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Gothmog

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40. Here's a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their f
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 01:52 PM
Jun 2018

Here’s 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

We’ve 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. It’s 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 don’t 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. It’s 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 Children’s 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 Children’s 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.
AMEN!! uponit7771 Jun 2018 #1
pro bono? Baitball Blogger Jun 2018 #2
Yes Gothmog Jun 2018 #4
. Baitball Blogger Jun 2018 #8
Is there any way citizens can help? TryLogic Jun 2018 #16
you can get an "immigrants are us" or "we are all immigrants" shirt and wear it EndGOPPropaganda Jun 2018 #17
I think you meant to ask the question from the other poster. Baitball Blogger Jun 2018 #18
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
I LOVE YOU AND YOUR SON, GOTHMOG Leghorn21 Jun 2018 #3
My son is not going on this round Gothmog Jun 2018 #34
I don't care, I still LOVE YOU BOTH!!! Leghorn21 Jun 2018 #36
I will be headed to the Texas Democratic Convention this weekend Gothmog Jun 2018 #37
Great for your son and his firm. drray23 Jun 2018 #5
Here you go: spooky3 Jun 2018 #26
That is wonderful. bdamomma Jun 2018 #6
Be very proud of your son..... chillfactor Jun 2018 #7
You must be proud of him sheshe2 Jun 2018 #9
Thank you ! C_U_L8R Jun 2018 #10
Times like these make me wish I had ended up going to law school. OliverQ Jun 2018 #11
It probably isn't too late. Sophia4 Jun 2018 #23
I graduated with a classmate who was 70 Gothmog Jun 2018 #41
Why not if you can pay the tuition? Sophia4 Jun 2018 #42
Good kid! mcar Jun 2018 #12
Fabulous. I hope you'll keep us updated. RandomAccess Jun 2018 #13
That is wonderful...I heard on MSNBC that repulsive GOP judges who must be impeached when we Demsrule86 Jun 2018 #14
Is there any way citizens can help? TryLogic Jun 2018 #15
I'm proud of them too, Goth! Love Good Lawyers and Cha Jun 2018 #19
Thank them for us, from the bottom of our breaking hearts. SunSeeker Jun 2018 #20
Let me know if anyone in DC is going and needs a lift... JoeOtterbein Jun 2018 #21
This is impressive! A very proud moment, indeed. R B Garr Jun 2018 #22
You should be! I've been extra proud of lawyers ever since they turned up pnwmom Jun 2018 #24
K&R ismnotwasm Jun 2018 #25
There has to be an individual working inside of NoMoreRepugs Jun 2018 #27
It could be like the Abu Ghraib photos - a game changer AdamGG Jun 2018 #29
Rachel showed some video last night Gothmog Jun 2018 #50
K&R murielm99 Jun 2018 #30
To the good fight! K&R denbot Jun 2018 #31
You raised a great kid. raven mad Jun 2018 #32
The firm is sending attorneys who bilingual Gothmog Jun 2018 #33
Awesome! cpamomfromtexas Jun 2018 #38
Good on all of them! BobTheSubgenius Jun 2018 #39
Here's a list of organizations that are mobilizing to help immigrant children separated from their f Gothmog Jun 2018 #40
This makes me smile Gothmog Jun 2018 #43
Hi Gothmog syringis Jun 2018 #44
My son is not bilingual and so did not go on this round Gothmog Jun 2018 #45
This is from an editor of the Houston Chronicle who is a high school classmate of my son Gothmog Jun 2018 #49
Biglaw is sending attorneys to help Gothmog Jun 2018 #46
Here is a list of the major lawfirms who have agreed to send attorneys Gothmog Jun 2018 #47
A great example of civil society mobilizing to put a check on Trump's latest abuses Gothmog Jun 2018 #48
Here is an e-mail that I just received from the President of the Texas state bar association Gothmog Jun 2018 #51
'Mami, Por qu dejas que me lastimen?' - Corp. Lawyers Help Anguished Parents & Children at the Bord Gothmog Jul 2018 #52
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