Sign the petition: Keep Homestead Detention Center closed — End the detention of migrant children!
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In 2019, the American Friends Service Committee and partners in Florida worked with advocates across the country to shut down the nation’s largest detention center for migrant children in Homestead, Florida, which was notorious for its human rights violations and the role it played in
Trump's family separation policy.
Now the Biden administration is reopening “emergency influx” facilities – and we are once again asking for your help.
President Biden must keep his promise to treat immigrants with the respect and dignity we all deserve. Reopening any child detention center places young people in greater danger, especially in this pandemic.
Alternatives exist – and should be used. These include adopting community-based alternatives to detention that uphold and protect the rights of children.
We need your voice today. Please join us in urging President Biden to take immediate steps to unite migrant children with their families and sponsors and permanently close detention centers for migrant children.
Participating Organizations:American Friends Service Committee
Color of Change
Daily Kos
Families Belong Together
Haitian Bridge Alliance
MPower Change
Presente.org
Progress America
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To:
Biden Administration
From:
[Your Name]
Migrant children should be treated with the respect and dignity we all deserve. “Emergency influx” centers such as the one in Homestead, Florida have no place in U.S. immigration policy and deny migrant children their rights. I urge you to keep the Homestead migrant child detention center—and others like it—closed. Instead, the U.S. should reunite children with their families and sponsors and invest in community-based alternatives that fully respect the rights of children.