John --
This is truly heartbreaking. With a vaccine in sight, COVID-19 is running rampant through ICE jails. More than half are reporting outbreaks, and infections are 13 times higher than the national average.
Trapped by ICE in this terrifying nightmare are hundreds of families -- mothers, fathers, and children -- who sought a better life and now fear every interaction with a guard could get them infected.
No child, no parent, no family should be forced to suffer this horror, but this is the sick and twisted alternate reality that thousands of children were put into last year alone.
Families Belong Together is working tirelessly to draw attention to these horrific conditions and fight for families to be released, reunited, and supported on the long road to recovery.
End of year donations are some of the most important for our ability to keep up this work. We need to raise $25,000 in the next 5 days, so if you’re able, I urge you to donate $25 to help us reach this key goal.
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It’s been an overwhelming and exhausting year to say the least. But 2020 is also a year to reflect on the system that has led to the atrocities we’ve seen -- and continue to see. How did we get here -- and how do we move forward?
At Families Belong Together, we’ve got a sophisticated strategy tackling this at multiple levels: reunifying families, supporting on-the-ground partners, blowing the whistle on abuses in custody, and fighting to right the wrongs over the long term. But it’s also about questioning a system that is driven by an addiction to punishment and cruelty.
We have our work cut out for us, but we have seen time and again when we come together we can make profound changes to end the horrors being done in our name -- and to make sure it doesn’t happen again. To do that I need to ask:
If you're able, please make a $25 gift to Families Belong Together to help us reach our $25,000 goal. Every single dollar you give will fund our work, from reuniting separated families, supporting immigrant communities, building a more tolerant world today, and beyond.
At its core, our work at Families Belong Together is about healing. It's about reuniting families that were ripped apart at the border, ensuring families and children are safe and with people who love them -- not locked away.
Let’s make 2021 the year we turn the corner on this horrific chapter of our country’s history.
Thank you so much, for everything you do.
Sincerely,
Erin Mazursky, Organizing Director
Families Belong Together
Families Belong Together is a campaign of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). NDWA is the nation's leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States, most of whom are women. If you would like to get in touch with Families Belong Together, click here.
