The U.S. is creating an expansive network of unregulated and harmful influx and intake detention sites for children that fall outside of international human rights mandates to protect children and refugees and is recycling harmful policies to separate and detain families.
Tsuru for Solidarity was born out of outrage at federal policies separating children at the border and the ongoing incarceration of immigrant children and families, particularly on sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated over 80 years ago.