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Nos EUA, para dissuadir a imigração ilegal, separam-se as famílias à balda. Os pais são considerados criminosos e enviados para a cadeia comum e os filhos são-lhes arrancados dos braços à força, alguns (60) com dois anos de idade e depois são atirados sozinhos para um centro de acolhimento onde esperam, sempre sozinhos e sem saberem dos pais, para irem à presença de um juíz defender-se, sem advogados, logo, defenderem-se a si mesmos... um nível de crueldade inacreditável. Quem tem lutado para lhes arranjar defesa legal são pessoas da sociedade civil que felizmente não se revêem nesta gente nojenta que anda pelos governos do mundo.

The reports are that parents and children who have been forcibly separated are traumatized: Experts have labeled this sudden family separation to be torture. These traumatized children sit in centers alone without their parents, and without legal advocates, they don’t know what is happening or where their parents are. There are no public defenders for these children, so if their cases are not taken on by non-profit American groups, children as young as two are required to stand in front of judges alone and “defend themselves."

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN.

We will fight for these kids like we’d fight if they were our kids. Because they are.

We will fight for these mothers like we’d fight if they were our sisters. Because they are.

FIRST: We are going to help get these babies back into their parents’ arms.

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SECOND: Tomorrow, we will share a grassroots, focused, and united demand for policy change. WE THE PEOPLE WILL DEMAND THE REVERSAL OF THIS INHUMANE POLICY OF TEARING FAMILIES APART.

For now: Children are alone, right now, traumatized in these detention centers, desperate for their parents. Parents are sitting in detention centers, right now, desperate for their babies. They loved their babies enough to risk their lives to get them to safety. They love their babies. Just like we do. Just like we do. For now: Do not allow your heartbreak to go wasted. TURN YOUR HEARTBREAK FOR THESE CHILDREN INTO HELP FOR THESE CHILDREN.

If my country was ravaged with violence and my children were in constant danger, I hope I’d have the courage to do whatever it took to get them to safety. I hope that when we got there, we’d be cared for instead of terrorized. And if I were ever separated from Chase, Tish, and Amma, I’d hope that some mothers, somewhere out there, would care enough to get them back to me.

Today we give our kids Love.

Tomorrow we give our lawmakers Hell.

"I think sometimes it takes a democracy to be threatened for people to understand that this is what democracy looks like ... There are some people that are guilty, but we are all responsible."