BREAKING NEWS: 1,556 more immigrant families were separated than
previously estimated!
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It's time for Congress to take back the power of the purse and stop
funding Trump's awful immigration policies!
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Dear Friend,
We’ve all been hearing about the depths of cruelty of the Trump
Administration’s family separation policies for a while, but the extent of
that cruelty is still being discovered.
Horrifyingly, just last week, the ACLU discovered 1,556 more immigrant
families were separated than previously estimated. [1]
I read that and cried. Then I got pissed off. Now I’m taking action!
[ [link removed] ]Join me!
Leaders in the U.S. Congress MUST stop increasing funding to ICE and
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) for Trump’s cruel immigration policies and
also exert strict oversight over the future funding to these departments.
Enough is enough!
[ [link removed] ]***Sign our letter NOW calling on Congress to pass a budget that lifts
up all families and cuts funding for Trump’s hateful anti-immigrant
policies!
With the new separated families that the ACLU discovered, we now know at
least 4,300 families were separated at the border prior to a judge
ordering the Trump Administration to stop this horrific practice. The ACLU
said 207 of the newly identified children who were separated from their
parents are under 5 years old, including five infants under the age of 1.
[2]
[ [link removed] ]This callous and heartless treatment of children by ICE and CBP is
shocking and these agencies must be held accountable!
It cannot be overstated how damaging family separation is to the social
and emotional well-being of these children—as well as their parents and
U.S. born siblings. According to Jack P. Shonkoff, a professor of child
health and development at Harvard, “Abrupt separation from primary
caregivers or parents is a major psychological emergency [for migrant
children].” [3] In addition, placement, especially for long periods of
time, of children in prison-like settings is incredibly damaging to their
brain development and has long-term health (psychological and physical)
affects. These children are not just missing the emotional support of
having a caretaker nearby—touch, talk, having their basic needs met,
etc.—there is also a negative neurological impact. Kids with chronic
trauma, like those forced into cages and separated from their parents,
have higher amounts of neurotoxins such as cortisol and are more likely to
have stunted brain growth. [4]
Each of these thousands of children separated from their families are now
at higher risk of mental illness, drug use, chronic illnesses, and
dropping out of school later in life.
THIS is the legacy of President Trump and his inhumane immigration
policies.
[ [link removed] ]But Congress can stop this right now! It is not too late for Congress
to re-assert its authority over the funding of the agencies that are
carrying out the Trump administration’s cruel immigration policies!
**ADD YOUR SIGNATURE TO OUR LETTER!
The question of funding is an important one since Congress needs to decide
on a budget by the end of this year. A budget says everything about our
priorities as a nation and President Trump's priorities are clear: He
wants to use our hard earned tax dollars to fund detention centers that
jail children and separate them from their families rather than programs
that we really need that provide emergency aid in times of disaster,
supporting our troops and their families, nutrition assistance,
healthcare, education funding, and money to fix our roads and
infrastructure.
Congress must fight the atrocities President Trump is committing at the
Southern border, and throughout this country, by holding ICE and Customs
and Border Patrol (CBP) accountable for human rights abuses like
separating thousands of children and parents at the border without even
bothering to document which children belong to which parents. [5]
At this time, significantly cutting funding for these agencies is the best
route to holding the Trump Administration accountable for these human
rights abuses and preventing further abuses.
[ [link removed] ]***Sign our letter NOW calling on Congress to pass a budget that lifts
up all families and cuts funding for Trump’s hateful anti-immigrant
policies!
Children deserve to be with their families outside of cages and they must
have their rights protected. Family separation and family incarceration
compounds the existing trauma and stress that children and families have
already experienced in their home country or on their journey to the U.S.
There are alternatives to family detention that are not only more
compassionate for children and families, but also more fiscally
responsible. For example, asylum seeking families may be released from
detention through a family case management program, which has a nearly 100
percent success rate in ensuring the families attend their hearings. The
family case management program costs only $36/day, while family detention
costs on average $1,280/day for a family of four. [6]
It’s time for our federal budget to truly reflect our morals as a nation.
Don’t forget to [ [link removed] ]sign our letter to your members of Congress — and also
to forward this email to friends, as well as post the action link on
[ [link removed] ]Facebook and [ [link removed]'s+horrible+immigration+policies.+SIGN+%40MOMSRISING'S+LETTER+NOW! ]Twitter. The more people who take action, the faster
we’ll all be able to make change. And please don’t delay: We’ll be
delivering your signatures to key Congressional leaders next week on
Capitol Hill. Congress will be making major funding decisions over the
next few weeks and we need to make it known that we won’t stand for our
tax dollars being used to tear apart families and jail immigrant families
any longer.
Thank you for continuing to speak out for all of our families!
- Elyssa, Xochitl, Linda, Donna, Kristin, and the whole MomsRising/Mamás
Con Poder team
[1,2] [ [link removed] ]Camilo Montoya-Galvez. “1,556 more migrant families were
separated under Trump than previously known.” CBS News, October 25, 2019.
[3] [ [link removed] ]Isaac Chotiner. “How the Stress of Separation and Detention
Changes the Lives of Children.” The New Yorker, July 13, 2019.
[4] [ [link removed] ]Zak Ringstein. “Family Separation Means Lifelong Trauma.” Forbes,
July 2, 2018.
[5] [ [link removed] ]Jacob Soboroff. “Emails show Trump admin had ‘no way to link’
separated migrant children to parents.” NBC News, May 1, 2019
[6] [ [link removed] ]Women’s Refuge Commission. “Family Case Management Program.”
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