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.

Everyone deserves the equal opportunity to get job positions and make a living for themselves. When young people come to America, it is often harder to find jobs or an education. But, if there is more funding put into DACA, then a path can be created that will lead them in the right direction.

A caravan of refugees has been walking as far as from Honduras all the way to the U.S.-Mexico border to escape their dangerous realities back home. They are forced to leave their homes because of gang violence, abusive governments, and more. Trump says they are criminals but he is wrong- they are families and people who are in search of a safer, better life.

Media outlets recently reported how Joe DePinto, the CEO of the 7-Eleven company, has called ICE on franchisees who have organized and filed complaints against the company’s controversial policies. The popular convenience store company, which grew into an American icon thanks to the hard work of immigrants and their families, was proud of its diverse staff and franchisees - right up until the federal government reprimanded it a couple of years ago after failing to handle legal issues of some well-known franchise owners. Now, the company's new paranoid CEO, Joe DePinto, is launching a full-frontal assault against any franchise he suspects of being a troublemaker or underperformer. Most notably, DePinto has planted hidden cameras and listening devices inside stores, handed franchisees’ personal information to the federal government so that immigration authorities could inspect their stores, and sent unmarked vehicles after certain store owners who complain about 7-Eleven contentious practices - which often eat into franchisee profits and force them to carry unsustainable inventories. By allowing Joe Depinto's behavior to go unchecked, 7-Eleven is demonstrating how far it's willing to go to abuse and intimidate the franchisees that helped build the company - especially those who are people of color or come from immigrant backgrounds. It is shameful for a company like 7-Eleven to allow Joe DePinto to demonize store owners who want to earn an honest living, especially by enabling him to use the same hateful and racist tactics Donald Trump uses to intimidate minorities. 7-Eleven must reform its abusive corporate culture immediately!

Donald Trump’s entire strategy during the 2018 midterm elections was to use immigrants to stir up fear and turn out his base. We called it the “divide and distract” strategy, and it failed. Republicans lost big time. Trump’s main target was the “migrant caravan”, a group of migrants moving north from central America, few of whom may ever make it to the United States. The migrants are peacefully looking for a way to escape the violence and poverty of their homes, but Trump falsely portrayed them as terrorists and criminals. To underscore his point, Trump sent more than 5,000 of our troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, even though they had nothing to do there. Our troops remain there even though — surprise, surprise — Trump has completely stopped talking about the migrant caravan after the election. Fox News went from 204 mentions of the caravan a week before the election, to a mere 16 mentions afterward. The migrant caravan has never been a national threat or emergency. That it was ever treated as such is a farce. Yet our troops continue to be stationed at the border for NO REASON than Trump’s twisted political games. Tell the White House: bring our troops home from the border NOW.