As the current administration is pressured and ordered by federal courts to reunite immigrant children forcibly separated from their parents at the border, nonprofits are often left to actually make it happen, often fighting the US government’s own resistance or incompetence.
A Philadelphia-based nonprofit tried to donate new Spanish-language books and handmade bookmarks as a gesture of friendship to children caught in the “zero tolerance” nightmare. Who wins when such kindness is thwarted?
How does a Texas nonprofit want to use the $20 million in donations it has received? Taking a page from the “bail out” movement, RAICES has offered to pay off bonds for parents separated from their children. But the federal government has demurred.
The volunteer-staffed National Families Together Hotline will work to find the parents of detained children, almost as a private investigator would, and then staff will help connect parents to free legal services.
Last week, the White House issued an executive order that ended the policy of separating children detained by customs from their parents. But reuniting the 2,300 children already separated from their parents has been slow going.
How should someone feel about joining a viral fundraising campaign? Slate argues that the RAICES campaign is one we can embrace.
After days of pressure from citizens, lawmakers, and the media, President Trump signed an executive order to stop the separation of children and families at the border. However, it’s not quite time to celebrate.
Enraged and heartbroken citizens across the United States are trying to stop the separation of kids and parents at the US-Mexico border and support the families already detained.
What is called an “immigration crisis” is really a crisis of humanity. Today, on World Refugee Day, we must rededicate ourselves to respond to disruptive events and shift the course of history towards justice and interdependence. This is our learning curve.
Religious language of morality meets recent decisions designed to terrorize immigrant women and children.
