As the holiday season winds down and ends, Inauguration Day approaches.
We need to keep the momentum going, the fight is not over. Limited access to asylum and safe migration routes under the guise of national security is still a critical issue.
You may wonder, "Why is safe asylum so important?" FNUSA's Senior Policy Specialist, Emma Ecker, explains in an interview for The Excerpt, a podcast from USA Today, "we have great legal protections in place, but when our asylum policies are more restrictive, and our immigration policies are more restrictive, we find that children are made more vulnerable to trafficking when they come to the United States accompanied. So, when their families are not able to access safety and safe work in the United States, when there are a lack of labor protections for children, they're more likely to end up in a forced labor situation. And when there's a lack of education and safe jobs for their placement adults, then that family is less likely to have a secure and healthy environment for those children."
FNUSA will keep fighting for robust asylum protections and support for unaccompanied minors. But we need YOUR HELP to show up for the community.
Please help protect survivors.
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