Showing posts with label Families Belong Together. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Families Belong Together. Show all posts
Sunday, September 02, 2018
Scenes From the Border Crisis: Sketches by the Artist Molly Crabapple
Must Watch: Scenes From the Border Crisis: Sketches by the Artist Molly Crabapple – Rolling Stone
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
The Thai Kids are Safe, Now it is Time to Rescue the Children in America
by Gregg Chadwick
My family was pleased this morning to read that the 12 Wild Boars and their soccer coach were rescued from a cave in Thailand. The effort was extraordinary. It took strategy, teamwork, focus, dedication and bravery. Here in the United States we have our own children's crisis. Most of the immigrant children separated at the border from their parents by the Trump administration have not been returned. At a hearing late last week, the government attorney tasked with the case asked the judge for more time because she had to babysit her dog. Shockingly, the judge agreed. Furthermore, a court ordered deadline to return the youngest children will pass with most of the families still hundreds of miles apart. Today, July 10, 2018, is the deadline for the Trump government to reunite 102 separated children under the age of five with their parents. Yesterday in court, the Trump administration said just over 50 children would be reunited by the deadline. Today the figure stands at 38 young children out of 102 returned. We will not stand for this!
UPDATE: In a status conference held on July 10, 2018, the federal court said the Trump administration must adhere to reunification deadlines for children forcibly separated from their parents or face possible punishment. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said:
Why can't the Trump Administration reunite these babies and toddlers with their families?
1. They've already deported the parents of 19 of these little ones
2. They can't find the parents of another 19
3. They can't connect another 16 to their parents
We must stand together as a nation and declare that #FamiliesBelongTogether!
How You Can Help Reunite Immigrant Families Today
1. Go to http://immigrantfamiliestogether.com to help. They’re also on Facebook & @ImmFamTogether on twitter.
2. Donate to @ACLU and learn more: http://aclu.org/mirian #MyNameIsMirian https://youtu.be/x7X1ZbH37P8
From the Immigrant Families Together Website:
“This is moral vandalism. Now is the time we need to see more action, more engagement, more love.” Senator Corey Booker, July 10, 2018 at the U.S. Capitol
My family was pleased this morning to read that the 12 Wild Boars and their soccer coach were rescued from a cave in Thailand. The effort was extraordinary. It took strategy, teamwork, focus, dedication and bravery. Here in the United States we have our own children's crisis. Most of the immigrant children separated at the border from their parents by the Trump administration have not been returned. At a hearing late last week, the government attorney tasked with the case asked the judge for more time because she had to babysit her dog. Shockingly, the judge agreed. Furthermore, a court ordered deadline to return the youngest children will pass with most of the families still hundreds of miles apart. Today, July 10, 2018, is the deadline for the Trump government to reunite 102 separated children under the age of five with their parents. Yesterday in court, the Trump administration said just over 50 children would be reunited by the deadline. Today the figure stands at 38 young children out of 102 returned. We will not stand for this!
UPDATE: In a status conference held on July 10, 2018, the federal court said the Trump administration must adhere to reunification deadlines for children forcibly separated from their parents or face possible punishment. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said:
- The families were improperly separated, and he would not extend deadlines for reunification: “These are firm deadlines. They’re not aspirational goals.”
- DNA tests can only be performed when there is a genuine reason to doubt parentage or parentage cannot be established by any other means; samples must be destroyed after matches are made and cannot be added to a government database.
- The government must take a “streamlined approach” for vetting and reunifying families.
After today's status conference, Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said:
“The court could not have been clearer that business as usual is not acceptable. The Trump administration must get these children and parents reunited.”
The ACLU will be back in court this Friday.
Case details here: https://www.aclu.org/cases/ms-l-v-ice
More information here: https://www.aclu.org/families-belong-together
Why can't the Trump Administration reunite these babies and toddlers with their families?
1. They've already deported the parents of 19 of these little ones
2. They can't find the parents of another 19
3. They can't connect another 16 to their parents
We must stand together as a nation and declare that #FamiliesBelongTogether!
How You Can Help Reunite Immigrant Families Today
1. Go to http://immigrantfamiliestogether.com to help. They’re also on Facebook & @ImmFamTogether on twitter.
2. Donate to @ACLU and learn more: http://aclu.org/mirian #MyNameIsMirian https://youtu.be/x7X1ZbH37P8
From the Immigrant Families Together Website:
Immigrant Families Together is a network of Americans committed to rapid response unification of families separated by the 'zero tolerance' policy. We have mobilized to help parents currently detained through the following immediate actions:
- Raising of bond funds through coordinated crowdfunding and individual giving in order to post bond for parents separated from their children at the US/Mexico Border.
- Paying bonds and providing pro bono legal representation to fulfill all legal responsibilities while awaiting trial so that they may be with their children.
- Arranging safe transportation from state of detention to the city where children are currently in foster care.
- When needed, finding longterm housing in the destination city while they await trial.
- Connecting parents in cities with resources in order to sustain them during the process of being unified with their children.
We are creating a toolkit to allow other concerned citizens to replicate our model in order to help bring parents back to their children across the country as quickly as possible.
- Working with local organizations and government to expedite the process of achieving full custody of their children while they await trial.
“This is moral vandalism. Now is the time we need to see more action, more engagement, more love.” Senator Corey Booker, July 10, 2018 at the U.S. Capitol
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Senator @corybooker with @RAICESTEXAS @JoaquinCastrotx speaks on the way forward #FamiliesBelongTogether |
There are heroes among us. They’re volunteers like @collazoprojects and Meghan Finn at @ImmFamTogether This is a new Underground Railroad. https://t.co/lKp1XTeEQg— Rod Thorn (@rodthorn) July 9, 2018
📣 The Trump administration created this crisis, and it's on them to reunite each and every child with their parents.— ACLU (@ACLU) July 10, 2018
We won't let up the pressure until they do. #FamiliesBelongTogether pic.twitter.com/vM25wHRvYW
Monday, June 18, 2018
Listen to the Children in Trump's Concentration Camps and Then Act!
Published on Jun 18, 2018
- ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”
A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in Mcallen, Texas. John Moore/GETTY IMAGESJUST ANNOUNCED: Major protest to Keep Families Together on June 30th in Washington *and* communities around the country. Go to http://familiesbelongtogether.org to plug into events. All hands on deck NOW to end this brutality and move towards freedom for all: kids AND their families.- How to Fight Back – Pressure Congress
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has introduced The Keep Families Together Act (S.3036) which currently has 49 co-sponsors and is supported by American Academy of Pediatrics, Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), Young Center for Immigrant Rights and the Women’s Refugee Commission. Please call your Senators today and tell them you want them to support this bill.Find their contact info at Contacting Congress or at Call Congress.Also, you can contact ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) directly. Write to them here or call them at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE.TIP: If your Senators or Representative aren’t on board, explain that you will call back regularly for updates on this issue. Then, tell them that this issue is so important to you, that if they do not act to end the separation of children from their parents, that you will actively work to get their opponent elected in November by raising money and speaking to every constituent you can get in front of.
Families Belong Together March- Los Angeles, June 14, 2018
photo by Gregg ChadwickHow to Fight Back –
Please Support These Organizations:The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights The Young Center is a champion for the rights and best interests of unaccompanied immigrant children, making sure that wherever they land, whether here in the U.S. or in their home country, they are safe.
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) Advocates for children’s rights as they migrate alone.
The Florence Project Free legal services to men, women, and unaccompanied children in immigration custody in Arizona
Informed Immigrant Understand your rights. The website is full of helpful information. Search for groups working on these immigration issues located near you here
RAICES Based in Texas, they offer free or low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. They are seeking both donations and volunteers. Donate here and sign up as a volunteer here.
Border Angels This organization advocates for humane immigration reform with a special focus on issues at the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly in San Diego County.
The Texas Civil Rights Project is seeking “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”
The ACLU is litigating this policy in California.
If you’re an immigration lawyer, the American Immigration Lawyers Association will be sending around a volunteer list for you to help represent the women and men with their asylum screening, bond hearings, ongoing asylum representation, etc. Please sign up.
Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works to offer legal services to deportees and migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, including deportee parents whose children remain in the U.S.
CARA — a consortium of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association — provides legal services at family detention centers.
Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers too.
Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without representation, and to lobby for policies that advocate for children’s legal interests. Donate here.
The Legal Aid Justice Center Virginia based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid and shelter to migrants on their way to the U.S.
Together Rising is another Virginia-based organization that’s helping provide legal assistance for 60 migrant children who were separated from their parents and are currently detained in Arizona.
The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project is working to keep families together.
Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.
ActBlue has aggregated many of these groups under a single button.
CLINIC’s Defending Vulnerable Populations project offers case assistance to hundreds of smaller organizations all over the country that do direct services for migrant families and children.
American Immigrant Representation Project (AIRP), which works to secure legal representation for immigrants.
CASA in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvania. They litigate, advocate, and help with representation of minors needing legal services.
Freedom for Immigrants (Formerly CIVIC), which has been a leading voice opposing immigrant detention.
The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center represents all of the immigrant kids placed by the government in foster care in Michigan (one of the biggest foster care placement states). About two-thirds are their current clients are separation cases, and they work to find parents and figure out next steps.
The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project is doing work defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.
The Women’s Refugee Commission has aggregated five actions everyone can take that go beyond donating funds.
International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) — which organizes law students and lawyers to develop and enforce a set of legal and human rights for refugees and displaced persons — just filed suit challenging the cancellation of the Central American Minors program.
Families Belong Together March- Los Angeles, June 14, 2018
photo by Gregg ChadwickHow To Fight Back –
Support Petitions and Calls to ActionThe ACLU is gathering signatures to petition Kevin K. McAleenan, Commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection to stop the government from abusing immigrant children. You can find the petition here.The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has recommended guidelines for human rights at international borders which you can read here. The reported actions our DHS is taking do not comply with these guidelines. You can contact the UN Office for Human Rights here.Amnesty International has been calling for an end to the U.S. policy of separating children at the border. Their call to action can be found at the end of this post here.
Families Belong Together March- Los Angeles, June 14, 2018
photo by Gregg ChadwickHow to Fight Back – Stay Informed
Important Recent Articles on Trump's Immigrant Child Roundup'Toxic stress' and other permanent damage caused by stripping immigrant children from their parents
The Trump administration’s policy of separating families is designed to erase hope—with devastating consequences for thousands of children.Read the full story here: https://propub.li/2tcYE9MHow to Fight Back – Make Sure That You Are Registered to Vote and Vote the Child Snatchers Out!
This is callous. This is inhumane. This is immoral. Separating children from their parents is not an immigration policy. This erodes our nation's heart, our soul and our commitment to civil and human rights.— Anne Frank Center (@AnneFrankCenter) June 18, 2018
These are children, not political pawns. https://t.co/9RTJ6awKM6
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