In December, AFSC gathered Quakers and faith leaders from many denominations to respond to the migrant caravans escaping poverty and violence in Central America and seeking safety in the U.S. – only to face the Trump administration’s cruel policies to separate families, detain immigrants, and expand the border wall.

This past winter, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists confirmed that their Doomsday Clock remains set at two minutes to midnight – the closest we have been to nuclear catastrophe since the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Children belong in schools and homes, not in prison camps. But today, the U.S. government is holding hundreds of children in detention at the border and in centers like the one in Homestead, Florida—and that number keeps growing.

Most of these children have fled violence and poverty in Central America and are seeking asylum in the United States. Many were separated from their family members or relatives after crossing into the U.S.