“Local grassroots organization JP Progressives will be visiting Congressman Stephen Lynch's Boston office on July 25 to specifically ask him to close the immigrant detention camps on the southern border.

‘We are joining with other constituents in the district and hope to actually speak with Representative Lynch,’ said Anne Rousseau, co-chair of the JP Progressives.

‘The conditions at the detention camps are unacceptable and that has to change,’ said Molly Rose Tarpey, Director of Communications for Congressman Lynch, to Jamaica Plain News. ‘He believes that anyone in U.S. custody must be treated humanely and with dignity. In addition, the asylum cases need to be adjudicated expeditiously.’”