To sign go to: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/atheists-and-humanists-condemn-human-rights-crisis
The influx of Central American families and unaccompanied minors at the U.S. border has escalated into a human rights crisis which some have exploited to make xenophobic, racist and nativist attacks against undocumented immigrants and refugees. Over the past few months, thousands of underage youth fleeing violence and instability in their native countries have been warehoused in substandard Homeland Security facilities. According to the ACLU some have suffered abuse at the hands of border officials. This week, angry protestors stormed and turned away buses full of predominantly women and children detainees in Murrieta, California. These attacks will only increase, as they are part of a national climate of hatred, hostility and discrimination against undocumented individuals and their families (which are often of mixed citizenship status) and communities. These attacks have been encouraged by the Republican-controlled House’s refusal to pass a comprehensive humane immigration bill that is informed by the progressive legacy of civil and human rights resistance forged by disenfranchised communities in this country.
As humanists and atheists of conscience, we find this climate of demonization morally and politically reprehensible. We categorically condemn the anti “illegal” immigrant and anti-human rights vitriol promoted by Republicans like California Congressman Darrell Issa who has called for the Obama administration to rescind its Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. We fundamentally oppose the Obama administration’s escalation of deportation on the grounds that it is inhumane, breaks up families, and exposes both undocumented and citizen youth to sexual exploitation, foster care placement, homelessness and incarceration...
Signatories:
Maggie Ardiente, The American Humanist Association
Toni Achebe Bell, Black Skeptics Group
Richard Carrier, Author
Greta Christina, Author/Activist
Rebecca Hensler, Grief Beyond Belief
Sikivu Hutchinson, Black Skeptics Los Angeles
Yvonne Divans Hutchinson, Educator
Anthony Pinn, Professor and author
Amy Roth, Los Angeles Atheist Women’s Group & Skepchick
Secular Woman
Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Spiritualist in Solidarity & Filmmaker/Activist
Hilaire Sobers, Skeptically Speaking
Frederick Sparks, Black Skeptics Group
Kimberly Veal, Black Freethinkers Network/POCBF
Donald Wright, Houston Black Non-Believers
