Heading into this massive jail in San Diego where ICE incarcerates immigrants and asylum seekers. Met last night with three moms who’ve been held here going on two months, their children torn from them at the border. We cried together. Their bravery astounds.
One mom has only been able to talk to her 12 year old son once since he was taken from her. She has a number to call for the government shelter where he’s held but she calls over and over and there’s no answer. She puts slips of paper in a complaint box for ICE and hears nothing.
She has problems sleeping because she spends the nights crying. She remembers her son crying when they were separated, how the officers didn’t even let her explain to him what was happening.
If you are hoping DHS is taking steps to reunify the families already separated (thousands), please know THEY ARE NOT. ICE could release these moms today to their waiting families, to their children who are so scared. This is our government perpetrating human rights abuses.
There is a better way. We could welcome asylum seekers and immigrants into our communities, support them, applaud their strength. We could reject our nation’s legacy of separating families, not repeat atrocities anew. immigrantjustice.org/research-items… #FamiliesBelongTogether #Not1More
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