[IMC] Immigration agents took away his father

[Layla Razavi, AFSC]

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American Friends Service Committee

A boy named Fortune

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Dear Friend,

I need to tell you about a boy named Fortune.

He was in high school when immigration agents arrived at his father's workplace one morning and took him away to an immigrant detention center. His father, who had lived in New Jersey for 16 years, had been arrested for violating immigration law. Fortune shared his story with AFSC:

"My little brother who was 7 years old asked where his dad was. I told him that he traveled but will be back soon. He would cry at night and say he will not sleep if his dad is not home ... When I went to visit my father, I would see many kids there visiting their parents, and it made me upset. I always wondered why people would send good fathers and good people to jail ... We want to be with our parents because without them, we are lost."

Every year, the U.S. imprisons nearly half a million immigrants in over 250 detention centers -- with devastating effects to their lives and the lives of their families and communities. AFSC advocates for human rights for immigrants and is working to change the terrible policies and treatment involved in detention and deportation. Your donation today will support immigrant rights and all of AFSC's work for peace and justice in the year ahead. Please give before December 31 and your gift will be tax-deductible for 2015. Click here: https://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50601/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=12559&tag=2015YE4A&lgacf=0.00

Detention tears apart families and results in lost wages for households struggling to get by. Many immigrants are locked up merely for being suspected of committing an immigration violation and are waiting to see a judge. Immigrants can be locked up for months, even years, without a single charge filed against them.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities look a lot like prisons. Barbed wire fences line the perimeter of many facilities. Inside some centers, detainees are held in what they call "las hieleras" -- Spanish for "the iceboxes" -- rooms so cold they feel like walk-in freezers.

Detainees have been refused access to health care, even in emergencies. Between October 2003 and May 2015, more than 150 people have died on ICE's watch, according to the agency's own count.

There's growing momentum in the U.S. to stop immigrant detention. AFSC directly supports immigrant and refugee communities across the U.S. while advocating in Washington, D.C. to limit the use of detention. You can support AFSC's immigration rights programs across the country and our advocacy work for policy changes by making a tax-deductible gift by December 31. Click here: https://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/50601/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=12559&tag=2015YE4A&lgacf=0.00

Sincerely,

Layla Razavi
Human Migration and Mobility Director
American Friends Service Committee

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