Thank you for standing up for justice and keeping families
together.
Many of the individuals and families seeking
protection at the U.S border are fleeing horrific violence and have legitimate
requests for asylum — a protection long enshrined in U.S. and international
law. Criminalizing victims of violence and traumatizing children is not public
policy — it is simply cruel.
I am outraged by the callousness of this
administration and have called on the president to abandon his zero tolerance
policy. Earlier this month several of my home state colleagues and I went to
the federat prison in Sheridan to visit more than a hundred immigrant detainees
— some of whom have not talked with their families in weeks. We demanded that
the government improve their conditions and respect their due process rights.
When a U.S. District Court judge in California ruled
that the government's conduct 'shocks the conscience' and required the
reunification of families in 30 days, I led 79 of my colleagues in demanding
details about the administration's plans for complying.
There are more than 2,000 children who have been
separated from their parents as a result of this administration, and I will
keep fighting until all of them have been reunited. And then I will fight to
make sure it never happens again.
Sincerely,
Suzanne Bonamici
Member of Congress