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I have been beside myself about the emergence of child concentration camps so I want to give a shout out to all the immigration attorneys doing your respective deity’s work right now

How can the rest of us best support you? I know of RAICES and KIND, and am trying to find the best local legal services groups to donate to

Update, friends–

My law school just emailed alums a bunch of information if we’re interested in helping immigrant families who have been separated at the border.

Here’s the gist.

Opportunities to assist with family separation:

• Immigration Justice Campaign (**for attorneys only** powered by the American Immigration Council and American Immigration Lawyers Association)
• https://actionnetwork.org/forms/we-stand-with-immigrants-their-families-sign-up-to-volunteer
• If you are able to go to Texas: http://caraprobono.org/volunteer/

  Other volunteer opportunities to help immigrants generally:

• Serve as a child advocate for an unaccompanied minor:https://www.theyoungcenter.org/volunteer-at-the-young-center/
• Find local legal and non-legal opportunities: https://www.standwithimmigrants.org

  Donate to organizations that have hosted Pro Bono Caravans and/or In-House Pro Bono Projects and are assisting immigrant families and unaccompanied minors:

• KIND – Kids in Need of Defense https://supportkind.org/ They are supporting kids directly at the border and beyond through legal and social services.  
• Aldea supports families at the Berks family detention center: https://aldeapjc.org/
• RAICES is a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children, families and refugees in Texas. Donate generally or specifically to the RAICES bond fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/bondfund
• Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, Texas: http://las-americas.org/
• Urban Justice Center Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project:https://asylumadvocacy.org/get-involved/

  Other lists/drives/charitable efforts:

• https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html
• https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/
• In NYC: http://www.marklevine.nyc/childrefugees

Let’s all do what we can!

Adding in these pulls from the comments section:

musicalmerlinian   lawlschool-adventures  :Not a lawyer, but.. RAICES and KIND are great! I’d also recommend the Justice for Our Neighbors network: http://njfon.org/donate/

forgetliars: Immigration attorney here. I will shamelessly plug the nonprofit I work for, Americans for Immigrant Justice: www.aijustice.org. I’m actually a part of the children’s team and we represent unaccompanied minors.

And I would also like to add, if you are in one of the states where people are being either detained (or shipped)  and you have language skills, people need you.   South and central American dialects (forgive me for not listing here)  are especially needed.   Some of these people are walking all the way up around 2000 miles to get away from violence, only to experience this.