Houston is a welcoming city! The city should not do business with a company that is awarded millions to keep families separated.

A border wall is an ineffective and wasteful solution to illegal immigration.

Raul is a husband and father of four children who has been mercilessly detained by ICE for over a year. He was separated from his family when he was detained in March 2017, and has recently been transferred far away from his family to an ICE facility in Colorado, despite the fact that he continues to fight his case in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, located in San Francisco, California. Raul needs your help. Raul has lived in the United States for over 28 years since leaving his home country of Guatemala. On March 22nd, 2017, he was taken from his family and placed in detention at the West County Detention Facility in Contra Costa. Shortly after the termination of ICE’s contract with a local detention center, ICE transferred Raul and many others to Colorado. He was transferred without his family or lawyer receiving advance notice and despite the fact that his case is ongoing in San Francisco, California. There is no reason for Raul to be detained. His family is suffering financially and emotionally while ICE has incarcerated him for over a year. He has missed holidays, birthdays, and other milestones with his family. Because he was prevented from attending his daughter’s quinceañera, she brought the celebration as close to him as possible and danced in her quinceañera gown outside of the West County Detention Facility as a part of a vigil held there. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/girl-dances-in-quinceanera-gown-outside-detention-center-her-father-is-being-held/). Sign our petition and demand that ICE release Raul today! In addition to signing this petition please call Raul’s Deportation Officer Parker Bell and the Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer, Bret Talbot, to demand Raul’s release: Parker Bell Deportation Officer Immigration and Customs Enforcement Enforcement and Removal Operations Aurora ICE Processing Center 3130 N. Oakland St. Aurora, CO 80010 [email protected] (720) 873-2899, Extension 251 Bret Talbot Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 3130 N Oakland St, Aurora, CO 80010 Office (303) 361-0723 x133 [email protected]

We are a group of immigrants and workers fighting for our rights. We want to feel safe in the city where we live and work. - Worker Committee, Pioneer Valley Workers Center Somos un grupo de inmigrantes y trabajadores que luchamos por nuestros derechos. Queremos sentirnos seguros en la ciudad donde vivimos y trabajamos. - Comité de Trabajadores, Centro Obrero del Valle Pionero

Salma arrived in the US from Bangladesh in 1999 and has not left since. She’s a crew member at a McDonald’s near her home and has dutifully checked into INS/ICE for many years- always having her work permit approved and getting told she “is not a priority.” This year, ICE told her to buy a one-way plane ticket to Bangladesh and leave the US by August 23rd. Just like so many hardworking immigrants who have followed the rules for 10, 20, and sometimes 30 years, Homeland Security’s arbitrary decision to separate this kind and loving family came as a complete shock. At a routine check-in on muggy day at the end of July, Homeland Security put a large black electronic monitoring device on Salma's ankle and told her to check in two times a week for the next 4 weeks. And then fly to a country she has not seen in 18 years, leaving her loving husband and college son behind. Salma has 2 pending immigration matters, including a court hearing scheduled for July 15, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. There is no compelling reason to break up Salma's family. It's unnecessary. It’s cruel. It’s un-American. Stand with Salma 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! Charla Nich, Vanesa Suarez, Terra Martin-Volpe CT Shoreline Indivisible, Unidad Latina en Accion, Action Together CT

For months, the Trump Administration separated immigrant parents and children at the border as part of their “zero tolerance” policy. Today, HUNDREDS of children remain apart from their families, and there have been horrendous reports of what has happened to them in detention, including children who were forced to drink toilet water and children who were sexually abused. Many of these children have parents who have already been deported. Many of these parents were lied to by border agents, and potentially coerced into signing deportation documents that they didn’t understand. The best way to make sure these reunifications happen is to bring these parents back to the U.S. They should be reunited with their children and allowed to pursue the asylum cases they came to the U.S. to seek. The Department of Homeland Security has separated these families. They need to make this right. Tell DHS chief Kirstjen Nielsen that we need to reunite immigrant families by bringing deported parents back!

As Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen has directed the “zero humanity” policies, overseen family separation, and bears responsibility for the 650+ children who are now permanently orphaned. Under her leadership, nothing has been done about the over 1300 charges of sexual and physical abuse filed against ICE by women and children in detention. Children torn from their families have been drugged while held in detention facilities. And now, we’ve heard about at least one child who died after being in ICE’s care. It’s time for Nielsen to resign.

My name is Tye Smith, I am an American citizen in desperate need of your help. I am married with a six year old daughter living in Cabot Arkansas for the last seven years. My wife Rosa Palacios is from Peru she originally came to the United States back in 2007 on a visitors visa and again in 2010 which is when I met her and we fell in love. She accidentally over stayed her visa by 11 days but didn't realize it until she tried to come back to the US a month after returning to Peru. She was detained at the airport and sent back to Peru. I went to visit her in Peru three different times the second in which we were married. Also on the second visit we got pregnant. Due to my medical conditions I could not stay in Peru with her for longer than two months at a time. I have had several back surgeries and have a Pain Pump that is inserted into my stomach which I have to get refilled every two and a half months. It was not financially possible to keep going back and forth over and over again and even if that was possible they do not have the technology to refill my Medtronics pain pump. Upon returning to the US I filed a K1 fiancé visa for her. I waited and waited and after not having heard and my wife being seven months pregnant, we decided it would be best to bring her to Mexico and live in a border town and I could work on the US side. After being there in Nuevo Laredo for about a month and actually seeing people get shot and hung from bridges we were scared to death not only for us but for our unborn daughter and could no longer continue with our plans to stay there waiting for her Visa approval. As much as we didn't want to do it this way, we decided to try and come back to the US and were detained at the border. Due to my wife being seven months pregnant they released her to me as long as we checked in each year so that is what we did. We checked in year after year with immigration waiting for our turn to go in front of a judge however when we showed up to check in last June with immigration they told us that she had to leave the US. We were caught way off guard. They said we have no right to have our case heard and she had ten days to leave the Country. Our attorney called immigration asking if there was anything at all we could do and was told that due to my medical condition being unable to take care of our daughter on my own we could file for a Stay of Removal. We were granted the stay last year and was told to file again each year due to my condition getting gradually worse however when our attorney filed for the stay last month we were told this week that we were denied and that she has two weeks to buy a plane ticket and leave the country. We are in desperate need of help, I don't know how much longer I am going to be able to work with my back being so bad and cannot take care of my daughter alone. Also, i have no family close by to help out therefore I need my wife more now than ever. I am asking you to please help, please look at her case they have given us a date of August 1st to have the plane ticket and August 11th to leave the country. Thank you so much, Tye Smith

Because it's the only American way that we can respond to this atrocity conducted by our government.

The families separated by Trump are essentially hostages. We need a national campaign to express our grief. Everyone is affected when our moral compass is astray!

American citizens are not monsters that want to steal children from those seeking a better life. This horrifying act by the current administration is cruel and unnecessary. I haven't been personally victimized by this action but as a human being and a parent I think we need to speak up!

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