Last month, the Trump administration announced plans to dismantle protections for immigrant children in government custody, opening the door to the indefinite detention of thousands of children and their families.

Nearly 13,000 children are already being held in immigration custody, including isolated prison camps and “tent cities”—the highest level of child and family detention since the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. This is a crisis that will continue to grow if Trump gets his way. That’s why we need you to step up and say NEVER AGAIN IS RIGHT NOW.

Since 1997, the Flores settlement has provided some protections by requiring the federal government to release unaccompanied minors to relatives or family friends and to keep children already in custody in the “least restrictive conditions” possible.  In 2015, a judge confirmed that this settlement applied to all migrant children, even those who arrived in the U.S. with their parents, and ordered the government to release families from detention within 20 days. This new proposal would dismantle the protections of the Flores settlement, allowing ICE to hold children and families indefinitely in “self-certified” facilities without the supervision of licensed childcare professionals.

Trump claims that holding children for months or even years in prison camps with zero outside oversight shows “dignity, respect, and special concern for their particular vulnerability as minors.” We’re not buying it. There is no “dignity” in incarcerating vulnerable, traumatized children.

From Japanese American incarceration to today’s denaturalization taskforce, ICE raids and mass deportations, these attempts to criminalize immigrants and people of color resonate strongly within our communities. We know the intergenerational trauma of government raids, loved ones taken away to undisclosed locations without due process, forced removal, the separation of families, and imprisonment of children in state-run concentration camps.

Already, too many children will suffer lifelong trauma as a result of long-term imprisonment in facilities with well-documented abusive conditions. To knowingly place migrant children in these facilities, while simultaneously removing existing mechanisms for court monitoring and independent oversight, is a deliberate violation of their human rights—and a deep and profound wrong.

The Department of Homeland Security is taking comments from the public until November 7th. They need to hear from millions of Americans that incarcerating children, with or without their parents, is inhumane and unacceptable.

We’ll need your name and address—which we’ll only share with DHS because it requires that information for public comments.

Co-sponsors of this petition include 18MillionRising.org, Densho, New York Day of Remembrance Committee, Nikkei Resisters, and the Japanese American Action Network.