[HNA] Fwd: [Presente-Honduras] HSN Peition: Obama, Don't Deport the Children!

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From: Victoria Cervantes <victorialcervantes at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:39 PM
Subject: [Presente-Honduras] HSN Peition: Obama, Don't Deport the Children!
To: Presente Honduras <presente-honduras at lists.mayfirst.org>



Honduras

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*Join with the Honduras Solidarity Network in demanding justice for child
refugees from Central America*

 Tell President Obama not to deport child refugees!

*Sign the Honduras Solidarity Network's petition!*
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President Obama,

We are appalled and saddened by the refugee crisis on the US border.
Children fleeing military and police, drug cartel, corporate violence and
extreme poverty in Central America, to reunite with family members in the
United States, cannot and must not be viewed through a nativist lens as
illegal aliens, but rather as the refugees that they are.

The problem that is fueling the flow of child refugees is in part blowback
from US policy in the 1980s when our government trained and funded
Salvadoran and Guatemalan military and police to prevent popular
revolutions, and more recently when the US supported the coup against
President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.  US foreign policy, anchored in the
militarized Drug War and pursued by both the Democratic and Republican
administrations, has only empowered brutal and corrupt armies and police
forces, particularly in Honduras and Guatemala.

We are especially saddened and incensed that that your  $3.7 billion
request to Congress for emergency funds to deal with the refugee crisis
contains almost $2 billion for more incarceration and removal of minors and
refugees, without regard to their due process rights or the root causes of
their desperate flight from their home countries, suspending a 2008 law
which requires minors to be transferred out of detention to centers where
they can locate family members to care for them.

*We Demand that: *

*1. The US abide by international treaties and US laws concerning the
treatment and due process rights of refugees claiming asylum and of minor
children, and *


*2. Stop all deportations until a comprehensive immigration reform bill,
based on human rights and family reunification, not militarization of the
border, is passed by Congress, and  *

*3. Thoroughly revise our trade and economic, drug and military policies so
that they respect the right of self-determination of the peoples of Central
America and Mexico to create alternatives to displacement and migration
with living wage jobs, prosperous communities and accountable and
democratic governments. *

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Add your voice to these three demands by signing the Honduras Solidarity
Network's petition!
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