Please do not deport or continue to imprison the 50,000 children now incarcerated in Texas for illegally crossing over into the United States. They are refugees. They need shelter and protection and do not need to be treated as criminals. They are fleeing countries whose drug cartels routinely torture, rape and kill children who refuse to work for them. Sending them back to these countries should not be an option. Continuing to imprison them is a tragedy and a stain upon American integrity and honor.
Why is this important?
Almost 60,000 children are currently being held in disease-ridden, filthy facilities as prisoners. They are fleeing unbearable violence from drug cartels in their home countries. They do not need to be sent back to this violence, nor do they need to be treated as criminals. They are refugees.
