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This is one of the thai restaurants in my hometown and i can tell you first hand this lady is wonderful
little update bc someone from my hometown wrote an article about her and these are some highlights:
and my personal favorite:
Someone put “Fuck you, Trump, I make this country!” on a shirt.
“I don’t know how they expect parents to pull their children from hospital beds, disconnect them from lifesaving treatments and go some place where they know they are going to die. But that is what they are telling them to do.”
- Anthony Marino, director of immigration legal services
Arrested for what! WTF! Are you kidding me? He’s not doing anything wrong! Sickening!
Here’s an article about him - it’s from early July 2019.
He wasn’t arrested just for walking around with a sign, though, he and a friend planned a sit-in in which they blocked the doors of a federal building housing an ICE courtroom to protest the imprisonment, neglect and abuse of migrant children separated from their parents. Getting arrested was part of the point - they were held for about an hour and a half and issued citations for a fine. He said he would not pay the fine and was seeking a court date to get further public attention for the issue. He’s deliberately using his privilege as an older white man to protest for people who have less power and are at more risk.
Go Alan Dornan!
fairfightbondfund.org/ lgbtqfund.org/ communitybondproject.org immigrantfamilies.org freedomforimmigrants.org
If you’re in a financial place to make donations, check out these links. If not, spreading the word on any tangible way to make a difference will help; if you have a twitter, you could retweet the original thread here: twitter.com/sarahmirk/status/1143201552657575937
I don’t usually make these posts myself, but my influence on Twitter is practically nil, so here I am.
yooo boost this
[ID: initial tweet from Ken Dilanian, verified, @ KenDilanianNBC. It says “A Dallas-born citizen picked up by the Border Patrol has been detained for three weeks (link to Dallasnews.com link that is cut off)”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, verified, @ AOC retweets this and adds “CBP is detaining *American citizens.*
How would you feel trapped in a border camp, where guards wear face masks because the human odor is so strong?” End ID]
This morning, I noticed that the transcedently wonderful @attackfish decided to offer to write 100 words of AtLA fic for every $1 donated to one of two organizations providing legal and humanitarian aid to detained migrants and asylum seekers at the US southern border. This seemed to me to be an amazing idea, and, with their permission, I’ve decided to expand this project.
For right now, I need y'all to do the following:
Again, writers sign up here! Artists sign up here! Suggestions for organizations to donate to go here! I’ve got 95,000 followers on this blog! Between the lot of us, I’m pretty sure we can do some damn good! Who’s with me?
A Salvadoran trans woman died in ICE custody on June 1, the first day of Pride Month.
Johana Medina was a migrant from El Salvador. She was seeking asylum in the U.S.
Known to her friends as Joa, Johana passed away Saturday night from complications due to HIV/AIDS. Her death was announced on the Diversidad Sin Fronteras Facebook page on Sunday.
In a statement, Casa Migrante trans leader Grecia, who was close with Johana, said that ICE agents ignored Johana’s pleas for help as her illness became worse while in custody.
remember how people on this site were like "dont tell people to tell cops they need a warrant bc its useless"? ICE were successfully turned away from several residences during the recent raid in New York because the residents demanded to see a warrant first. don't get so ideologically woke that you endanger the people you're trying to protect
I work for a non-profit that provides housing to a specific vulnerable population. Last fall, ICE agents had to leave one of our properties without entering because staff demanded they provide a judge-issued warrant. It really does work and it really does help.
American Gateways provides legal services and representation to detained parents. It’s seeking volunteers to represent low-income individuals and families.
Annunciation House shelters families detained and separated by ICE on the El Paso/Juarez border.
Baker Ripley’s team of immigration attorneys is providing free or low-cost legal services throughout the Houston immigrant community.
Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services says it’s the only full-service immigration legal aid clinic serving low-income immigrants and refugees in the southwestern U.S.
Immigrant Families Together works to bond out asylum seekers and reunite them with their children. It also provides food to families and government and foster-agency-approved housing to expedite reunifications. The group is accepting donations.
Immigrant Justice Now is working to provide supplies, like bus tickets, Pedialyte, shoes, prepaid cellphones and underwear, to immigrant families and children.
Justice for Our Neighbors provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant individuals and families in Texas.
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.
La Posada Providencia in San Benito runs a shelter for people in the legal process of seeking asylum, residency or some other legal alternatives.
The El Paso-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center provides legal representation to asylum seekers. It’s accepting donations.
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.
South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project is looking for volunteers and attorneys (even ones not experienced in immigration law) to provide legal services to asylum seekers detained in South Texas.
Texas Civil Rights Project is looking for bilingual attorneys who can help represent detained and separated parents during their immigration proceedings.
The Children’s Immigration Law Academy has pro bono attorneys representing children in immigration-related proceedings. It’s also providing specialized training to legal service providers and volunteers who are serving unaccompanied immigrant children.
The Human Rights Initiative of North Texas provides free legal services to immigrants who are seeking asylum in the U.S. and immigrants who are victims of violence.
The Migrant Center for Human Rights is providing free and low-cost legal services for detained asylum seekers in Texas.
The Thanks-Giving Foundation is taking volunteers and donations to help with the Oak Lawn Methodist Church Respite Center. The center is where some of the overflow asylum seekers are being sent from El Paso while en route to their families and sponsors in the U.S.
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights is accepting donations that will go toward providing more child advocates for immigrant kids inside the detention centers weekly and accompany them to immigration proceedings.
Together Rising is collecting money that’ll go toward defenders, prosecutors and advocates who are working to reunify immigrant children with their families.
if links are broken, pls click on article to find this list. If you can’t donate, call your reps and local officials, especially mayors, county executives, and sheriffs to not participate or assist ICE in their raids, and to not allow your local county jails to be used a migrant detention centers through the 287g program.
IF YOU KNOW ANY OTHER CHECK POINTS PLS REBLOG WITH THE INFO
“The arrest on Sunday afternoon happened at the end of the protest outside of the Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility, organized by a new Jewish group called Never Again Action. Hundreds of Jews, mostly young people, attended the protest. Many of Never Again Action’s leaders are also involved with IfNotNow, a millennial Jewish group that opposes Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.”
Additionally, if you can see if you can donate money to these organizations
