Please *help* the migrant children refugees on our borders!
The USA needs to help the children refugees seeking safety at our borders.
Honored Senators and Representatives:
I am deeply troubled by the current refugee crisis of children fleeing violence in Central America and at our government's proposed response. Instead of seeking a humane solution, the federal government is seeking $3.7 billion to tighten our border control to both increase and expedite deportations. The Congress is also being asked to eliminate existing legal protections for Central American children.
This is shameful and unacceptable.
Many of these children are refugees--not immigrants. They are fleeing extreme violence from the drug cartels that have taken over their cities, villages and schools. Children are forced to work for the drug cartels (often at gunpoint) and are often murdered, raped or dismembered if they refuse. Many drug cartels go into the schools to kidnap children (or force them to work or use drugs)--and kids are no longer safe on the street. As a last resort, children are seeking refuge in our country.
When we deport these children back to their homeland, we are sentencing many to death.
We should be helping them, not ignoring them.
I urge you, both as concerned American politicians and as caring human beings, *not* to approve these proposed changes--and to also help our administration find a better solution.
We should be putting our efforts towards making Central America safer--for both their society AND our own. We need to weaken the power of these drug cartels, as it also affects our country, endangering our citizens with masses of illegal and dangerous substances--as well as contributing to the border crisis.
More importantly, it is our moral imperative to give *every* child a safe haven--and to also provide a fair, legal due process for every single one. The least we can do is to make sure that we are not sending children back into a situation where they face extreme violence (that often results in rape, forced labor within the drug cartel, dismemberment or murder).
We can collaborate with the United Nations, other neighboring countries, the Red Cross, and international aid organizations. Together, we can organize a rational and humanitarian response that helps *save* lives, rather than destroys them.
Please help these children.
I am deeply troubled by the current refugee crisis of children fleeing violence in Central America and at our government's proposed response. Instead of seeking a humane solution, the federal government is seeking $3.7 billion to tighten our border control to both increase and expedite deportations. The Congress is also being asked to eliminate existing legal protections for Central American children.
This is shameful and unacceptable.
Many of these children are refugees--not immigrants. They are fleeing extreme violence from the drug cartels that have taken over their cities, villages and schools. Children are forced to work for the drug cartels (often at gunpoint) and are often murdered, raped or dismembered if they refuse. Many drug cartels go into the schools to kidnap children (or force them to work or use drugs)--and kids are no longer safe on the street. As a last resort, children are seeking refuge in our country.
When we deport these children back to their homeland, we are sentencing many to death.
We should be helping them, not ignoring them.
I urge you, both as concerned American politicians and as caring human beings, *not* to approve these proposed changes--and to also help our administration find a better solution.
We should be putting our efforts towards making Central America safer--for both their society AND our own. We need to weaken the power of these drug cartels, as it also affects our country, endangering our citizens with masses of illegal and dangerous substances--as well as contributing to the border crisis.
More importantly, it is our moral imperative to give *every* child a safe haven--and to also provide a fair, legal due process for every single one. The least we can do is to make sure that we are not sending children back into a situation where they face extreme violence (that often results in rape, forced labor within the drug cartel, dismemberment or murder).
We can collaborate with the United Nations, other neighboring countries, the Red Cross, and international aid organizations. Together, we can organize a rational and humanitarian response that helps *save* lives, rather than destroys them.
Please help these children.
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