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This is Sister Norma Pimentel. She runs the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen, Texas for immigrants #immigration #WhereAreTheChidren
.@SisterNormaCCRG helps immigrants arriving from @ICEgov detention centers and @CBP processing centers #immigration
Families walk over to Sister Norma’s shelter from the nearby bus station (3 blocks) where @ICEgov drops them off with their documents and belongings - we do not know why some families are released and why others remain detained - Norma calls them “the lucky ones”
.@ICEgov gives each family an envelope with their paperwork including “Order of Release” forms
The shelter attaches these papers to each of their envelopes so immigrants can show to ppl if they need help - many stay at the shelter for a day or 2 until their families can send them $ for bus tickets @NBCNews @NBCLatino
On the other side of the envelopes the shelter writes the exact details of the buses families need to take so once they leave the shelter they’ll know exactly where to go and how to get there #immigration
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Families are still separated. This is Raquel. Her two sons are among the 565 kids STILL separated from their families. Deadlines have come and gone for the #Trump Admin. + kids remain in gov. custody. Raquel is afraid her family will be forgotten. @NBCLatino @NBCNightlyNews
This is Raquel’s 9yo son - being held at a gov. facility in Houston. He has autism and doesn’t understand why he can’t go home with his Mom.
Raquel’s eldest son, 13yo, is being held in a separate facility in San Antonio. She tried to get to both facilities as often as she can to visit her sons.
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This is Marklen. He is 13yo and has been stuck inside a facility for kids in HHS custody for almost 3 months. Deemed one of the nearly 700 kids as ‘ineligible’ 4 reunification, he asks his family on the phone “when can I leave?” - his story: nbcnews.to/2n09Vrm
This is Marklen’s Mom, Rafaela. In her native Mayan language from her home in Guatemala, she begs the U.S. gov to release her son who has been held in HHS custody for almost 3 months. @NBCLatino
Marklen’s Mom is sick and didn’t have enough $ to go with him to the U.S. but her older son Tomas lives in Brooklyn and she hoped Marklen could stay with him. But the gov. says he is ‘ineligible’ for family reunification and won’t release him to Tomas.
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Today is the deadline to reunify families. This is a portion of a mother’s credible fear interview @ Port Isabel detention center - she can barely speak she is so distraught about being separated from her daughter - read our full report @NBCNews #FamiliesBelongTogether
She tells Judge Robert Powell she fears returning to her country of Honduras. According to @SyracuseU @TRACReports Judge Powell denies nearly 80 percent of asylum requests - our full report nbcnews.to/2A926ZW @NBCNews
The judge says she will be removed from the U.S. and should speak to her deportation officer about “the possibility of reuniting with her daughter” - both devastating and confusing moments over 400 parents have faced ahead of being deported w/our their children @NBCLatino
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For months, I have been reporting on separated immigrant families and looking into kids who remain separated. Last month, I learned about a father who was separated from his 6-year-old daughter and then deported back to Honduras without her. They remain separated to this day.
Misael Ponce Herrera and his 6-year-old daughter, Marianita, left their home in Honduras to try to immigrate to the U.S. Misael says they were fleeing violence and poverty. But after illegally crossing into Texas in June, the two were taken into custody by US officials.
Misael & Marinita were held at an immigration detention center near McAllen, Texas, for about a week. Misael says, one morning, immigration officials came to take Misael to court & said, “When you get back you'll see your daughter." So Marianita hugged & kissed him goodbye.
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1/ Just spent a week working pro bono with CARA at DETENTION center in #Dilley Texas (oddly renamed "residential" center) to prepare the #SUPERWOMEN being held there prepare for their credible fear interviews. They told me ghastly stories of persecution suffered in lawless
2/ countries at the hands of gangs who terrorize and extort them, then beat, rape and threaten to kill them and their children if they dare go to the police or say "enough," AND/OR countries with such weak laws, corrupt police, and/or corrupt government officials that are
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Outside the Border Patrol processing center in McAllen, Texas, where many immigrant children are being taken after they cross border:
Several members of Congress, including US Rep. Brenda Lawrence of metro Detroit, are currently touring the federal processing center in McAllen, Texas, where many immigrant children are taken after they cross the border:
“I want my mommy,” read t-shirts of a group of women from California who traveled to McAllen, Texas, with supplies of clothes and toiletries for immigrant kids separated from parents. They’re outside the Border Patrol center in McAllen, the largest center housing the kids:
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#Texas the TX Republican Party passed this as their platform at their convention last week. It is 58 pages of the craziest sh*t I’ve ever seen & that is saying something on a day like today! #txlege #Retweet #FightBackTexas #Delusional #VoteBlueNoMatterWho texasgop.org/wp-content/upl…
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BORDER CRISIS

Below pls find some resources that have been repeatedly suggested to us for donations, support and action targets. There's more coming but I don't want to hold this up any longer as we're processing hundreds of emails.

Please share additional ones in the comments.
1) Families Belong Together (familiesbelong.org) is a site for protest, organizing and resources that we have recommended repeatedly.
2) The RAICES Family Reunification and Bond Fund is raising money to support families seeking reunification and in need of bond money.

Donate here: actionnetwork.org/fundraising/bo……
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I'm on a plane, so might as well do this. Feeling helpless about the family separations at the border? Guess what, there are many people & organizations who need your help & electeds who need to do more. Things you can do to help parents & kids at the border thread below. 1/
Let's start w/ Texas: One organization that could use your help is @netargv - who are they? Well, they are some of the best story-tellers of the border region, however, they are also kind souls taking donations for families sleeping outside of ports of entry in extreme heat 2/
Here's @netargv's fundraiser to help volunteers who go to Mexico to assist these families outside. My friend @lorellapraeli went down there last week & met a family who had been outside for 17 days. They need Diapers, Underwear, Bras, Baby wipes, etc.
netargv.com/2018/06/06/tak…
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