Dear friend,

 

We have all seen the images and read the stories of migrants and refugees languishing in overcrowded and unsafe detention camps. Children in jail-like facilities, separated from their families, taking care of other children, sleeping on cement floor, without enough food and clean water, or even soap and diapers. Some are dying in custody. And some are dying on the border, in a desperate journey to find refuge in our country.


These conditions are not an accident. They are by design cruel and inhumane.
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Trump has made xenophobia and anti-immigrant policies the centerpiece of his administration. His strategy to terrorize immigrant communities includes not only imprisoning children and adults in inhumane conditions, but also separating families at the border, unleashing raids in cities across the country, attempting to end DACA and TPS protections, shutting the government to force congress to fund his racist wall, and so much more. Trump’s policies are cruel by design. All for political gain.


The images, the sounds, the stories, and the racist rhetoric evoke the worst moments in our country’s history. They remind us of the horrors experienced by Native American children separated from their families, and the xenophobia that enabled the creation of Japanese internment camps. And they force us to examine our present and confront the fact that it is not only immigrant children who languish in jails. Black and brown children and adults have been fed into a racist system of mass incarceration for decades. We know that these events are the result of the cruelty of those in power, and the complacency of others.
 
We are at a moment of choice. When we look back to this moment, knowing what we now know, we will without doubt ask ourselves if we did enough to stop it.
 
Thousands and thousands of people are answering that question by showing up to the fight. They are choosing to stand up for each other, for our families, and for a vision of the country where we can all be free. Just yesterday, thousands of allies joined with immigrant leaders from community organizations like Make the Road New Jersey, to [occupy congressional offices]([link removed]) and hold vigils outside of ICE facilities to demand that congress [#CloseTheCamps]([link removed]).
 
Over the new few weeks and months, we will need to scale up our efforts to demand urgent moral action from those in congress and the White House. Join us in the streets on Friday, July 12, for the [Lights for Liberty, a national day of action]([link removed]) to [#CloseTheCamps]([link removed]).
 
And the organizations that are part of our network will anchor almost-daily actions in front of detention camps, ICE facilities, and congressional offices in states across the country. [You can help us build the urgent, massive, moral, roaring movement for justice by donating here.]([link removed])
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We know the fight is long. And we know we need all of us, together, in sustained commitment to each other, to not only survive this moment, but build the country of our dreams.
 
Thank you for choosing to fight.

 

In solidarity,


Ana Maria Archila
Co-Executive Director, CPD


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