Hi John, Nearly 2 million mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and children have been turned away at our southern border since the start of the pandemic. So when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the Title 42 expulsion policy was finally coming to an end, asylum seekers and their loved ones breathed a sigh of relief. This decision was a massive victory for migrant children and families – but now, some members of Congress are trying to delay it. John, if these lawmakers succeed, more asylum seekers will be forced to suffer violence, persecution, hunger and poverty in their home countries. Send a message to your members of Congress: for the sake of children in urgent need, we must reject any efforts to extend Title 42 and instead work to restore and strengthen our asylum system. The CDC, doctors and medical experts have made it clear: asylum seekers don’t pose any heightened risk of transmitting COVID-19 – in fact, they never have. But lawmakers from both parties are trying to mandate the continuation of Title 42 on the basis of politics, not public health. Countless migrants have been living in camps near the U.S.-Mexico border for months or years, desperately awaiting their chance to apply for asylum after fleeing for their lives. If Title 42 is extended, there’s no telling when – or if – that opportunity will come. Compassion has no borders. Urge Congress to support science and the Biden administration in ending Title 42, restoring asylum and fulfilling our promise to protect children and keep families together. |