Another child's life. Gone while in custody of the United States Government. A teenager from Guatemala was being warehoused at one of the Southwest Key facilities — facilities where charges of child abuse have been raised repeatedly over the past year — and became very sick. He was dead a few days later. He had been in United States custody for 10 days. He is the third child to die in federal custody over the last six months. Seven year old Jakelin Caal Maquin died in December. Eight year old Felipe Alonzo-Gomez died a couple of weeks later. No more.

Sunset Park has the largest, working-class industrial waterfront in Brooklyn, but Industry City wants to turn it into a playground for the rich. Industry City wants to change current zoning to build large chain retail stores and luxury hotels, which may lead to luxury housing. We must protect long-time residents, workers, and small, locally-owned businesses from rising rents and displacement. This is our neighborhood. We should be deciding the future of our waterfront and neighborhood, not private developers like Industry City. Sunset Park tiene la costa de agua industrial más grande. La comunidad de Sunset Park cuenta con una población de personas mayormente de clase obrera y bajo ingreso en Brooklyn. Descaradamente los patrones de Industry City quieren destruir nuestra comunidad, y convertirlo en un patio de recreo para los ricos. Mediante el mecanismo de rezonificación ellos desean cambiar la zonificación actual para construir grandes cadenas de tiendas minoristas y hoteles de lujo, lo que puede llevar a viviendas de lujo. Debemos proteger a los residentes, trabajadores y pequeñas empresas de propiedad local desde hace mucho tiempo del aumento de alquileres y desplazamientos. Este es nuestro barrio. Deberíamos decidir el futuro de nuestra línea de costa y vecindario, no de desarrolladores privados como Industry City. Protect Sunset Park is a coalition of individuals and organizations representing residents, workers, students and small businesses. We are independent from outside groups. Join us and stay informed. Contact us: [email protected] --- Proteja a Sunset Park es una coalición de individuos y organizaciones que representan a residentes, trabajadores, estudiantes y pequeñas empresas. Somos independientes de grupos externos. Únete a nosotros y mantente informado. Contacte a nosotros: [email protected]

We as citizens of conscience are appalled and sickened by the deplorable and despicable actions of this administration towards the refugee children and their families. It is well documented that the human brain keeping development until we reach the age of 21 and traumatic events impair the brain’s functioning and can lead to permanent brain damage with high incidences of life ling depression and anxiety. There is nothing more traumatic than a child being separated from its parents. Children are being kept in cages, there are multiple reports of sexual abuse (178 confirmed cases perpetrated by staff, 1,303 of peer on peer) and physical abuse compounding the trauma of being separated from their parents. Children are missing out on critical developmental opportunities for education and socialization. Over 1,500 of the separated children are lost, this administration that separated the children from their families has no idea where these children are. This administration was warned by experts in the field of childhood development that this policy of separating children from their families would cause great and irreparable harm to the children and yet this administration chose to promulgate this policy as a deterrent because of the harm it would cause. This is the very definition of evil. We the undersigned, citizens in the United States of America, implore our government to do everything in its power to: halt the separation of refugee children from any family member when they ask for asylum at our borders; immediately reunite children currently being held in what amount to concentration camps with their families; investigate all allegations of abuse on behalf of the children being held in said camps and detention centers and hold those accountable to the letter of the law and; make preparations to ensure citizen oversight of the camps and detention centers immediately.

Last Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr issued an order that reverses current immigration policy. This order directs immigration judges to deny migrants a chance to post bail. This would affect adult asylum seekers traveling alone who enter this country at a place other than an established port of entry from being allowed a bond hearing regardless of whether or not they pass a credible fear interview. This order, expected to go into effect in 90 days allowing ICE time to increase bed space, will unilaterally expand mass incarceration. Forcing thousands of people to languish in public and private detention facilities is a design to cause asylum seekers to give up hope and return to the very situations from which they flee. Such a ruling flies in the face of the 1951 Refugee Convention that prohibits the penalizing of asylum seekers based on their manner of entry.

According to the Texas monthly, there are approximately 1.68 million undocumented immigrants residing in Texas. i was born in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas where there are over 200,000 undocumented immigrants that have fled from the dangers in Mexico in attempt to start a better life in the U.S. Many of these people, once they complete high school or college, they are unable to get a job based of their status in the U.S. Seeing these people work hard on a daily basis nonstop and then watching them leave back to Mexico is heartbreaking. But if they were to be granted the status based off of their hard work and effort and proof of wanting be a good asset to the country. If done like this, it would be a great common ground for both the Liberal and Conservative standpoints.

I'm starting this petition because I am an immigrant who has been affected by these immigration events that have happened in the past few years. Also, after doing some research, I found all the benefits that an open border policy could bring to the U.S.

Dozens of Trump administration officials—including recently-resigned DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen—were responsible for planning, implementing, and defending the horrific family separation policy. After these officials leave government, they shouldn't be able to take refuge in America's corporate corner offices and boardrooms. Children were torn away from their parents and placed in cages. It was an image the Trump administration hoped would send a message to migrant families heading north for asylum: if you come here, this could happen to you. The cruelty of the policy was matched only by the incompetence of its execution. Administration officials did not keep the records needed for reuniting families, nor did they properly vet employees responsible for looking after these children. Because of their negligence, children have been physically abused. Because of their negligence, children have been sexually assaulted. Because of their negligence, children have died. Their inaction and negligence did not happen in a vacuum. Senior members of the Trump administration let this happen and they should be held accountable, not rewarded.

Secretary Nielsen recently wrote to Congress asking for additional funding for Trump's deportation force—even though the Department of Homeland Security has received over two billion dollars that they are choosing to not use for humanitarian needs at the border. She even asked for legislation to terminate established protections for unaccompanied children and families. The Trump administration is pushing its racist, anti-immigrant agenda by choosing to treat people inhumanely at the border in order to demand more money and increased power for its deportation force. We cannot allow this to happen. America's immigration agencies—ICE and CBP—are broken by design. These agencies are built on fear and harm, separating families and violating the human rights of those seeking a better life and safety in America. We need an immigration system that welcomes and cares for people, a system rooted in humanity. But the Trump administration, and Sec. Nielsen, are doing everything they can to create a dramatic situation at the southern border to justify force and cruelty. Congress must defend the critical protections enshrined in the bipartisan Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) and the Flores Settlement Agreement and reject any action the Trump administration takes to undermine either or increase funding for these unhinged agencies.

Since the Trump administration has been in power, they have been separating families, holding children in internment camps, and purposefully violating international law. The U.S. has processes in place to treat asylum seekers and refugees humanely—but the Trump administration has intentionally made things worse for their own political gain. 
 Enough. 
 The Trump administration's plan is to create chaos, hurt people seeking a better life and safety in the United States, and then exhort the American people into giving more money to the agencies responsible for these abuses. These agencies have money—and they’ve chosen to spend that money on a vanity wall, inhumane workplace raids, and policies to harass immigrant communities. It is the responsibility of the UN Human Rights Agency to provide vital assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people. It's clear that the Tump administration is refusing to treat people with respect, dignity, and to uphold their human rights. It's time for the United Nations to step in. The world must bear witness to the crimes of the Trump administration and the pain these agencies are intentionally causing. The U.N. cannot allow the Trump administration to play political games with the lives of asylum seekers and refugees.

My wife and daughter are beautiful people. I married my wife 9 years ago. I'm American and made the decision to send my daughter and wife back to Mexico City to legally work on their papers since her daughter's father died of a drug overdose and alcoholism in Mexico City. He was very abusive emotionally and physically to my wife when she was 18 years old. They were safe to return since his death. Please help my family reunite, My daughter is a 4.0 - 10 grader taking college credits and is what her math teacher emailed me a mathematical genius. I'm American and see families approved at the border for asylum for their lives being in danger. My wife is married to an American and is not allowed??? I have not been with my wife for 6 years.

Selene Saavedra Roman was brought to the United States from Peru when she was 3 years old. She graduated college at Texas A&M and was granted legal status under DACA. She is married to a U.S. citizen and is on her way to full citizenship in the only country she’s ever known. But now, she is sitting in an ICE detention center - where she has been held for over a month in inhumane conditions - and threatened with deportation to a country she's never known. Selene had just started her dream job as a flight attendant when she was scheduled for a flight to Mexico. She raised concern with her supervisor, but the airline mistakenly insisted she would be fine to travel. Being new on the job, she agreed to work the flight. But when she returned, customs pulled her aside and detained her. After 24 hours in detention at the airport, she was transferred to ICE custody where she has been held in “prison conditions.” Immigration hearings are scheduled for next month, but they could end with deportation for someone who has done nothing but follow all of the rules. We demand that Selene immediately be released, reunited with her husband, and all charges against her dropped. The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA is mobilizing for Selene. Join us. Bring her home. You can read more about Selene's story here: https://thepointsguy.com/news/ice-detains-flight-attendant-daca/

The shooting at multiple mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand by a white supremacist this past Friday, March 15, has left our communities reeling, deeply traumatized, and in mourning. In a society already plagued by white supremacy, Islamophobia, and anti-Blackness, political leaders like Donald Trump have created the necessary political and cultural environment for such horrific, deadly violence—both through rhetoric and through policies. Congress needs to take real, concrete action to dismantle Trump’s white nationalist agenda. One important opportunity to do so is by repealing his Muslim Ban. This tragedy is another important reminder that white nationalism doesn’t always manifest itself in mass shootings—it starts with the everyday dehumanization of our communities. And nearly all of Trump's signature policies are specifically aimed at keeping Black and brown people out of the U.S. Whether it’s the Muslim Ban, the racist border wall, detention camps, or ICE raids, this agenda is straight out of the white nationalist playbook—in fact, many of these policies were written by or in consultation with members of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hate groups. Enough is enough. Thoughts and prayers from our representatives aren't enough—we demand real, concrete action. We demand that Congress repeal Trump's Muslim Ban.