Sign the petition: Child detention centers (add your name)

Tell all Democratic candidates to visit the Homestead child detention center near Miami to see the horrific conditions themselves

Dear fellow MoveOn member,

I'm Meagan, a MoveOn member in North Palm Beach, FL, and I visited the Homestead child detention center located near Miami last week. I was absolutely horrified by the overcrowding and prison-like conditions that children seeking asylum were living in.  

 

That's why I started a petition to the 2020 Democratic candidates, 20 of whom will be in Miami today and tomorrow for the debates, to also visit this detention center and see the horror themselves.

We are calling on all the Democratic candidates for president to personally visit the Homestead Child Detention Center while they are in South Florida this week for the debates.

The U.S. government is currently holding many immigrant children, many of whom have been separated from their families by U.S. immigration officials in South Florida. They are fleeing violence and poverty in Central America and are seeking asylum in the United States.

Instead of being released to family members or other sponsors, many are spending weeks or months in inhumane detention. 

We are imploring the Democratic candidates to go to Homestead and see the detention center for themselves. Every day, there are witnesses who hold up signs over the fence in support of the children and tell them they are not alone. Already, Beto O'Rourke, Eric Swalwell, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg have gone or are going. All of the candidates for president must join in.

We must get these children out of detention and reunite them with their families.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

—Meagan Bell

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