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Here's an action alert from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services:
the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning renewed deportation efforts targeting children and families who fled to the U.S. from Central America seeking protection. As with the enforcement actions that occurred just after Christmas 2015, the Administration again claims it will target for deportation only children and families with no legal claim to stay in the United States. Many of these mothers and children are refugees, but the process is unfairly tilted against them.
After ICE arrested 121 Central American mothers and their children during the last targeted enforcement actions, maintaining that they had no legal claim to stay in the United States, we learned that many of the families were denied due process which inhibited them from being adjudicated as refugees. In fact, they had fled extreme domestic violence or were targeted for recruitment, kidnapping, assault or other extortion by transnational criminal organizations. The immediate deportation of 33 mothers and children was delayed after advocates intervened to raise concerns over the quality and fairness of the legal proceedings.
Moreover, in recognition of the large numbers of refugees fleeing Central America, the Obama Administration created a program for children at risk in this region to reunite with parents in the U.S. and has announced the creation of a refugee resettlement process out of this region. It is unconscionable that the Administration would acknowledge the need for refugee protections in these violent countries, yet choose to forcibly return mothers and children from the very same countries who fled to the United States.
We again call on you to challenge the White House to refrain from repeating this injustice against refugee children and families. We need more compassion, not more deportation.
You can take action to protest the unfair targeting of Central American refugee families by calling President Obama's office. LIRS has a simple script and his phone number. (There is a faith reference in the script, but it is easy enough to drop out if you don't want to use it.)
the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning renewed deportation efforts targeting children and families who fled to the U.S. from Central America seeking protection. As with the enforcement actions that occurred just after Christmas 2015, the Administration again claims it will target for deportation only children and families with no legal claim to stay in the United States. Many of these mothers and children are refugees, but the process is unfairly tilted against them.
After ICE arrested 121 Central American mothers and their children during the last targeted enforcement actions, maintaining that they had no legal claim to stay in the United States, we learned that many of the families were denied due process which inhibited them from being adjudicated as refugees. In fact, they had fled extreme domestic violence or were targeted for recruitment, kidnapping, assault or other extortion by transnational criminal organizations. The immediate deportation of 33 mothers and children was delayed after advocates intervened to raise concerns over the quality and fairness of the legal proceedings.
Moreover, in recognition of the large numbers of refugees fleeing Central America, the Obama Administration created a program for children at risk in this region to reunite with parents in the U.S. and has announced the creation of a refugee resettlement process out of this region. It is unconscionable that the Administration would acknowledge the need for refugee protections in these violent countries, yet choose to forcibly return mothers and children from the very same countries who fled to the United States.
We again call on you to challenge the White House to refrain from repeating this injustice against refugee children and families. We need more compassion, not more deportation.
You can take action to protest the unfair targeting of Central American refugee families by calling President Obama's office. LIRS has a simple script and his phone number. (There is a faith reference in the script, but it is easy enough to drop out if you don't want to use it.)
