{"id":13282,"date":"2015-03-02T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/?p=13282"},"modified":"2015-03-02T10:53:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T15:53:30","slug":"sign-the-uu-service-committees-petition-to-end-the-jailing-of-refugee-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/sign-the-uu-service-committees-petition-to-end-the-jailing-of-refugee-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign the UU Service Committee&#8217;s Petition to End the Jailing of  Refugee Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/sign-the-uu-service-committees-petition-to-end-the-jailing-of-refugee-children\/action_alert_immigration\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13283\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"action_alert_immigration\" src=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/action_alert_immigration.jpg\" width=\"539\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/action_alert_immigration.jpg 770w, https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/action_alert_immigration-300x77.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/actnow.uusc.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=EndtheJailingofRefugeeChildren&amp;AddInterest=1022\">End Jailing of Refugee Children Petition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1.5em;\">Background<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jail is no place for children.<\/p>\n<p>Yet hundreds of refugee children and their mothers are currently being imprisoned in for-profit detention camps, which are essentially jails, in the Southwestern United States. This is a violation of their basic dignity and human rights. Join us in calling on President Obama to release these imprisoned children.<\/p>\n<p>Malnourishment and severe sickness are common among children in the camps. Schooling appears to be sporadic. Overcrowded living conditions are the norm. The\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>recently reported on the horrors in these camps under the headline, &#8220;<a title=\"&quot;The Shame of America's Detention Camps&quot; article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/08\/magazine\/the-shame-of-americas-family-detention-camps.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The Shame of America\u2019s Family Detention Camps<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Refugee children around the world cross borders into neighboring countries to seek safe haven. At the U.S. border, we detain these children, creating a physical barrier to the outside world. There is currently a mass exodus of women and children fleeing violence in Central America and arriving in the United States seeking refuge. Our administration\u2019s answer is to imprison them, often for months at a time, until a decision is a made on whether or not to grant them asylum in the United States. If deported, their fate is unknown; these women and children face brutal persecution in their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>Why are these refugee children locked up? Simply because they came to the United States seeking a safe haven.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to have a heart and uphold basic human dignity. We need to cast light on this travesty and\u00a0<a title=\"Sign the petition to President Obama today.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uusc.org\/jailedchildren#sign\" target=\"_blank\">call on President Obama to immediately end the detention of refugee children and their mothers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jail is no place for children.<\/p>\n<p>Yet hundreds of refugee children and their mothers are currently being imprisoned in for-profit detention camps, which are essentially jails, in the Southwestern United States. This is a violation of their basic dignity and human rights. Join us in calling on President Obama to release these imprisoned children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,73,3],"tags":[1496,1520,1596],"class_list":["post-13282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-immigration","category-news","tag-human-rights","tag-immigration","tag-refugee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13285,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/revisions\/13285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uusj.net\/wp1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}