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In reply to the discussion: My son's law firm is sending attorneys to Brownsville [View all]Gothmog
(145,130 posts)40. Here's a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their f
Heres a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their families
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=5562387051
Weve compiled a list of organizations that are mobilizing to try and help children that have been separated from their parents at the Texas-Mexico border:
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project works to prevent the deportation of asylum-seeking families fleeing violence. The group accepts donations and asks people to sign up for volunteer opportunities here.
South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project is providing free legal services to asylum seekers detained in South Texas.
RAICES is a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families and refugees in Texas. Its accepting donations and volunteers at its website. In addition, the
#postcards4families campaign will donate $5 to RAICES for every postcard kids write to help the separated immigrant children.
The CARA Project is currently recruiting attorneys, law students and paralegals with experience in asylum work. The group asks volunteers to be fluent in Spanish or willing to work with an interpreter.
Kids In Need of Defense partners with major law firms, corporations and bar associations to create a nationwide pro bono network to represent unaccompanied children through their immigration proceedings. Volunteers dont need to have immigration law experience.
The El Paso-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center provides legal representation to immigrants who might not be able to afford it otherwise. Its accepting volunteers and donations.
The Austin Bar Association Civil Right and Immigration Section is coordinating training for pro bono attorneys to handle credible fear interviews for asylum seekers.
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley shelters immigrants who've recently been released from U.S. Border Patrol custody.
American Gateways provides legal services and representation to separated parents. It's currently seeking volunteers to represent detained parents who've been separated from their children.
Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services is the largest provider of free and low cost immigration services in West Texas and says it's the only organization in El Paso serving unaccompanied children.
Justice for Our Neighbors provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant individuals and families in Texas.
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights is looking for more child advocates to visit the immigrant kids inside the detention centers weekly and accompany them to immigration proceedings. It is also raising money for advocates who will deal specifically with family separation cases.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is raising money to provide immigrant children "immediate shelter and beds, medical services, counseling and therapy to help them deal with the trauma of family separation."
Together Rising is collecting money that'll go to advocacy groups that are working to reunify immigrant children with their families.
Comfort Cases is raising money to provide backpacks to the separated immigrant children. Each case will contain items such as blankets, pajamas, toiletries, a stuffed animal, a book, a journal and art supplies.
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights is training adults who want to become child advocates who will work one-on-one with unaccompanied immigrant children while they are subject to deportation proceedings.
Tahirih Justice Center is providing free legal and social services to immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project works to prevent the deportation of asylum-seeking families fleeing violence. The group accepts donations and asks people to sign up for volunteer opportunities here.
South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project is providing free legal services to asylum seekers detained in South Texas.
RAICES is a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families and refugees in Texas. Its accepting donations and volunteers at its website. In addition, the
#postcards4families campaign will donate $5 to RAICES for every postcard kids write to help the separated immigrant children.
The CARA Project is currently recruiting attorneys, law students and paralegals with experience in asylum work. The group asks volunteers to be fluent in Spanish or willing to work with an interpreter.
Kids In Need of Defense partners with major law firms, corporations and bar associations to create a nationwide pro bono network to represent unaccompanied children through their immigration proceedings. Volunteers dont need to have immigration law experience.
The El Paso-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center provides legal representation to immigrants who might not be able to afford it otherwise. Its accepting volunteers and donations.
The Austin Bar Association Civil Right and Immigration Section is coordinating training for pro bono attorneys to handle credible fear interviews for asylum seekers.
Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley shelters immigrants who've recently been released from U.S. Border Patrol custody.
American Gateways provides legal services and representation to separated parents. It's currently seeking volunteers to represent detained parents who've been separated from their children.
Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services is the largest provider of free and low cost immigration services in West Texas and says it's the only organization in El Paso serving unaccompanied children.
Justice for Our Neighbors provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant individuals and families in Texas.
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights is looking for more child advocates to visit the immigrant kids inside the detention centers weekly and accompany them to immigration proceedings. It is also raising money for advocates who will deal specifically with family separation cases.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service is raising money to provide immigrant children "immediate shelter and beds, medical services, counseling and therapy to help them deal with the trauma of family separation."
Together Rising is collecting money that'll go to advocacy groups that are working to reunify immigrant children with their families.
Comfort Cases is raising money to provide backpacks to the separated immigrant children. Each case will contain items such as blankets, pajamas, toiletries, a stuffed animal, a book, a journal and art supplies.
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights is training adults who want to become child advocates who will work one-on-one with unaccompanied immigrant children while they are subject to deportation proceedings.
Tahirih Justice Center is providing free legal and social services to immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence.
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you can get an "immigrants are us" or "we are all immigrants" shirt and wear it
EndGOPPropaganda
Jun 2018
#17
There was a post yesterday about donating to a collection of groups via ActBlue:
NBachers
Jun 2018
#28
I also donated to Act Blue for the groups to support keeping refugee families together.
iluvtennis
Jun 2018
#35
That is wonderful...I heard on MSNBC that repulsive GOP judges who must be impeached when we
Demsrule86
Jun 2018
#14
Here's a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their f
Gothmog
Jun 2018
#40
This is from an editor of the Houston Chronicle who is a high school classmate of my son
Gothmog
Jun 2018
#49
A great example of civil society mobilizing to put a check on Trump's latest abuses
Gothmog
Jun 2018
#48