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Ask Congress to Stand Up for Refugees Now!

President Trump has declared a national emergency in order to build his number one campaign promise — a border wall. Denied what he wants by the Congress, he wants to circumvent them and spend billions of dollars to build a wall along the US Southern border — just one more effort to manufacture a crisis and keep asylum-seekers fleeing violence and danger from accessing our border. Once already here in the US, he wants to throw them in detention.

We need to tell Congress that enough is enough.

We do not want a border wall that keeps asylum-seekers out and cuts through indigenous land. We are tired of policies being implemented in our name that do not represent who we are or what we believe. And we don’t want to drastically increase detention bed space, including family detention, when there are more humane alternatives to detention that are cost-effective and respectful of human rights.

Sign now to tell Congress, we must stop criminalizing people who are seeking refuge.

⬇ Make Your Voice Heard ⬇

Dear Member of Congress,

I urge you to strongly oppose any further funds for President Trump’s border wall, either through a national emergency declaration or Congressional appropriations, or any additional “border security measures” that will make it more difficult for asylum-seekers to access protection or punish them for doing so by detaining them. Seeking asylum is a fundamental human right. To punish asylum-seekers and deter them from accessing that protection is a violation of our obligations under international law.

The U.S. already operates the world’s largest immigration detention system, at a cost of over $3 billion in the most recent fiscal year. U.S. detention bed space is already at a historic high – and too often we’re detaining those who are seeking asylum, including families who fled horrific violence in their home countries.

The President ’s policies already in place at the Southern border represents an abusive enforcement agenda that undermines both the right to seek asylum and non-refoulement - violations of human rights.

Congress has the power to stop this agenda. Turning our back on those in need is an affront to our country's tradition and international obligations to welcome people seeking safety and our cherished values of due process, fairness, and equality. Congress must reject the administration’s efforts to expand the immigration detention system and militarize our border. Instead, we should reaffirm the United States’ commitment to human rights.

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