To: President Donald Trump
Justice for Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas
The video and audio accounts of the brutal torture and murder of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas in 2010 by US Immigration authorities shocks the conscience of everyone who sees them. President Obama, we call on you to ensure that an independent and thorough investigation of this homicide is expanded to include everyone who participated or failed to act to prevent it.
Why is this important?
My Irish and Portugese ancestors fled the famines and poverty of their countries to find a better life in America just like Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas did when he came here to California from Mexico many years ago. My ancestors helped to build their new country, like Anastasio did, and they faced some of the same opposition from a population that had forgotten their own immigrant roots, but they were not brutally tortured and murdered as Anastasio was in 2010 by our own Immigration authorities.
President Obama, we cannot be true to our founding values unless we can actually ensure "liberty and justice for all." We're calling on you to ensure that everyone involved in Anastasio's murder is brought to justice so that his American family, and every American, can continue to believe in our fundamental commitment to human rights.
President Obama, we cannot be true to our founding values unless we can actually ensure "liberty and justice for all." We're calling on you to ensure that everyone involved in Anastasio's murder is brought to justice so that his American family, and every American, can continue to believe in our fundamental commitment to human rights.