Action: Lights For Liberty events, July 12 (and other suggestions)

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For all those asking about something concrete to do to help the kids in the concentration camps, www.lightsforliberty.org/ is organizing vigils around the country to protest the camps and their inhumanity.

And if you need something to do in the meantime, this article suggests that one of the fastest ways to help people in these camps is to donate to help them post bail, and provides a fairly comprehensive list of links for donating to organizations that are doing that (RAICES has already been mentioned here, but there were others I'd never heard of.)

(Also, for those low on phonecall energy, Resistbot will send letters for you, and 5calls.org/ is a good place for scripts--- you can copypasta from 5calls right into Resistbot's "letter sending" function. I know both of these have been shared before here, but it's been a while and I figure it won't hurt to mention them again.)

More Organizations to Support Helping Kids in Concentration Camps

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From the Texas Tribune found via tumblr

 

• American Gateways provides legal services and representation to detained parents. It's seeking volunteers to represent low-income individuals and families.

• Angry Tias & Abuelas delivers financial support to local shelters; transportation to and from bus stations, airports and shelters; and emergency food, water, clothing and toiletries to individuals and families seeking asylum. They are accepting donations.

• 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.

• The Humanitarian Respite Center for Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley provides a place for men, women and children to rest, have a warm meal, shower, change into clean clothes, as well as receive medicine and other supplies.

• 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.

• Interfaith Welcome Coalition assists refugees, asylum seekers and at-risk immigrants. They have an overnight shelter at Travis Park Methodist Church and help migrants get transportation — buses or planes — as they travel to other places through San Antonio.

• 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.

• Texas RioGrande Legal Aid provides legal advice and prepares detainees for credible fear interviews at the Dilley detention center. They recently expanded to another detention center in the Houston-area.

• 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 Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition supports refugees by providing them with access to phones, restrooms, showers, laundry and warm meals.

• 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.

A wise man, singing truth to power

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Willie Nelson, "Immigrant Eyes"

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