Stand for Families: Here’s How to Take Action
In the past six weeks, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their parents at the border. Parents taken into criminal custody and prosecuted for illegal entry. Children as young as infants taken to detention centers away from their mom and dad.
Our Jewish values call us to champion the needs of the vulnerable in our society. That’s why, for 100 years, JFS has welcomed and supported refugees and immigrants in their efforts to rebuild their lives.
The United States was established by refugees and developed by generations of immigrants and how we treat the stranger reflects on the moral values and ideals of our nation.
The policy of separating children from their parents exposes families to unthinkable trauma and puts our nation’s very character at stake. Together, we must stand for families. We must stand for the protection and due process of immigrants and asylees.
In response to growing fear and apprehension within our community, JFS has helped launch the San Diego Rapid Response Network (SDRRN), a broad coalition of 40+ human rights and service organizations, attorneys and community leaders convened by the ACLU to educate, protect, and assist immigrant and refugee families with legal support and social services.
Within the Network, JFS is leading the legal response effort for any individual or family facing deportation and is committed to reuniting families who have been separated.
Immigrants seized by Border Patrol or I.C.E. have few resources to defend themselves. In many cases, their legal proceedings are expedited, and rulings on deportation are made in a matter of minutes. One such case involved a single mother in El Cajon, who was arrested while on her way to church with her family. The mother was swiftly deported and her children all U.S. citizens were left to decide whether to join her in Mexico or remain in the U.S. on their own.
In the short time since the SDRRN’s launch, JFS has provided legal assistance to 150 families facing deportation. But with current policies putting more and more families at risk, we need your help to carry out this vital work.
Please take action. Here’s what you can do:
Donate to JFS to support free legal assistance for families facing deportation.
Post on social media using the hashtags #EndFamilySeparation and #FamiliesBelongTogether. Sample post: Put an end to the new policy of making all asylum seekers criminals and separating the children from the parents.
Call the White House and leave a message. Sample Message: Put an end to the new policy of making all asylum seekers criminals and separating children from their parents. Comment line (202) 456-1111.
Contact your elected officials. Sample message: Tell the White House to put an end to the new policy of making all asylum seekers criminals and then separating the children from the parents.
L’Shalom,Thank you for standing for the protection of families seeking safety in our community.
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