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A humanitarian aid organization serving immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking people and families for 40 years. 📍Rooted in Texas, with national reach.

May 5, 2020, 7 tweets

🧵THREAD: Giving back isn’t cancelled. On #GivingTuesdayNow, we’re sharing ways you can express generosity & solidarity right from your own home.

Even rooted at home in self-isolation, you can make a difference. It's going to take all of us.

Join Genevieve by matching her commitment in some form this #GivingTuesdayNow, and affirm the power of her spirit, her actions, and her courage #RootedInCommunity.
raicestexas.org/rooted-in-comm…

Use this tool 👇🏾 to email your elected officials and ask them to support the Coronavirus Immigrant Family Protection Act, which would take steps to even the scales for undocumented people, mixed-status families & those without a social security card.
raicestexas.org/2020/04/13/ema…

Tweet your Representatives and demand they take action to provide eBond access for immigrant families to post bond online in the midst of #COVID19

raicestexas.org/2020/04/13/dhs…

Join our call to free detained families & other immigrants in detention, who are at unacceptable levels of risk due to the #COVID19 pandemic. #FreeThemAll

raicestexas.org/2020/04/13/ema…

If you're in Texas:

Help us make a difference by contacting Gov. Abbott & your Texas State Legislator. Urge them to end SB-4 & include the immigrant community in free #COVID19 testing & relief funding!
raicestexas.org/2020/04/13/ema…

And if you want a more in depth rundown of how you can support immigrants in the U.S. during #COVID19...

Be sure to read this piece by @witnessorg's Palika Makam, who offers 8 ideas for how to remain #RootedInCommunity
teenvogue.com/story/how-help…

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