On Tuesday, July 2 at noon local time, communities across the country will gather at local Congressional offices to demand the closure of inhumane immigrant detention centers. Click here to HOST or ATTEND a protest.
(Note: New events are being added constantly. If you don’t want to host and don’t see an event near you, check the link again later.)
New court documents describe inhumane and barbaric Border Patrol facility conditions. A 17-year-old mom allowed to shower and brush her teeth only once every five days. A 4-year-old girl so filthy her hair was matted. Freezing temperatures that one doctor compared to “a torture facility.”
This is happening on American soil. To children who have been ripped from their families. On our watch and using taxpayer dollars. Just like you, I don't have enough adjectives to describe my rage and grief.
Unbelievably enough, Congress has done nothing to stop this nightmare.
We won't stand for the Trump administration's attacks on immigrants and the horrific conditions in child detention camps. And we didn't spend 2018 working night and day to elect a Democratic House to then tolerate Congressional inaction in the face of this brutality.
To make Congress act, to make them understand how absolutely repugnant this is, we have to turn our rage into action.
On Tuesday, July 2 at noon local time, we are going to harness our collective grief and rage to spring into action in support and defense of immigrants. Together we'll send the message to members of Congress and their staff that the Trump administration must close the camps immediately, free the children, reunite them with their families, and stop this war on immigrants.
Join Daily Kos, MoveOn, the American Friends Service Committee, Families Belong Together, United We Dream, and your neighbors to demand the closure of inhumane immigrant detention centers.
Can't attend? Chip in $1 each to organizations providing advocacy and resources for children and families being detained at the U.S./ Mexico border.
As long as we keep showing up, the children and families on the border are not alone. I'll see you in the streets.