UPDATE: The fight is not over. Now the Trump administration is pushing for indefinite detention of immigrants in family prison camps. We won't stop until we end the zero tolerance policy on prosecuting asylum seekers, put real checks on the government's authority to separate families, and reunite every family that has been torn apart.
 
Join Mainers and members of our immigrant community from all across the state to demand an end to the Trump Administration’s unjust and inhumane "zero tolerance" policy of detaining asylum-seeking children and families at the border.

Want to donate to help cover costs? https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/keep-families-together

HOSTED BY: 
Mainers For Accountable Leadership • Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition• ACLU of Maine • The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center • Maine Equal Justice Partners • Maine NAACP • Center for Civic and Community Engagement • Moral Movement Maine • Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP) @Maine People's Alliance

NATIONAL PARTNERS: 
MoveOn • National Domestic Workers Alliance • The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights • ACLU 

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ENGLISH: Families Belong Together opposes the cruel, inhumane and unjustified separation of children from their parents along the U.S. border with Mexico and at other ports of entry into the U.S. We protest the conditions in which these children are kept. We protest the irreversible trauma that has already been perpetrated on these children and their parents for the crime of seeking a better life.

To separate immigrant families, victims of violence, hunger and poverty, is to re-violate them. Children as young as 18 months are torn from their mother’s arms by the U.S. government. This is violent abuse. These families are victimized again by the government to which they turn for help. Families Belong Together opposes the inhumane policies of the Trump Administration, Border Patrol, and I.C.E. and calls for immediate reform.

ESPAÑOL: Familias Unidas, No Divididas rechaza la separación cruel, inhumana e injustificada de niños de sus padres a lo largo de la frontera de los Estados Unidos con México y en otros puertos de entrada a los EE. UU. Protestamos por las condiciones en las que se mantienen a estos niños. Protestamos contra el trauma irreversible que ya se ha perpetrado contra estos niños y sus padres por el delito de buscar una vida mejor.

Separar a las familias inmigrantes, familias víctima de la violencia, el hambre y la pobreza es volver a violentarlas. El gobierno de los Estados Unidos separa a niños de tan solo 18 meses de los brazos de sus madres. Esto es abuso. Estas familias son nuevamente victimizadas por el gobierno al que acuden en busca de ayuda. Familias Unidas, No Divididas se opone a las políticas inhumanas de la administración de Donald Trump, Protección Fronteriza y I.C.E. y pide una reforma inmediata.

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Saturday, June 30, 2018 - 3:00pm to
Sunday, July 1, 2018 - 4:45pm

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Portland, ME 04101
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Trump signs executive order, harsh treatment persists

After immense public pressure, Donald Trump signed an executive order that he claims would fix the issue of family separations at the border. However, more than 2,300 children have already been separated from their parents. For many, the nightmare is just beginning.

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