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Dear John,
Crowded conditions. Inadequate basic hygiene. Limited access to medical care and supplies.
Immigrants and asylum-seekers in detention were already facing enormous threats to their health and safety. But now, during the COVID-19 pandemic, these threats are exponentially multiplying.
That’s why Amnesty is ramping up our lifesaving rapid response efforts to advocate for people at risk — who will no doubt bear the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis — if we allow them to be forgotten.
Please make an emergency donation right now and advocate to ensure that immigrants and asylum-seekers in detention have access to care and safety at this critical time. Any amount you can chip in will make an impact.
We’re shining a light on families in detention. Just last week, a 7-year-old girl and her father — who had been detained in family detention in Pennsylvania — were released. Amnesty worked closely with the family's lawyers to develop a case action to free them. And after nine months of detention, Maddie and her dad were freed — just hours before we launched the action and after federal court pressure on ICE.
Maddie and her dad are the face of ICE’s reckless disregard for public health — and the negligent care and conditions in detention.
John, I know it’s an unsettling time for you and those you love. This global pandemic is impacting all of us around the world in unthinkable ways. Just imagine how scared and frightened detained immigrants and asylum-seekers are right now.
If you can, please support our work ensuring that human rights are at the center of the pandemic response — and that immigrants and asylum-seekers are not forgotten.
This is a time when we have the opportunity to help end demonization and anger — and decisively replace it with empathy and kindness.
We will continue to keep you updated on our work to free detained asylum-seekers and immigrants in the weeks and months ahead.
Thank you. We really can’t say it enough.
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