Friend --

A huge thank you to everyone who joined the #CloseTheCamps events on July
2! But regardless of whether or not you were able to make it, there's
still another chance to get involved with the [ [link removed] ]July 12 Lights for
Liberty events. Find one in your area and make your voice heard: the
inhumane conditions faced by migrants must stop. Learn more in our email
below.

-- Mai

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Dear Friend,

Stand up for immigrants on [ [link removed] ]July 12 with Lights for Liberty.

Children as young as 4 months old are taken from their parents. Medicine
is confiscated and medical care withheld. LGBTQ+ and disabled individuals
are held in solitary confinement.(1) Elderly people are confined to
“icebox” rooms for weeks at a time. At least 24 people have died in ICE
custody so far.(2)

We've seen the images and heard the stories coming out of Trump’s
concentration camps.(And if you have any concerns about the use of
"concentration camps" in this context, [ [link removed] ]please consider this Vox piece
by a Jewish historian.) Trump’s administration is trying to terrorize
immigrant and refugee communities and criminalize immigration by detaining
children in horrific conditions, authorizing raids to break up families,
covering up reports of immigrants dying in U.S. custody, and hiding abuses
by border patrol agents.

It’s going to take all of us to shut down these concentration camps.
That’s why we’re joining Lights for Liberty on July 12 to protest these
atrocities committed by Trump’s administration.

Take a stand against Trump Camps on [ [link removed] ]July 12 with Lights for Liberty.

The refugees being detained in Trump’s concentration camps are now being
moved onto military grounds such as Fort Sill, where Japanese citizens
were interned during Word War II, and where reporters, lawyers, and human
rights monitors will no longer be able to record and report the conditions
inside the camps.(3) We -- and especially the immigrants inside of these
concentration camps -- can’t afford to wait any longer to take action.

Find a protest near you on [ [link removed] ]Friday, July 12 and join us in calling on
Congress to shut down the camps.

In solidarity,

Mai, along with Analeeza, Annie, Brenna, Caitlin, Diego, Eddie, Gabby,
Lindsay, Mary, Molly, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage Campaign team)

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