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WELCOME TO FREEDOM
AMBASSADORS
MISSION STATEMENT: No-Child-Left-Behind-Bars
To end the U.S. policy of
incarcerating immigrant children and their families -- many of whom are
seeking asylum from murderous regimes -- by raising a groundswell of
public outrage through outreach and education, as well as exerting heavy
pressure in the bastions of power -- local, state, and national;
To curtail the current expansion and
building of for-profit prisons and to stop DHS/ICE from channeling
mega-millions in tax dollars into these private enterprises, owned and
managed by a few companies that reap obscene profits;
To demand that our lawmakers reduce
the cost of monitoring immigrants with less restrictive and less demeaning
methods that allow them to continue productive lives in a family unit
while awaiting a decision on their status;
To expose all lawmakers who accept
campaign contributions from the privatized prison industry and thus signal
their approval of the exploitation of human misery for profit;
To challenge the notion that being
the supreme leader in incarceration, with one quarter of all the world's
prisoners, makes our country safer and more secure;
And to bring about a new national
awareness about how fear-based politics are eroding the benefits of
health, education, and well-being that have made our country strong in the
past.
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