Projet de Renforcement de la Cohésion Sociale et de la Sécurité Communauteire.

For weeks, the headlines have been dominated by stories of children getting ripped away from their parents at the border. I, like so many others, was heartbroken to see images of families being torn apart, and to hear the audio of detained children crying.

Sandra lives in Silt with her husband, and three U.S. citizen children–ages 2, 13, and 18.

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Rosa, a church secretary, has lived in the U.S. for over 30 years and cares for her parents, who are U.S. citizens.

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Facing deportation, Ingrid made the hard decision to return to sanctuary.

Araceli, a mother of three, fled El Salvador in 2010 fearing for her life.

AFSC joins with people across the country in calling for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—and we hope you will join us. 

ICE has a long history of separating families and terrorizing our communities—it’s time to stop its abuses once and for all.

Here's what you need to know about the call to abolish ICE:

“I have no idea of submitting tamely to injustice inflicted either on me or on the [enslaved]. I will oppose it with all the moral powers with which I am endowed. I am no advocate of passivity.” – Lucretia Mott, Quaker abolitionist

In 2012 I accompanied a young immigrant woman to a deportation hearing in Denver. The woman I accompanied was the mother of a sixteen-month-old citizen child. All that she had done was come to the United States without papers.