My fellow Americans are suffering grave injustices because of their nationality and/or ethnicity. This goes against everything America once stood for.

The President has signed an executive order immediately ending the separation of children from their parents at the border. There is the SB 3036 "Keep Families together Act" being put forth to the Committee of the Judiciary by Senator Dianne Feinstein. Thank you, but we need accountability for next steps for these families traumatized by these separations. We need to know how families will be reunified and that they will be granted asylum in the US to escape the trauma they are fleeing.

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action is an interagency coalition of nearly 100 member organizations. We set standards and provide technical support. Based on our collective experiences, lessons learned, and accepted standards of care and protection for children, we urge all responsible parties to: • Facilitate rapid family reunification; • Provide mental health and psychosocial support to children and their families; • Ensure that administrative and legal procedures meet their best interests; and • Prevent further family separation by ending the use of detention. For the rest of the recommendations: https://alliancecpha.org/familiesbelongtogether/ If you agree: • Show your support for separated children by endorsing these recommendations: https://alliancecpha.org/familiesbelongtogether/ • Share them with your networks.

We will never develop solutions to this deepening crisis until we understand WHY so many find their countries unlivable. We call on the media to do their jobs and give context. Even starting in the 1980s will tell Americans much more than we know now.

I'm personally effected. A detention center is going in near my home. Outraged.

Update: Alejandra Juarez was deported on August 3, 2018. A bill has been introduced in the new Congress that will allow her to come home. Please sign our petition in support of the new bill. https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/bring-alejandra-home?source=c.em&r_by=18069385 Alejandra Juarez (Case # A077265754) is scheduled to be deported in August. She has lived in the United States for more than twenty years and has not committed any crimes since her illegal entry as a teenager. She came to the United States in 1998 to escape violence in Mexico. Since then, she has learned English, married a United States marine, raised their first daughter alone for two years while he served in Iraq, and continued to raise two daughters who are both U.S. citizens. She is a valued member of her church where she assists with their ministry to feed the poor. Alejandra’s deportation will cause great harm to her children who were not even born when she came to the United States. Her oldest daughter Pamela wants to become a doctor and now faces the likelihood that she will graduate high school and start college without her mother, who has always been her biggest supporter, at her side. Pamela recently started working to save up money so that she can visit Alejandra in Mexico. Her youngest daughter Estela is too young to be without her mother, so Alejandra’s deportation will essentially deport her as well, even though she is a U.S. citizen and this country is the only home she has ever known. Please allow Alejandra to stay in the United States with her children.

The International Red Cross inspects refugee and immigrant detention centers worldwide. We need to request them to inspect the immigrant detention centers including "baby jails" in the United States to asses access to food, water, sanitation, health care and violation of basic human rights.

We know that if parents are sent back to their countries without their chidlren, there will be no way to find them and return their children to them. Parent child relationship is the most sacred of all relationships and no state has a right to sever that for political gain. We must get this out to as many people as possible before any morE parents are deported. NOT ONE MORE PARENT DEPORTED WHOSE CHILD HAS BEEN RIPPED FROM THEM .

2,300+ children have been taken away from immigrant families at the US border. On June 20th Trump reluctantly signed an executive order reversing a narrow portion of his brutal policy that forcibly separated young children from their parents. However, this executive order has not directed the reunification of the 2,300+ children that have been taken from their parents by our government. Immigration attorneys and advocates and nonprofits such as the Texas “Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)”, are trying to reunite families individually. Massive amounts of money and time is needed for individual litigation. We as a country should not have to litigate each case individually. This petition DEMANDS that the government return all 2,300+ children to their families IMMEDIATELY. The US government has committed a crime against humanity. The government stole babies, toddlers, and young children from the arms of parents. This includes a woman who was breastfeeding her baby and had the baby physically pulled away from her. The parents often receive NOTHING, not even a slip of paper, when their children are forcibly stolen from them by the US government. The parents have no idea where their children are. Or if they will ever see their children again. These acts are unconscionably cruel and need to be rectified immediately. This policy is immoral, unethical, and must be considered illegal. We must acknowledge the truth of this despicable policy ... these children have been kidnapped. The US government must immediately return the kidnapped children! The government must also pay restitution to the victims for their pain and suffering. PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION and PLEASE forward the petition to all your friends, family and associates.

According to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 14, Asylum Seekers are not criminals. They have rights and we should accord them protections.

Traumatized people needed attention first as human beings. This is the responsibility of all human beings. The detained immigrants are at risk of illnesses that has potential to spread to others. In this day of international travel, no one is immune from disease outbreak. Mental pressure is suffering the same way as infectious disease. We have to act now as the detainees are counting down on the 20 day window before an undetermined fate.

This Trump Policy to separate children from their parents was a Donald Trump legislation and supported by his White House, Jeff Sessions, Kirstjen Nielsen, and the GOP. They are the ones who should be paying the bills for this disgusting and immoral policy not the tax payer of this country.