Millions of migrants and people seeking safety are at risk because of the U.S President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Take action and urge him to respect human rights.
What is the problem?
U.S. President Donald Trump has already started to implement a mass deportation campaign targeting millions of migrants and people seeking safety.
His plans rely on mass arrests, detentions, and removals of both long standing and recently arrived people. His actions are depriving asylum-seekers and migrants the opportunity to ask for safety, throw them into arbitrary detention, return them to harm, separate families, tear apart communities, subject people to racial profiling, spread fear, and undermine human security, prosperity, and dignity.
The U.S. government has an obligation under international law to ensure that its laws, policies, and practices do not place migrants and people seeking safety at an increased risk of human rights abuses. While the U.S., like all countries, has the power to regulate the entry and stay of non-nationals in its territory, it can only do so within the limits of its human rights obligations.
A mass deportation campaign violates multiple rights, including protection against return to a country where people are at real risk of torture and other serious human rights harms (refoulement); the right to seek asylum; freedom from arbitrary detention; due process; family unity and children’s rights; and non-discrimination. It also tears apart communities, families, and the economy. Take action and call on President Trump to halt the mass deportations campaign.
What can you do to help?
Help us urge President Trump to respect the human rights of migrants and people seeking safety, and abandon his mass deportation campaign.