 immigrant prisons and jails in the U.S. with corporations detaining approximately 15,000 people per day. The conditions of detention centers are appalling and can traumatize any individual who stays for a long period of time. As active citizens of the Land of the Free, we can and will not sit back and watch as the mistreatment of individuals continue. We must fight for what is right, for equality, tolerance and, more importantly, acceptance.

**Please leave a comment to say why you oppose this policy change. Your comment will be delivered as an official public comment.** On October 10, the Trump administration unveiled a new proposed regulation that penalizes immigrant families for simply accessing basic needs to feed their children and keep their families healthy. Under the proposed regulation, the "public charge" rule would allow Trump to establish a rigged immigration system where green cards would only be available to the wealthy few while immigrant families — many with U.S. citizen children — with modest incomes could be denied the possibility of a permanent future together. The Trump administration is required by law to post this unjust proposed order on Regulations.gov for 60 days before finalizing the regulation, to give the public the opportunity to weigh in. If people like you and I post comments against the order, we stand a better chance of disrupting or even stopping it. We have until December 10 to submit as many comments as possible. When the Trump administration attacks marginalized communities, he attacks the character of our nation. People nationwide have taken a stand each time this administration has launched an attack on the most vulnerable among us and, now, it's time for us to take a stand again.

The fact that Trump’s atrocities at the border have escalated to gassing toddlers is a CLEAR sign of the need for URGENT action!

We must fight to protect refugee resettlement and stop the administration from further decimating our proud legacy of welcoming refugees.

Wrenching these children from their parents was an incredible travesty in the first place. To let the anguish continue is no doubt causing deep trauma (especially to the children) that could become permanent if not immediately and effectively addressed. If their reunification is delayed any longer, perhaps those responsible should be held in contempt of court and dealt with accordingly.

This is an issue in our present day because families should be sticking together, especially immigrant/minority families, to deal with the crisis our country has to deal with today, Donald Trump being President. He should not be allowed to make such unjust regulations such as hauling parents away from their kids, and have kids living in cages as part of their chapter of horrors. It ruins the United States' image of freedom, liberty, and diversity. We already have restrictive national security that we have to deal with, but let's not have ourselves thinking that the separation of families is okay.