| 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 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 Dear Friend, Stand up for immigrants on 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, 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 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 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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