Official Statement from Mormon Women for Ethical Government on the Separation of Children from Their Families at the Border
May 31, 2018
Under the direction of the White House, the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security are engaged in the unconscionable practice of separating children from their parents at the border in a horrific and misguided effort to discourage immigration. Many of these families are refugees who are fleeing unspeakable horrors in their home countries and are seeking asylum in the United States.
As members of Mormon Women for Ethical Government we join with other individuals and groups from all across the political spectrum to unequivocally denounce this practice as cruel, inhumane, and entirely indefensible. Our democracy is founded on principles of honor, justice, and an absolute respect for the basic, inalienable rights of all people. Taking young children away from loving parents violates every code of ethics and morality known to humankind and cannot in any way be justified. We call for an immediate end to such inhumanity.
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Mormon Women for Ethical Government (MWEG) is a nonpartisan group dedicated to the ideals of decency, honor, accountability, transparency, and justice in governing. MWEG is not affiliated with or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We do, however, fully sustain the leaders and doctrines of the Church.
