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Tell President Trump: Reunite and Release Families!

Throughout the summer, people have joined together to resist the cruel separation and detention of families. Protests are growing in strength nationally and globally, but the fight isn’t over.

Some parents and family members who were separated from their children have been deported back to countries where their lives may be at risk — and where they will have to live not knowing if they will see their children again.

Some families have been reunited but are now held in family detention centers. In family detention centers, children experience an average of one month of developmental delays for every three months they’re detained.

At the same time, U.S. authorities have been directed to detain all asylum-seeking families, potentially for months or even years, while they wait for decisions on their asylum claims. The U.S. government is using this abusive system as a tactic to deter asylum claims.

There are alternatives to family detention. The now-terminated Family Case Management Program (“FCMP”) was 99 percent effective in ensuring that asylum-seeking parents and their children appeared for their immigration court proceedings by helping them find legal representation, guiding them through the court system, and connecting them with other community resources.

Send a message to President Trump and demand that the U.S. government stops locking up asylum seekers and reunites separated families now!

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President

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Dear President Trump,

I urge you to immediately end the cruel and unnecessary practice of separating and detaining families seeking asylum at the U.S. southern border.

The U.S. government is deliberately acting to separate children from their parents or legal guardians.  This practice damages families, traumatizes children and adults, and undermines their right to seek asylum from persecution and other ill-treatment.  Separating children from their parents as they seek asylum is a flagrant violation of the human rights of the parents and their children and is also a violation of U.S. obligations under refugee law.

I call on you to urgently ensure the following: 
1. Reunify, as quickly as possible, those families that have been separated
2. Halt the forced separation of children from their parents or guardians.  Family units must be kept together in accordance with international standards on family unity.
3. End the practice of detaining families seeking asylum.
4. Immediately release together parents and children in detention.

Entire families have been devastated by these unnecessary and cruel actions.  Families deserve to be together as they seek asylum here in the U.S. – parents are seeking safety for their families, just as any of us would do.

Sincerely,
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