Families are being reunited. We won this fight through sheer persistence. Keep watching to ensure these promises hold.
September 22, 2018
Final supporters
We are the specialty coffee importers, roasters, and cafe professionals who bring you your daily cup of coffee. In doing coffee work, we often spend time in the global south where coffee is grown and harvested. Through our work we have seen the difficult conditions that many families in those regions face daily. Abject poverty, hunger, and lack of employment opportunity often drives families to look for a better life in the United States. More than that, in some areas the absence of the state and rule of law combined with uncontrolled organized crime and gang activity sends people fleeing for their lives to our borders.
While we applaud the President for ending new child separations, we ask for families who have been separated to be reunited immediately. We call on the President and Congress to approach all immigrants with empathy for their situations and for their feelings. We ask that the Administration, Congress, and the Justice Department step back from the current "zero tolerance" stance and work together, with the American people, to find solutions that are fair, legal, and morally sound. And we ask them to please remember that ours is a country founded by immigrants and that our national diversity makes us stronger and more resilient.
We stand united as an industry to demand that immigrants be treated with respect and dignity. Many of our ancestors came to the United States from far off lands looking for relief and better lives for themselves and their children. This is still the dream that drives people to our borders. We ask all to remember that the coffee they drink every morning comes from some of the same people who have come to our borders struggling to build a new life in this country-- they are human beings like us with needs and feelings and they have value. And finally we ask all to remember that no human being is "an illegal"-- they are people like us and, regardless of how they enter this country, they deserve our empathy.
Please consider donating to support keeping immigrant families together: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kidsattheborder
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July 23, 2018
The momentum is undeniable. This industry is showing its true values.
Reached 100 supporters
July 23, 2018
18 Comments
These children are no threat to our country or our safety.Start caring for others as you would want your own family members to be treated.
All people deserve the right to due process, dignity, and humanity. We need to end this narrative that certain categories of people do not deserve the same rights because they may or may not have broken a law that we created. Those seeking asylum especially need not be further traumatized when they get here - we should welcome them with open arms. We are talking about human beings who, like many of us, have to make difficult decisions every day to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.
I stand with asylum seekers, and immigrants and oppose corrupt detention centers profiting off of individuals and child separation. We are better than this.
I'm totally against how this administration are treating the children, this is inhuman. My heart hurt when I see the children crying and suffering for their parents!! We need stop this!!
"When a foreigner lives with you in your land, don’t take advantage of him. Treat the foreigner the same as a native. Love him like one of your own." Leviticus 19:34
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Families are being reunited. We won this fight through sheer persistence. Keep watching to ensure these promises hold.
September 22, 2018
Final supporters
We are the specialty coffee importers, roasters, and cafe professionals who bring you your daily cup of coffee. In doing coffee work, we often spend time in the global south where coffee is grown and harvested. Through our work we have seen the difficult conditions that many families in those regions face daily. Abject poverty, hunger, and lack of employment opportunity often drives families to look for a better life in the United States. More than that, in some areas the absence of the state and rule of law combined with uncontrolled organized crime and gang activity sends people fleeing for their lives to our borders.
While we applaud the President for ending new child separations, we ask for families who have been separated to be reunited immediately. We call on the President and Congress to approach all immigrants with empathy for their situations and for their feelings. We ask that the Administration, Congress, and the Justice Department step back from the current "zero tolerance" stance and work together, with the American people, to find solutions that are fair, legal, and morally sound. And we ask them to please remember that ours is a country founded by immigrants and that our national diversity makes us stronger and more resilient.
We stand united as an industry to demand that immigrants be treated with respect and dignity. Many of our ancestors came to the United States from far off lands looking for relief and better lives for themselves and their children. This is still the dream that drives people to our borders. We ask all to remember that the coffee they drink every morning comes from some of the same people who have come to our borders struggling to build a new life in this country-- they are human beings like us with needs and feelings and they have value. And finally we ask all to remember that no human being is "an illegal"-- they are people like us and, regardless of how they enter this country, they deserve our empathy.
Please consider donating to support keeping immigrant families together: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kidsattheborder
Updates
July 23, 2018
The momentum is undeniable. This industry is showing its true values.
Reached 100 supporters
July 23, 2018
18 Comments
The separation should never have been allowed to begin with. Make this right. Humanity first.
These children are no threat to our country or our safety.Start caring for others as you would want your own family members to be treated.
All people deserve the right to due process, dignity, and humanity. We need to end this narrative that certain categories of people do not deserve the same rights because they may or may not have broken a law that we created. Those seeking asylum especially need not be further traumatized when they get here - we should welcome them with open arms. We are talking about human beings who, like many of us, have to make difficult decisions every day to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.
I stand with asylum seekers, and immigrants and oppose corrupt detention centers profiting off of individuals and child separation. We are better than this.
I'm totally against how this administration are treating the children, this is inhuman. My heart hurt when I see the children crying and suffering for their parents!! We need stop this!!
"When a foreigner lives with you in your land, don’t take advantage of him. Treat the foreigner the same as a native. Love him like one of your own." Leviticus 19:34
I agree with the statements but because I am disabled (SSDI not SSI!) I can not type long lettersand at times can not focus in order to compose a letter or petition on my own. I therefore assert that my feelings are to be considered as those feelings represented by the original petition author, thank you.
Humankind Be both
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The separation should never have been allowed to begin with. Make this right. Humanity first.