10/24/2025
Worth reading! This is why we are establishing a legal aid fund!
Will James CEO
"But they’re illegal!” people say. Maybe YOU even thought this...But Please. Please take 2 minutes to LEARN WHAT made so many “illegal” overnight!
We broke a promise. We offered asylum—and then we took it away. Thousands of immigrants came here legally through official programs like CBP One. They were fingerprinted, screened, and granted work permits by our own government. We met them at the border and said, “Come in, you are safe here.” They followed every rule, worked hard, and built lives. Then, overnight, their work permits were revoked and their asylum cases erased.
Imagine the government sells you a driver’s license. They test you, approve you, hand you the card, and say, “Welcome—you’re now allowed to drive.” You buy a car, start working, pay taxes, and follow every rule. You build your entire life around that permission. Then one morning, without warning, they change their mind—take back the license—and arrest you for driving. That’s what’s happening to thousands of immigrants right now. They were invited, vetted, and given legal work permits and asylum trials. They followed the law. And now they’re being punished for believing the government’s own promise.
These are parents who tuck their children in at night, people who cook our meals, clean our offices, and build our homes. They are the man who fixed your heater, the woman who bags your groceries, the boy who stocks your shelves. Every day, children come home from school and learn that their mother or father has been taken from them. Their biggest fear is being torn from their families. Animals in this country are treated with more compassion.
A sickening number of asylum seekers have been assaulted and detained outside courthouses—arrested on their way to the asylum trials we promised them. Arrested for following the law. That is the very definition of injustice.
Take Milli, for example. She did everything right. She showed up for her asylum trial in Atlanta, where immigration officers grabbed her outside the courthouse and shoved her violently into a vehicle as her one-year-old son, three-year-old daughter, and husband watched in horror. Is that the America we want?
My friend Pablo worked the night shift in a chicken factory in Chicago. He had a valid work permit—until his boss came in and fired him because, overnight, that permit was void. Pablo did everything right. When he arrived at the border, they welcomed him, gave him permission to work. Then, in the middle of the night, the government revoked it and arrested him for trying to support his family. Now he cannot get a job. How will he feed his son?
They believed in the American promise—that if you play by the rules, you’ll have a chance. Now they live in terror that any knock at the door could mean separation from their children. This isn’t just a policy change—it’s a betrayal of trust. Maybe we should uphold the asylum WE offered; at least give them a fair trial. America granted them shelter—and then one day took it away. We broke our promise.
America Broke Its Promise to Asylum Seekers
