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Congress Should Invest in Humane Solutions, not Broken Systems
On October 20, the White House sent Congress a new request for $8.7 billion in supplemental funding for border enforcement, which included $4.5 billion for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and $2.5 billion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Quixote Center issued the following statement in response:
“We staunchly oppose any additional funding for ICE or CBP that is intended to further detain, surveil, and rapidly deport migrants and their families. We support the use of funding to bolster asylum processing and support humanitarian services, but this cannot be paired with over-enforcement and restrictions on asylum access. We denounce the request to fund deportation flights from foreign countries, such as Panama, where our migrant shelter partners have witnessed first-hand the fatal impact of our government’s policy of border externalization.”
“We call on Congress to reject any additional requested funds for increased immigration enforcement and detention. Instead of repeating the same failed deterrence strategies, which make the journey for migrants far more deadly and exacerbate the humanitarian crisis at borders across the region, we urge Congress to fund humane solutions that affirm the dignity and humanity of migrants and defend the human right to seek asylum. Instead of militarization, detention, and deportation, our government should invest those same billions in migrant services so that communities across the United States can thrive.”
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“The Quixote Center empowers vulnerable families and communities to become the artisans of their own destiny through transforming oppressive systems and structures. Inspired by liberation theology and Catholic Social Teaching, we do this through sustainable development, advocacy, economic justice, environmental, and educational initiatives. Our current focus is on Nicaragua and Haiti, where we support programs to empower impoverished families and communities, and support for migrants in Mexico and Central America, where we work to mitigate the damage of US immigration policies. Together with our partners, we dream of a world more justly loving.”