Write to your Congress to Say Reunite ALL the children
Reunite ALL the children. Write to Congress now.
The Trump Administration failed to meet a court order to reunify families they separated at the border by July 26. Many families have not been brought back together. Children are still being kept in cages and abuses continue. The short video below features distraught parents and children at the U.S. border, humanitarian workers describing the conditions they are facing, and also includes moving footage of a mother being reunited with her child.
Deleted’ families: What went wrong with Trump’s family-separation effort
- The Washington Post, July 28, 2018
A Breakdown of Families Separated at the US-Mexico Border
-The New York Times, July 26, 2018
Sample Letter
I'm [name] from [zipcode]. This summer, the administration tried to use the cruel manufactured crisis of zero-tolerance as leverage to force votes on unrelated immigration law reforms. I now urge you to use your oversight and appropriations authority as leverage to fix the catastrophe it created – including providing far more clarity on its plans for reunifying families, explaining how it will address the trauma that children have suffered under this policy, and clearly spelling out plans for the expansion of humane, lawful, and cost-efficient alternatives to detention in the future.
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is a volunteer-run organization in the District of Columbia, with many volunteers who are DC residents with no voting representation in Congress. Our mission is to elevate constituent issues with Congress through hand-delivery of letters, advocacy with congressional staff, and facilitating communication for constituents and progressive organizations with Members of Congress.
Acknowledgement
Special thanks to the and (KIND) for putting together their helpful/clarifying fact sheet on the situation of families being separated at the border vs. recent stories about “missing" children. Thanks to for their graphic, for their call-script that we have adapted, and the for their from which we have quoted conten, and for talking points. Bill Summary from .