Help us tell DHS that they need to follow the law and exempt unaccompanied children and asylum seekers from the southern border closure and that they must protect immigrant families in detention and not attempt to separate children from their parents. 

We must #StandWithChildren today! 

Protect Children and Asylum Seekers

Unaccompanied children—one of the world’s most vulnerable groups—are currently being denied entry into the United States.

Under recent Trump Administration orders, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closed the U.S. southern border to unaccompanied children and asylum seekers. Now, as arriving children seek to escape violence, trafficking, and death, DHS is turning them away. By summarily returning kids who need protection, the administration is putting them at risk of trafficking and persecution while violating bipartisan laws designed to protect the most vulnerable.

In addition, the administration is now attempting to separate families again by giving them an impossible choice of either releasing their children and the rights to their children or remain together in detention.  This is not a choice anyone should have to make.