"Since last October, U.S. border patrol has apprehended more than 52,000
unaccompanied children fleeing extreme violence from El Salvador,
Guatemala and Honduras. Congress has introduced new legislation that would deport children to
their home countries without meaningful screening. Sending these
children back to extreme violence is an effective death sentence.
These children clearly need protection, care and rehabilitation:
yet this new proposal would see them stripped of their rights and turned
away at our borders. Forcing vulnerable children back into dangerous or
deadly situations is simply too high a cost to pay. Tell Senator Reid to protect trafficked and persecuted children and stand with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). Click here for more information and online petition.W
