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Dear John,

Ana* and her four-year-old daughter Victoria* fled Honduras to seek asylum in
the United States, after her husband was murdered for his political beliefs. But
immediately upon arrival, ICE locked the two of them away in the notorious
Dilley family detention center in Texas, where they’ve spent the past ten months
with little access to protection and negligent medical care.

Every day, the two of them are struggling to survive the terrifying threat of
COVID-19, which is ravaging the center they are inhumanely detained in. To make
matters worse, Victoria has asthma and is at high-risk should she contract the
virus.

But now, things are reaching a breaking point. In recent weeks, a federal judge
ordered that all children currently held by ICE be released by Friday, July 17 —
declaring that detention facilities like the one Ana and Victoria are trapped in
are “on fire” with confirmed cases of COVID-19 and inadequate protection.

However, the judge cannot order ICE to release their parents, too — that means
ICE could keep parents detained and separated from their children, or keep these
families locked up indefinitely. We need your help.
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Amnesty is doing everything in our power to make sure that ICE frees children
and their parents together. We can’t let Ana and almost a hundred other parents
face a brutal, impossible situation — separating from their children and
potentially losing them forever, or staying locked away in family detention
indefinitely.

Please chip in with a $15 donation to support our emergency efforts. Every
little bit adds up.
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Ana and Victoria’s painful story is just one of almost a hundred that shows
ICE’s total disregard for the health and wellbeing of children and parents
during this pandemic. There are children as young as one whom ICE may choose to
separate from their parents instead of releasing them together.

These children and their families have a chance to go free tomorrow. But we must
act now.

John, when we come together to apply pressure on
ICE, we win — just last month, asylum-seekers Paola* and her baby Jose* were released thanks
to the relentless advocacy of their lawyers and sustained pressure from
activists like us.

With your support, we can continue to ramp up our intensive media and
campaigning efforts demanding that ICE do the right thing and release all
families together. We’ve driven tens of thousands of letters and calls to ICE
Acting Director Matthew Albence, and with your support, we’ll continue to keep
up the pressure.

But we need you right now. Inaction simply isn’t an option — the safety and well
being of families are on the line. Please rush an emergency donation now.
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Thank you in advance for helping fight back during this critical moment

Denise Bell

Researcher for Refugee and Migrant Rights
Amnesty International USA

P.S. The photo above is not a photo of the people whose stories are told in this
email.

* Pseudonym

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