In response to the brutal separation of immigrant families now taking place under the current administration’s ‘zero-tolerance’ policy, we have been receiving a number of inquiries from spiritual leaders asking: “What can we do?”
As we develop our plans this week for a summer of mobilization to end family separation, here are three things you can do in the short-term:
1) Click here to sign this clergy and elders letter denouncing this barbaric policy of taking children from their parents, and ask three of your colleagues to do the same.
2) Join a National Faith in Action/La Red emergency call this Wednesday, June 20 at 4 pm ET/3 pm CT/2 pm MT/1 p PT. Click here to access the call-in information.
3) Call your Congressional Representatives and Senators today to demand that they do everything they can to shine a light on this injustice and to stop this inhumane treatment of children and families. Use the Faith in Action congressional hotline: (844) 332-6361; alternatively, you can call directly—find contact information:
- Senator Robert Casey: http://casey.senate.gov
- Senator Pat Toomey: http://toomey.senate.gov
- Your Representative: http://www.house.gov
We will not stand by while children are traumatized and families are separated in our name. We will pray, teach, vote and mobilize our communities of faith to resist all policies that punish our immigrant families and to promote policies that will end the separation of families in the months ahead.
Nor will we abide the invocation of sacred texts to justify this shameful policy.
We have lost our way as a nation. We will stand together in all the names of our Creator to call us back as a nation to a vision rooted in hope rather than fear; to trust in G-d rather than anxiety; to compassion rather than punishment; to love rather than hate.
In all of these efforts, we will seek to call us back as a people and, perhaps, to save the soul of America.
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