Save The Immigrants and Refugees
The Issue
I am starting this petition because I am so tired of seeing the inhumane conditions immigrants are living in due to ICE, Border Agents, and the United States government. I am sick of seeing the United States abuse these immigrants. We are all human, why can’t we treat each other as such? Over the years, this country has gotten more inhumane towards immigrants. Most immigrants just want to come here for a better life for them and their children. Stop believing everything you hear negatively about them. They aren’t here to bring drugs or to sex traffic, they are here to live a good life. This country was built upon freedom. This country claims to WELCOME immigrants. Why do they get treated so poorly when they come to the United States?
The United States contradicts everything it stands for. The men, women, and children who are living in ICE custody in CAGES are malnourished, abused, they get chemicals sprayed on them, they don’t get to bathe regularly, and recently Dr. Mahendra Amin, a Georgia OB-GYN, conducted hysterectomies (a surgery removing the uterus) on 100s of immigrant women detained by ICE. Majority of the women had no idea what he had done to them, they didn’t know that man took their privilege to have children ever again. These women will never be able to have children anymore. Let’s talk about what all happened during the Trump Administration that has barely been fixed. The United States has separated over 5,500 families as part of the Trump administration’s draconian “zero tolerance” policy. Years later, at least 545 children remain separated from their parents, with two-thirds of parents believed to have been deported to Central America. The United States has delivered tens of thousands of asylum seekers and migrants to life-threatening dangers like kidnapping, rape, and murder under the Trump administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocols,” resulting in 1,314 reports of violent attacks, including 318 kidnappings or attempted kidnappings of children, and countless unreported attacks. Thousands were stranded in a squalid refugee camp near the border, for the first time in U.S. history, where they endured frequent flooding, insect infestations, and feces washed up from the river. The United States has misused public health authority over the objections of senior experts at the CDC to expel children and asylum seekers to danger despite repeated objections from many of the nation’s leading public health experts who condemned the administration’s actions. Refugees expelled in violation of U.S. and international law include prominent Nicaraguan dissidents sent directly into the hands of the government that had persecuted and tortured them. One activist frantically ate his five-page declaration which listed his torturers so that the Nicaraguan police wouldn’t find it. The United States has imposed an illegal transit ban to deny asylum to hundreds of refugees, including persecuted pro-democracy advocates, torture survivors, and people targeted due to their sexual or gender identities, as well as to block asylum seekers granted refugee protection from reuniting with their children and spouses. The United States has refused to release asylum seekers and immigrants from detention facilities, despite the legal authority and repeated pleas from epidemiologists and former ICE officials to do so. This led to the preventable spread of COVID-19 in detention facilities and the infection and death of asylum seekers and immigrants. Other abysmal confinement conditions in ICE detention have included allegations of forcible sterilizations of Cameroonian women and the use of torture to coerce asylum seekers’ deportations. The United States has put unqualified, “acting” officials in leadership and legal positions, leading to illegal policies issued by illegal officials, which one federal court called “crashing the same car into a gate, hoping that someday it might break through.” The United States has blocked asylum seekers from requesting protection at the U.S. border by reducing processing capacity at ports of entry in violation of U.S. refugee law, subjecting asylum seekers to long wait times in dangerous border regions and leading to life-threatening border crossing attempts between ports of entry. The United States has summarily delivered hundreds of asylum seekers to Guatemala—a country that is not safe for refugees—without permitting them to apply for asylum in the United States, in violation of U.S. and international refugee law. The administration has finalized similar agreements with El Salvador and Honduras. Now under the Biden administration, things are not much better. Border Patrol continues to detain migrants, including children, in appalling outdoor conditions under the Anzalduas International Bridge in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Border Patrol is holding migrants in an Inhumane outside pen under a highway in South Texas. The Biden administration must close this inhumane detention site now. Still wet from the river and held outdoors under the Anzalduas International Bridge overnight, the mother of a 6 year old pleaded with Border Patrol agents to help her sick child and others. “They’re not going to die,” replied one agent, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Border Patrol began holding migrants at this outdoor site buried deep on federal property and out of public view on Jan. 23, 2021. It has detained migrants, including families with children, under the Anzalduas Bridge ever since — except for the multiple times when the site, located in a flood plain, has been evacuated due to weather conditions. Mothers shared that Border Patrol denied their pleas for medical care for sick children and that they experienced miserable conditions in high temperatures. This is unfortunately not the first time we have witnessed Border Patrol hold migrants in wholly inhumane conditions outdoors. At least twice the Trump administration held children and adults in similar disgraceful outdoor conditions — once underneath a bridge in El Paso, Texas, and once in a Border Patrol parking lot in McAllen, Texas. The Biden administration must reject the inhumanity of Trump-era practices and close the Anzalduas Bridge site. Border Patrol has demonstrated that it simply cannot hold people in appropriate conditions at this site. Border Patrol’s willingness to detain families with very young children in such a place reflects the agency’s systemic failures to provide humane detention conditions. Border Patrol’s lack of transparency is also deeply concerning and shows the need for outside access to the facilities where it holds migrants. The administration should also take steps to remove Border Patrol from the detention business altogether. With the agency’s long track record of abuse, the Biden administration cannot allow conditions like those under the Anzalduas Bridge to persist. ICE doesn’t care if immigrants die of COVID-19, as ICE has not been practicing any precautions, so many people in these detention centers have gotten sick with COVID-19, and many have died. Alfredo Garza was in ICE detention in 2020, and he had suffered a heart attack while detained this past January and says he was chained to a bed in the hospital while receiving treatment. Karlyn Kurichety is a supervising attorney with Al Otro Lado, a California-based organization that provides legal services to asylum seekers and other immigrants. “It’s just cruel and really disturbing, there’s basically no precautions being taken,” she said. “The detainees are not given any information about COVID-19. There are no signs, no talks, no advisories, nothing of that nature” she also said. A 39-year-old immigrant from Honduras, Nilson had been recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia. The Irwin detention center, which remains open despite the Biden administration’s promise to end its contract with the facility, had most recently gained attention due to multiple allegations of involuntary hysterectomies performed on women at the facility. When Nilson was detained at Irwin last year, he learned through his lawyer that coronavirus was present at the facility. ICE officials had failed to alert or protect staff and detainees. Facility staff regularly failed to wear masks and ensure disinfection. Out of desperation, Nilson participated in a hunger strike with other detainees. Their group made common-sense demands that ICE follow public health guidelines, provide them with masks and cleaning supplies, and release medically vulnerable people from detention. Instead, facility officials threw Nilson and his fellow hunger strikers in solitary confinement. ICE cut off the water in their cells, so they could not drink, wash, or flush the toilets. Officials also restricted Nilson’s communications with his lawyer and family. Only nine days later, when Nilson realized that a person detained in the room next to his had COVID-19, did he end his hunger strike. ICE officials and detention staff have met these hunger strikes—protected speech under the First Amendment–with extreme measures, including increased use of force such as pepper spray, physical force, and rubber bullets. September 21, 2021, images and videos have surfaced of Haitian migrants being violently removed after the Biden Administration authorized the addition of 600 U.S. Border Patrol agents to respond to Del Rio, Texas. Multiple news outlets report that as the migrants were attempting to cross the river to return to the U.S. side of the border, the Border Patrol agents charged them with their horses while whipping them with their horse reins. This cannot keep happening.
#ABOLISHICE #FREETHEMALL #IMMIGRANTSMAKEAMERICAGREAT #IMMIGRANTRIGHTS #INHUMANE #DEFENDDACA #IMMIGRATIONREFORM #JUSTICE #HERETOSTAY #EDUCATIONNOTDEPORTATION
Families belong together. No human is illegal. No border wall. Immigrant rights are human rights. Immigrants are welcome in the United States. Stop detaining refugee families for profit prisons. Immigrants have the right to remain silent, they have a right to contact an attorney immediately, and they have a right to not sign anything without advice from an attorney. The United States needs to stop violating immigrants rights. Immigrants are here to stay. Stop separating families. Dreamers belong here. The United States of America is the land of immigrants. Stop deportation. Immigrants built this country. End family separation. The Tablet on the Statue of Liberty says “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Why when these people come here for refuge they get belittled, beaten, abused, detained? This country invites them here, this country claims it will do good by them, yet this country treats migrants worse than the worst criminals. That is INHUMANE, and I am SICK OF IT. CHANGE NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW, and if you want to see that change, let’s get this petition to have as many signatures as possible! Share this everywhere, get everyone you know to sign this, LETS BE HEARD.
#JUSTICEFORALLIMMIGRANTSANDREFUGEES
Sources listed below:
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cruelty-and-coercion-how-ice-abuses-hunger-strikers
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/haitian-migrants-released-united-states/
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The Issue
I am starting this petition because I am so tired of seeing the inhumane conditions immigrants are living in due to ICE, Border Agents, and the United States government. I am sick of seeing the United States abuse these immigrants. We are all human, why can’t we treat each other as such? Over the years, this country has gotten more inhumane towards immigrants. Most immigrants just want to come here for a better life for them and their children. Stop believing everything you hear negatively about them. They aren’t here to bring drugs or to sex traffic, they are here to live a good life. This country was built upon freedom. This country claims to WELCOME immigrants. Why do they get treated so poorly when they come to the United States?
The United States contradicts everything it stands for. The men, women, and children who are living in ICE custody in CAGES are malnourished, abused, they get chemicals sprayed on them, they don’t get to bathe regularly, and recently Dr. Mahendra Amin, a Georgia OB-GYN, conducted hysterectomies (a surgery removing the uterus) on 100s of immigrant women detained by ICE. Majority of the women had no idea what he had done to them, they didn’t know that man took their privilege to have children ever again. These women will never be able to have children anymore. Let’s talk about what all happened during the Trump Administration that has barely been fixed. The United States has separated over 5,500 families as part of the Trump administration’s draconian “zero tolerance” policy. Years later, at least 545 children remain separated from their parents, with two-thirds of parents believed to have been deported to Central America. The United States has delivered tens of thousands of asylum seekers and migrants to life-threatening dangers like kidnapping, rape, and murder under the Trump administration’s “Migrant Protection Protocols,” resulting in 1,314 reports of violent attacks, including 318 kidnappings or attempted kidnappings of children, and countless unreported attacks. Thousands were stranded in a squalid refugee camp near the border, for the first time in U.S. history, where they endured frequent flooding, insect infestations, and feces washed up from the river. The United States has misused public health authority over the objections of senior experts at the CDC to expel children and asylum seekers to danger despite repeated objections from many of the nation’s leading public health experts who condemned the administration’s actions. Refugees expelled in violation of U.S. and international law include prominent Nicaraguan dissidents sent directly into the hands of the government that had persecuted and tortured them. One activist frantically ate his five-page declaration which listed his torturers so that the Nicaraguan police wouldn’t find it. The United States has imposed an illegal transit ban to deny asylum to hundreds of refugees, including persecuted pro-democracy advocates, torture survivors, and people targeted due to their sexual or gender identities, as well as to block asylum seekers granted refugee protection from reuniting with their children and spouses. The United States has refused to release asylum seekers and immigrants from detention facilities, despite the legal authority and repeated pleas from epidemiologists and former ICE officials to do so. This led to the preventable spread of COVID-19 in detention facilities and the infection and death of asylum seekers and immigrants. Other abysmal confinement conditions in ICE detention have included allegations of forcible sterilizations of Cameroonian women and the use of torture to coerce asylum seekers’ deportations. The United States has put unqualified, “acting” officials in leadership and legal positions, leading to illegal policies issued by illegal officials, which one federal court called “crashing the same car into a gate, hoping that someday it might break through.” The United States has blocked asylum seekers from requesting protection at the U.S. border by reducing processing capacity at ports of entry in violation of U.S. refugee law, subjecting asylum seekers to long wait times in dangerous border regions and leading to life-threatening border crossing attempts between ports of entry. The United States has summarily delivered hundreds of asylum seekers to Guatemala—a country that is not safe for refugees—without permitting them to apply for asylum in the United States, in violation of U.S. and international refugee law. The administration has finalized similar agreements with El Salvador and Honduras. Now under the Biden administration, things are not much better. Border Patrol continues to detain migrants, including children, in appalling outdoor conditions under the Anzalduas International Bridge in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Border Patrol is holding migrants in an Inhumane outside pen under a highway in South Texas. The Biden administration must close this inhumane detention site now. Still wet from the river and held outdoors under the Anzalduas International Bridge overnight, the mother of a 6 year old pleaded with Border Patrol agents to help her sick child and others. “They’re not going to die,” replied one agent, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. Border Patrol began holding migrants at this outdoor site buried deep on federal property and out of public view on Jan. 23, 2021. It has detained migrants, including families with children, under the Anzalduas Bridge ever since — except for the multiple times when the site, located in a flood plain, has been evacuated due to weather conditions. Mothers shared that Border Patrol denied their pleas for medical care for sick children and that they experienced miserable conditions in high temperatures. This is unfortunately not the first time we have witnessed Border Patrol hold migrants in wholly inhumane conditions outdoors. At least twice the Trump administration held children and adults in similar disgraceful outdoor conditions — once underneath a bridge in El Paso, Texas, and once in a Border Patrol parking lot in McAllen, Texas. The Biden administration must reject the inhumanity of Trump-era practices and close the Anzalduas Bridge site. Border Patrol has demonstrated that it simply cannot hold people in appropriate conditions at this site. Border Patrol’s willingness to detain families with very young children in such a place reflects the agency’s systemic failures to provide humane detention conditions. Border Patrol’s lack of transparency is also deeply concerning and shows the need for outside access to the facilities where it holds migrants. The administration should also take steps to remove Border Patrol from the detention business altogether. With the agency’s long track record of abuse, the Biden administration cannot allow conditions like those under the Anzalduas Bridge to persist. ICE doesn’t care if immigrants die of COVID-19, as ICE has not been practicing any precautions, so many people in these detention centers have gotten sick with COVID-19, and many have died. Alfredo Garza was in ICE detention in 2020, and he had suffered a heart attack while detained this past January and says he was chained to a bed in the hospital while receiving treatment. Karlyn Kurichety is a supervising attorney with Al Otro Lado, a California-based organization that provides legal services to asylum seekers and other immigrants. “It’s just cruel and really disturbing, there’s basically no precautions being taken,” she said. “The detainees are not given any information about COVID-19. There are no signs, no talks, no advisories, nothing of that nature” she also said. A 39-year-old immigrant from Honduras, Nilson had been recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia. The Irwin detention center, which remains open despite the Biden administration’s promise to end its contract with the facility, had most recently gained attention due to multiple allegations of involuntary hysterectomies performed on women at the facility. When Nilson was detained at Irwin last year, he learned through his lawyer that coronavirus was present at the facility. ICE officials had failed to alert or protect staff and detainees. Facility staff regularly failed to wear masks and ensure disinfection. Out of desperation, Nilson participated in a hunger strike with other detainees. Their group made common-sense demands that ICE follow public health guidelines, provide them with masks and cleaning supplies, and release medically vulnerable people from detention. Instead, facility officials threw Nilson and his fellow hunger strikers in solitary confinement. ICE cut off the water in their cells, so they could not drink, wash, or flush the toilets. Officials also restricted Nilson’s communications with his lawyer and family. Only nine days later, when Nilson realized that a person detained in the room next to his had COVID-19, did he end his hunger strike. ICE officials and detention staff have met these hunger strikes—protected speech under the First Amendment–with extreme measures, including increased use of force such as pepper spray, physical force, and rubber bullets. September 21, 2021, images and videos have surfaced of Haitian migrants being violently removed after the Biden Administration authorized the addition of 600 U.S. Border Patrol agents to respond to Del Rio, Texas. Multiple news outlets report that as the migrants were attempting to cross the river to return to the U.S. side of the border, the Border Patrol agents charged them with their horses while whipping them with their horse reins. This cannot keep happening.
#ABOLISHICE #FREETHEMALL #IMMIGRANTSMAKEAMERICAGREAT #IMMIGRANTRIGHTS #INHUMANE #DEFENDDACA #IMMIGRATIONREFORM #JUSTICE #HERETOSTAY #EDUCATIONNOTDEPORTATION
Families belong together. No human is illegal. No border wall. Immigrant rights are human rights. Immigrants are welcome in the United States. Stop detaining refugee families for profit prisons. Immigrants have the right to remain silent, they have a right to contact an attorney immediately, and they have a right to not sign anything without advice from an attorney. The United States needs to stop violating immigrants rights. Immigrants are here to stay. Stop separating families. Dreamers belong here. The United States of America is the land of immigrants. Stop deportation. Immigrants built this country. End family separation. The Tablet on the Statue of Liberty says “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Why when these people come here for refuge they get belittled, beaten, abused, detained? This country invites them here, this country claims it will do good by them, yet this country treats migrants worse than the worst criminals. That is INHUMANE, and I am SICK OF IT. CHANGE NEEDS TO HAPPEN NOW, and if you want to see that change, let’s get this petition to have as many signatures as possible! Share this everywhere, get everyone you know to sign this, LETS BE HEARD.
#JUSTICEFORALLIMMIGRANTSANDREFUGEES
Sources listed below:
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cruelty-and-coercion-how-ice-abuses-hunger-strikers
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/haitian-migrants-released-united-states/
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Petition created on September 22, 2021