New York, NY – The Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) condemns the recent executive order that maintains the cruel “zero tolerance” policy of criminally prosecuting all adults who cross the border. This executive order simply opens the door to replacing family separation with family detention. Indefinitely imprisoning children alongside their parents is not the answer. It also lacks a policy for reuniting the thousands of families that have already been separated. JCPA strongly urges the Administration to end this cruel practice and ensure that all separated children are reunited with their parents as soon as possible.

“The only solution to this manufactured crisis is to rescind the inhuman “zero tolerance” policy. Instead, the Administration is actually looking to overturn existing protections against indefinite detention of children so that authorities can jail whole families and expedite deportations, even for asylum seekers, which raises serious due process concerns,” said David Bernstein, President and CEO of JCPA. “There are proven alternatives to the incarceration of families fleeing violence that don’t permanently traumatize young children or make people suffer unnecessarily.”

Share

Next Up:

26 Jewish Groups Urge Administration to End Family Separation Policy

Take Action Donate

June 2, 2025

JCPA CEO Amy Spitalnick on MSNBC: The Antisemitic Attack in Boulder, CO Did Not Occur in a Vacuum

June 19, 2025

JCPA Summit 2025

June 14, 2025

JCPA Statement on Political Violence Targeting MN Elected Officials

June 13, 2025

Protected: JCPA Summit 2025 | Resources

June 10, 2025

Identity/Crisis Podcast: Hate Crimes in the Name of Resistance – with Amy Spitalnick

June 5, 2025

JTA: Trump’s new travel ban will block ‘those in need of real refuge,’ American Jewish Committee says

June 5, 2025

Civil Rights Coalition Joint Statement on Antisemitic Hate Crimes

June 5, 2025

New Travel Ban is Dangerous, Wrong, and Will Not Make American Jews Safer

June 4, 2025

USA Today: President Trump bans travel from 12 nations, partially restricts entry from seven others

June 3, 2025

ABC News: Colorado attack comes amid record incidents of antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes

June 3, 2025

NYT: Denouncing Antisemitism, Trump Also Fans Its Flames