But the Trump regime and its Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services want to EXPAND THE LENGTH OF TIME children can be detained at the U.S. border.
In the spring and summer of 2018, huge numbers of Americans vigorously protested Trump’s deliberately cruel “zero tolerance” policies. But the Trump regime — in defiance of overwhelming public opposition — is planning to EXPAND family detention. It wants to withdraw from the Flores settlement agreement – a federal consent decree that has set the standard for the detention of migrant children since 1997. The Flores Agreement is the determinative federal standard that currently protects these children.
PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in order to DEMAND that she STOP the withdrawal or termination of the Flores settlement agreement instead of hurting even more children:
Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org
