Here's How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border

[mucifer]

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If you’re horrified by news of families being separated at the borders, here’s a bit of news you can use.

First, the policy: It helps to be incredibly clear on what the law is, and what has and has not changed. When Donald Trump and Sarah Huckabee Sanders say that the policy of separating children from their parents upon entry is a law passed by Democrats that Democrats will not fix, they are lying.

There are two different policies in play, and both are new.

First is the new policy that any migrant family entering the U.S. without a border inspection will be prosecuted for this minor misdemeanor. The parents get incarcerated and that leaves children to be warehoused. The parents then typically plead guilty to the misdemeanor and are given a sentence of the few days they served waiting for trial. But then when the parents try to reunite with their children, they are given the runaround—and possibly even deported, alone. The children are left in HHS custody, often without family...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html

Also at the article on the link there is a long list of organizations to support and more information on policies.

[zentrum]

1. K&R for the information.

[Cha]

2. Thanks, mucifer!

[flibbitygiblets]

3. K&R -- I will do anything I can to stop the inhumanity that is happening.

[sheshe2]

4. Thank you mucifer.

[beveeheart]

5. Thanks for the info.

[AlexSFCA]

6. are the children warehoused indefinately? or deported?

how can they reunite with parents??

[lamp_shade]

7. 9 organizations fighting trump's policies were added this morning. Total 27 so far.

I'm impressed and feeling kind of encouraged.

[mucifer]

8. I don't usually kick my own thread. But, I didn't see it reposted and there is very important info

in this article.

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. Thank you - mucifer.....eom

[tavernier]

10. Happy to kick you...

In a nice way, of course!

[ebdarcy]

11. Thanks for posting this.

[mnhtnbb]

12. I have started a separate thread highlighting that ActBlue has created a single button

opportunity to donate to eight of these organizations. The info was buried in this article.

Here is the link to donate to Act Blue https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kidsattheborder

And here is the separate thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210744898