Families Belong Together

She packed for Thanksgiving. She ended up deported. No person should be in fear while traveling this holiday season. 💔

Every family deserves to be together, always. #FamiliesBelongTogether

These bishops are courageously using their voices and influence to defend our communities, and demand dignity and humanity for our immigrant loved ones. This is what solidarity looks like. ✊❤️

“I’m scared for my parents to walk out of their house, because I might not be able to say goodbye.”

ICE is targeting, detaining, and deporting the parents of those in our communities, and tearing families apart one loved one at a time. #FamiliesBelongTogether

ICE and federal agents have brought nothing but fear and harm to our communities — this weekend proved it again.

Our families and neighbors deserve dignity, safety, and respect. No more family separation. No more terror. Border Patrol out of NC NOW!

No child should ever see their teacher taken away in front of them. Immigration enforcement has no place in a day care. Our communities deserve safety, dignity, and compassion, not fear. 💔

Chicago Tribune Editorial

Daycares should be safe places for our kids, period.

A daycare teacher in Chicago was targeted and taken by ICE. Right from work. ICE does not respect or care for the members of our communities. They want to terrorize communities of color. We all must stand against it. ICE out of daycares. #KeepFamiliesTogether

ICE arrested and detained the parents of Steve Rios, a US Marine, while they were trying to visit their pregnant daughter, Ashley Rios, at Camp Pendleton, California.⁠

Our parents and our families belong together — not locked in cages, far from the people they love.

Story via: @nbcsandiego.com

Our friends and loved ones should not have to live in fear of stepping outside their homes. They should not have to live in fear of praying at their places of worship.

We must all do everything possible to protect our loved ones and keep our families and communities together.

On Oct. 13, Fidel chose to self-deport—leaving behind his wife, Jennifer, and their U.S. citizen children.

No family should ever have to choose between safety and being together.

Families belong together.
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Sergio was separated from his family and his community. Nobody should live in fear of being torn apart from the home they’ve built, the friends they’ve made, and the loved ones who care about them.

Families belong together.

Xóchitl, a DACA recipient and community organizer, came home and reunited with her loved ones after a frightening ordeal that never should have happened. 💙 Her release reminds us what we fight for: families safe, whole, and together. Every family belongs together, today and always.

Protecting DACA means keeping families together.

#ProtectDACA #FamiliesBelongTogether

Paulo—a DACA recipient who has lived in the U.S. since childhood—was ripped from his family and unjustly detained. Yesterday, he was finally released.

Today, we celebrate Alejandra, Paulo, and their family finally being home together, where they belong. ❤️

Families belong together. Always.

After weeks of fear and heartbreak, Alejandra, Paulo, and their children are finally reunited.

ICE tore this family apart just weeks after their newborn girl came home from the NICU.

Educators, schools, and neighbors are stepping up to protect families and keep ICE from tearing students away from their communities.

Here are the stories from across the country of communities coming together to protect each other. Families belong together.

After being detained by ICE in Colorado last month during a work trip, violinist John Shin was released after 17 days thanks to the relentless advocacy of his wife Danae and their community.

His experience is a powerful reminder: families belong together.

Jorge should still be with his family and his community. #FamiliesBelongTogether

Coast to coast, our gente showed up. Even with ICE separating families, we came together to celebrate who we are with our communities. ✊🏽🇲🇽

#HispanicHeritageMonth #FamiliesBelongTogether

For 13 years, our community has defended this program against constant attacks. DACA recipients are part of the fabric of our communities and American in every way but on paper. They deserve protection. #ProtectDACA

For more than a decade, DACA has transformed lives, families, and our communities.

DACA protects people from deportation so they can stay with loved ones. It provides access to work permits and higher education. It empowers immigrant youth to pursue their dreams and give back.

“And I want the world to know that I’m really sad. Sometimes I’m sad. Sometimes I’m mad. Sometimes I don’t know what to feel.”

Video from: @flowerinspanish

Every day Xóchitl, a DACA recipient and community organizer, spends in detention is time she’ll never get back with her family.

She deserves freedom, dignity, and the right to stay in the only home she’s ever known.

#FreeXochitl

Video footage with @belensisa.bsky.social

Courthouses are places of justice, not fear. Every family deserves dignity. Every family deserves safety. Families belong together.

Swipe through to see stories of some of the faith leaders who are showing up for those who are being targeted by ICE.

Church leaders are showing up to support community members who are simply trying to navigate the system and follow the process.

Families belong together.

This should shock the conscience of every American. Even within a failed immigration system, the deliberate, continual denial of due process must be confronted. If the gov't can lie, disappear, & coerce one man, while holding his freedom hostage, then no one’s rights are safe.

On Friday, he stood firm, refusing coercion and declaring: “Promise me you’ll keep fighting, praying, believing in dignity and liberty—not just for me but for all.”

Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a father, husband, union member, and day laborer—has been forced through half a year of unimaginable government abuse: disappeared to a foreign torture prison, lied about, and under imminent threat of deportation to Uganda and separation from his family.

Because families belong together. Always.