Six migrant children have died in U.S. custody this year. Hundreds more are held captive in filthy, overcrowded camps without access to soap, clean clothes or showers.
Home retailer Wayfair is helping to furnish these facilities.
Yesterday, hundreds of Wayfair employees walked out to protest their employer’s $200,000 contract to supply bedroom furniture to a concentration camp in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
But Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah insists it’s his company’s right to profit from the atrocities happening at the border. It’s time to escalate the pressure and show Wayfair just how many of us stand with employee calls to cancel the contract.
Stand with Wayfair employees: Call on Wayfair to stop profiting from concentration camps.
Psychologists warn that separating children from their parents puts them at grave risk of depression and PTSD — and the risks increase the longer kids are locked up.
This is about more than demanding “better” conditions for children in detention: it’s about insisting that no kids should be locked up simply for seeking a better life.
Trump’s cruel deportation regime depends on corporations like Wayfair that furnish its detention centers, fly deportation flights, and spy on immigrant communities. That’s why this moment is so important.
Wayfair execs are feeling the heat.
They just promised to donate $100,000 to the Red Cross to help migrants at the border. But this does nothing to address worker’s demands that Wayfair cancel its contract and establish a code of ethics for business sales.
We won’t stand by while corporations profit from imprisoning children. Will you add your voice to fight the Trump administration’s cruelty to migrants and asylum seekers?
Demand Wayfair stop profiting from prisons for migrant children.
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‘There Is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at a Texas Center
New York Times. 21 June 2019.
New York Times. 21 June 2019.