Urgent Action: Border Officials Forcibly Separate Families (USA: UA 256.17)

US border agency officials forcibly separated four Central American asylum-seeking fathers from their children after their arrival to the US, in violation of US standards on family unity during immigration detention. The parents are subsequently suffering from emotional distress, and the whereabouts of two of the children are still unknown.

1) TAKE ACTION
Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

• Calling on CBP authorities to follow US national detention standards that require them to process family members together and maintain family unity;
• Calling on ICE to immediately reunite the four families in family detention; expedite the families’ parole; and, whenever possible, provide alternatives to detention for all families as their asylum claims are considered;
• Urging the DHS Inspector General to investigate CBP and ICE practices, to ensure DHS agency officials are not separating asylum-seeking parents from their children in detention in violation of US polices on family unity. 

  Contact these two officials by 3 January, 2018:

  Border Community Liaison
  Toby Don Sosbee
  US Customs and Border Protection
  San Diego Field Office
  610 W. Ash Street Suite 1200
  San Diego, CA 92101 USA
  Email: [email protected]
  Salutation: Dear Mr. Sosbee

  ICE San Diego Field Office Director
  Gregory J. Archambeault
  ICE San Diego Field Office
  880 Front Street #2232
  San Diego, CA 92101 USA
  Email: [email protected]
  Salutation: Dear Mr. Archambeault

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