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Date: Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:39 PM<br>Subject: [Presente-Honduras] HSN Peition: Obama, Don't Deport the Children!<br>To: Presente Honduras <<a href="mailto:presente-honduras@lists.mayfirst.org">presente-honduras@lists.mayfirst.org</a>><br>
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<span style="text-decoration:underline;letter-spacing:0px"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fhondurassolidaritynetwork" target="_blank"></a></span><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FHondurasSolidarityNetwork" style="letter-spacing:0px" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<u></u><u></u>HondurasSolidarityNetwork</a></div>
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<p style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-size:x-large"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b>Join with the Honduras Solidarity Network in demanding justice for child refugees from Central America</b></span></span></p><p style="font-size:16px">
<span style="font-size:x-large"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><img src="https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/7315/images/HSN%20petition%203.JPG" alt="" height="234" width="650"></b></span></span></p><h2 style="border-top-width:8px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(65,65,65);margin:0pt 0pt 10px;padding:10px 0pt 0pt;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">
<span style="color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:Domine,serif;font-size:30px;font-weight:500;line-height:39px">Tell President Obama not to deport child refugees!</span></h2><p style="margin:0pt 0pt 12px;padding:0pt;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;color:rgb(102,102,102);text-align:center">
<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Forg2.salsalabs.com%2Fo%2F7315%2Fp%2Fdia%2Faction3%2Fcommon%2Fpublic%2F%3Faction_KEY%3D18133" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:medium"><b>Sign the Honduras Solidarity Network's petition!</b></span></a></p>
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President Obama, </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">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. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">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.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;color:rgb(20,20,18);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:21px">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.</p>
<p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px"><b><font color="#141412" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">We Demand that: </span></font></b></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px">
<b><font color="#141412" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">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 </span></font></b></p>
<p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px"><b><font color="#141412" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">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 </span></font><font color="#141412" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px"><br>
</span></font></b></p><p style="font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px"><b><font color="#141412" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:21px">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. </span></font></b></p>
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<a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Forg2.salsalabs.com%2Fo%2F7315%2Fp%2Fdia%2Faction3%2Fcommon%2Fpublic%2F%3Faction_KEY%3D18133" target="_blank">Add your voice to these three demands by signing the Honduras Solidarity Network's petition!</a></h1>
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