How You Can Help Fight Family Separation & Immigrant Children

thewitchofthenorse:

Petitions/Protests:

• Sign the ACLU petition here.
• Sign the The National Domestic Workers Alliance petition here.
• A list of protests being held throughout the U.S.

Donation/Volunteer:

• The Women’s Refugee Commission is working on the

  front lines advocating for the critical rights and protection of refugee women and children.

• The Urban Justice Center’s Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project offers emergency legal aid is working to keep families already in the US together.

• Offer your support to the National Immigrant Justice Center.

• Al Otro Lado is a binational organization that works towards “providing critical assistance to refugees, including infants and unaccompanied minors.”

• Pueblo Sin Fronteras is an organization that provides humanitarian aid to migrants and refugees.

• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center is another Texas based non-profit dedicated to providing low cost legal assistance to immigrants.
• Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights fights for advocacy for the best interests of the children. 
• Kids in Need of Defense works to ensure that kids do not appear in immigration court without legal representation.
• The Legal Aid Justice Center is a Virginia-based center providing unaccompanied minors legal services and representation.

• The Texas Civil Rights Project is looking for

  “volunteers who speak Spanish, Mam, Q’eqchi’ or K’iche’ and have paralegal or legal assistant experience.”

  You can also donate to them. However, they are a multi-issue project and its hard to say if your donation will go directly to the issue of parents and children being separated.

• The Florence Project and Refugee Rights Project provides legal assistance and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona.

• RAICES(

  The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families.

• The Detained Migrant Solidarity Committee is another El Paso based program building the  Fronterizo Fianza Fund, a community bond fund used to help immigrants with the process of coming up with the bond amount and in going through the bond process. It does not have a 501( c ) (3) status at the time and is a grassroots organization if you wanna support that! You can donate or join them. They visit detained immigrants, document abuses, translate documents, and organize demonstrations 

Contact Your Legislator:

• For individuals in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, this website has a list of your representatives you can call to demand they take action. 
• This is a list of all U.S. representatives across the U.S.
• The ACLU also has a page that will connect you to a legislator and will even give you a script if you’re comfortable calling.

Report The U.S. to the UNHRC for misconduct against immigrants after Trump voluntarily withdrew the U.S. from the Human Right’s Council. Our country deserves to be investigated.

Thank you @whichwitchami for helping!