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"provider_name": "Action Network",
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"author_name": "Faithful America",
"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/faithful-america",
"title": "Stop Locking Children in Detention",
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"description": "A nation that claims to value children does not put them in cages. In less than 14 months of President Trump's second term, ICE detained more than 6,200 children -- including at least 500 babies and toddlers. More than 1,600 children were held beyond the court-set 20-day limit on child detention. On an average day, ICE holds nearly 10 times as many children as it did during the final year of the previous administration. These are children of God -- children Jesus welcomed, blessed, and placed at the center of his ministry. Yet ICE is still expanding this cruel system. In Alexandria, Louisiana, the England Economic and Industrial Development District has signed a contract to turn former military barracks at England Airpark into a 528-bed detention facility for children and families. Groundwater at the former Air Force base has contained extraordinarily high levels of toxic PFAS "forever chemicals." For months, this plan has drawn opposition from immigrant rights advocates, faith leaders, and community members. Residents have packed board meetings to demonstrate and demand that the contract be canceled. Pastor Leah Rachal, one of the local clergy opposing the facility, said it best: "We might disagree on some of the other minutiae of immigration policy. But not this. Nobody wants children to be detained." England Airpark is one urgent example of a national moral crisis. Members of Congress have the legal authority to enter ICE detention facilities without advance notice, inspect conditions, and demand accountability. That authority is worthless if they don't use it. We must demand that they conduct immediate, unannounced inspections of facilities holding children and families -- and use every oversight and funding tool available to end child detention. Click “START WRITING” to send your message to your senators and representative now.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-locking-children-in-detention"
}