ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children

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For months, ICE has been targeting young children – arresting kids with cancer, patrolling near schools, and even "deporting" U.S. citizen kids. In October, ICE conducted a nightmarish raid on a Chicago apartment building – reportedly pulling young kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, separating them from their parents, zip-tying them, and putting them in trucks on the side of the street.

At Stephen Miller's direction, the administration has been working to remove legal protections from vulnerable children who came to the U.S. alone seeking protection or to reunite with family. As part of ICE's latest campaign, children as young as 14 are being pressured to sign incredibly disturbing documents, giving up their asylum claims, and accepting criminal liability if they fail to leave the U.S. We've even heard reports that ICE agents are telling kids that if they don't sign these documents – sending them back to countries where they face abuse, neglect, or even trafficking – their parents will go to prison.

It's horrific. ICE is traumatizing children with these 'enforcement' operations – then trying to strip them of their due process rights when they are alone, without attorneys or family to help them. This campaign of terror needs to end. Tell ICE to stop these operations now – and tell Congress to introduce legislation that ensures no child is arrested without a warrant and coerced to give up their rights by immigration police.

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U.S. Senators and House Representatives; Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem

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The recipients:

U.S. Senators and House Representatives; Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem

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Subject Take action to stop ICE's abuses against children

Over the last several weeks, ICE has become a parent's worst nightmare: In Chicago, children were dragged from their beds in the middle of the night, zip-tied, separated from their parents, and put in trucks for hours. But now, ICE is targeting some of the most vulnerable children – those who came alone to the U.S. in search of protection or to reunite with their families. The administration has been taking these children away from sponsors, including parents, and putting them in detention. And now, as part of its latest operation, ICE is pressuring unaccompanied children to give up their rights to go to court and to abandon their applications for protection in the U.S. In some cases, children who have been taken from their families are reportedly told that their parents will go to jail if they don't sign a document and leave the U.S. This is abuse and is not how our country should ever treat children.

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Every child should be treated with dignity and care. I urge you to take action to stop these abusive campaigns against children and put an end to the traumatizing, dehumanizing, and manipulative tactics that define current ICE operations.

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ICE: Stop Terrorizing Children

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