Join in our movement to fight the social and political injustices that target asylum-seeking refugees, placed in the menial circumstances of modern detention center facilities in our country. The treatment, time and duration of detention centers and the separation of families are all inexcusable actions that need to be addressed.
Why is this important?
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.
