The Trump-exacerbated crisis at the southern border continues to escalate. Women, children, and families seeking asylum are being met with appalling living conditions, family separation, closed borders, and tear gas.
No one deserves the physical and psychological abuse being meted out at our border. Each group listed below works to protect children, women, and families. Please help them continue their work by chipping in today.
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Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project - prevents wrongful deportations by connecting refugee families to community support and emergency legal aid.
Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) - protecting unaccompanied children who enter the US immigration system alone to ensure that no child appears in court without an attorney.
La Union del Pueblo Entero - founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, a community union that works in the Rio Grande Valley from the grassroots up
Texas Civil Rights Project - lawyers and advocates on the front lines of the family separation crisis
https://texascivilrightsproject.org/
We Belong Together - mobilizes women in support of common sense immigration policies that will keep families together and empower women.
https://www.webelongtogether.org/
Women's Refugee Commission - advocating for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution