Because we the people of this country need to stand against the White house from doing unfair acts like taking children from there families .

We are not helpless to stop this injustice. Do NOT stand by and watch thousands of children get taken from their families and detained in facilities without doing something. This is abuse of human rights and needs to stop NOW. Add your voice to the cry for justice!

In WWII I fought the NAZIs because of their disregard for human life. Now the US is doing something totally against the values that have made us outstanding in the world. This must stop.

It is immoral, inhumane, and illegal to rip children from their parents. President Trump has the power to stop this atrocity by simply making one phone call. Make the call!

Separating kids from parents when they are asking for asylum in the US is inhumane. On top of this, the enforcers do not currently have any methodical database to track these parents and their kids. And these parents will not have the means or the ability to find their kids in a foreign land. This is why we are asking Doctors Without Borders to intervene with psychological counseling and try to keep one database so that they could be reunited once this nightmare is over. The drug cartels are taking these innocent parents and kids as ransom at the Mexican side of our border. Hence the reason we are asking the Red Cross to intervene to try and keep these people safe on the Mexican side so that their applications can be processed in a safe, nonthreatening environment. All this inhumanity can be terminated by ONE person. And that is the US Attorney General - Jeff Sessions. And we are asking him to do that ASAP. Here is an explanatory video: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/rep-o-rourke-family-separation-inumane-un-american-1257041987911 Please share and sign this petition, Thank you

As both an American Citizen and mother of two, I am appalled that migrant families who are seeking asylum in the United States from the atrocities being committed within their own countries are having their children separated from them. These children are being placed into detention centers with no parental contact and their parents have no knowledge of where their children are being held, the conditions they are being held in or whether or not their children are alive and well. ICE officials and the Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen refuses to disclose this information to members of the U.S. Congress and Senate. The United States Government, under the Trump Administration, is in breach of US Citizenship and Immigration Service Policy which states: "To obtain asylum through the affirmative asylum process you must be physically present in the United States. You may apply for asylum status regardless of how you arrived in the United States or your current immigration status." https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum/obtaining-asylum-united-states I implore the UN Security Council to investigate this cruel policy and demand the status of and conditions where these children are being held. Children should not be used as pawns against a Xenophobic immigration policy.

The number of children being separated from their parents at the border as a result of Trump’s anti-immigration policies has grown so large that the Trump Administration wants to create “tent cities” along the Texas border to hold them. These are children who came to the U.S. border with their parents seeking protection from violent conditions back home. Not only has the Trump Administration separated them from their parents, the Administration wants to start holding them in places that have been referred to as “prison camps” and “concentration camps”. This is inhumane and should not be tolerated. Children belong on playgrounds with family members who love them. Both parents and children who seek asylum in the U.S. deserve to be safe and free. Sign the petition and tell Alex Azar, the Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, that no child should be held in a prison camp.

Innocent children are being terrorized - under the false claim that by entering this country they and their parents create a security threat to the U.S. These horrors are being perpetrated by our government in the name of all Americans. Until we force our government to stop this brutal and truly heinous practice, we are guilty enablers.

**UPDATE** Thursday, June 14th Nelson received a 6 month stay of deportation this afternoon. This good news means that we can continue to fight to keep Nelson home! The bad news is the transplant surgeons will not give Nelson his new kidney unless he can guarantee to be home for one year of post operative care. The fight to keep Nelson home so he can get his life saving surgery (and live his life with his wife and children) continues! #KeepFamiliesTogether! The brief history: Nelson has lived in the Stamford, Connecticut for 30 years and is married to a U.S. citizen. He is a dad and a homeowner. Nelson’s wife Patricia successfully petitioned for him to stay in the US, but an ICE judge ignored the USCIS recommendation to approve his green card and wants him deported.    In what seems like a never-ending downpour of anti-immigrant, anti-family sentiments and actions at the hands our government, this is yet another show of the inhumanity and callousness of ICE.   Nelson’s deportation order is a de facto death sentence. If he returns to Honduras, he will die. He gets dialysis in his home town 3 to 4 times a week- and this is what is keeping him alive until his transplant.   Join us in speaking up for Nelson.  Please sign this petition and share it with 3 friends. Thank you. Charla Nich, Gini King, Vanesa Suarez, Terra Martin-Volpe CT Shoreline Indivisible, Unidad Latina en Accion, Action Together CT

Tearing children away from their families does not deter immigration or migration, it only creates trauma in multiple generations of human families. Stop this horrific practice immediately. For information on the Keeping Families Together Act, click here: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=4C678FA3-F7A5-42FF-B8B5-D7ED4DD1F3CB

Earlier this month, two hundred federal immigration enforcement agents descended upon Corso’s Flower and Garden Centers in Sandusky and Castalia, Ohio, with machine guns and K-9 dogs as helicopters circled overhead. They were there to arrest and deport Ohioans who work hard and love their families, accusing them of immigration violations. All told, 114 Corso’s workers were arrested by ICE during the aggressive, SWAT-style operation. Just a week later, they struck AGAIN, this time at a meatpacking plant in Massillon, Ohio, where another 100 agents arrested more than 100 workers. Kirstjen Nielsen is the head of the Department of Homeland Security, and is responsible for running Donald Trump’s turbo-charged deportation machine. Rebecca Adducci is the Field Office Director for Detroit ICE, with control over operations in Michigan and Ohio. Not only is she responsible for utilizing an outrageous show of government force in order to arrest and deport humble workers, but she has presided over the systematic separation of Ohio and Michigan families ever since the Trump Administration took office. Raids like the one in Sandusky, Castalia, and Massillon are destroying Ohio and Michigan families, and those of us who disagree with what’s happening need to stand up and say it! Sign this petition to tell DHS Chief Kirstjen Nielsen and ICE Field Director Rebecca Adducci to rein in their excessive use of force and deportation practices that destroy families.

Last week I introduced legislation to prohibit the Trump Administration from indiscriminately separating immigrant kids from their parents. I believe Congress has a moral obligation to stand up and stop the federal government from ripping children from the arms of their parents. We should be in the business of keeping families together, not tearing them apart. Many of these families are fleeing violence and instability in search of security and safety here in the United States. It’s wrong to traumatize these kids further. Congress must take action right now.