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ICE charges $8 a minute to parents to speak by phone with their children

July 23, 2018
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  • ICE Resistance

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Do you want to speak by phone with your child that ICE just took away from you? Okay, pay just $8 per minute. More than 145 members of the House and Senate speak out against charging migrant parents up to $8/min. to speak with their kids

Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., rallied 143 other members of Congress to demand immigration detention facilities immediately end their practice of charging migrant parents as much as $8 per minute to speak with their children by telephone.

More than 2,400 migrant parents have been separated from their children under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy.

 

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