thisfinecrew | Family separation

Content note: several of the links contain reference to suicides, self-harm, and (obviously) abusive treatment of children. Please look after your own mental health.

RAICES Family Reunification Bond Fund

catchaspark: There are other ways you can help immigrants in the United States at risk of deportation but here are some for specific skillsets (via

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Medium: Celeste P: How to help families being separated under the new zero tolerance policy (via

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Refinery29: Andrea González-Ramírez: How To Help Migrant Parents & Children Who Are Separated At The Border

The New York Times: Seizing Children From Parents at the Border Is Immoral. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

slpng_giants is collecting info on private companies involved so they can be targeted:

This is a concentration camp for children. Who is the tent manufacturer willing to profit from this? Who is the bed manufacturer? Who is the company willing to handle the data? Who is the food supplier? Who are the other companies willing to detain children for cash?

Reports on what's going on:

The Guardian: Separation at the border: children wait in cages at south Texas warehouse

Inside an old warehouse in south Texas, hundreds of children wait away from their parents in a series of cages created by metal fencing.

One cage had 20 children inside. Scattered about are bottles of water, bags of chips and large foil sheets intended to serve as blankets.

One teenager told an advocate who visited she was helping care for a young child she didn’t know because the child’s aunt was somewhere else in the facility. She said she had to show others in her cell how to change the girl’s diaper.

erlcuman (citing an LA Times article I can't read because they've decided to make their website unavailable in European countries atm): An employee at one of the shelters for migrant children says they’re not equipped to handle things: kids are running away, throwing furniture, and attempting suicide. He quit in disgust.

The Guardian: 'It's on us all': Democrats press on border separations as White House digs in