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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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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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Children walking out of a BCFS HHS center in Harlingen, Texas. There are dorms and a gymnasium where the children are coming in and out of
Mom, Anita, arrives with her attorney, Jodi Goodwin, to see if she she can be reunited with his 6yo son, Jenri. Anita was just released from detention last night
Anita and Jodi head inside the HHS facility to hopefully be reunited with her son. Anita says she won’t leave the location until she gets her son back - even if she has to sleep outside the fence.
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**I am going to share a REALLY long thread** Pasting from the original posting on FB. It’s a powerful, firsthand acct from an attorney who was helping with the asylum and immigrant crisis happening at the southern border. Bear with me, here. Also, plz RT. 💙Emily
1) **Feel free to share this. My friend, Kim Jennings Martin, has a close attorney friend who just got done volunteering at the border detention facilities with the crisis that immigrants and asylum seekers are facing...because of this racist and hateful administration’s...
2) ...new policies of treatment, enacted by Sessions in April. It is a firsthand account and is credible. *It is also VERY disturbing, so read with that in mind.* Lastly, keep in mind that this isn’t about a Republican or Democrat thing in general (IMO); this is about stopping...
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1/ This is Heyli. She is a six-year-old migrant. In a video call with her mother on Friday, she was sobbing uncontrollably — rubbing her eyes and rocking back and forth.

She’s waiting to be reunited with her father. bit.ly/2LjJQSH
2/ Heyli is in an Arizona shelter, waiting to be reunited with her father, Carlos, who is in a detention center in South Texas. bit.ly/2LjJQSH
3/ Her dad is at the Port Isabel detention center, where some migrant parents are being held in limbo as they wait to be reunited with their children. They’re not free to leave the facility, but they lack access to phones or commissary accounts. bit.ly/2LjJQSH
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ICE works to prevent journalists from visiting detained immigrants.They withhold information about required forms until it is too late to set up visits, withhold information about rules for visiting facilities, and present elaborate, shifting requirements in hope press gives up
an example of how ICE withholds information to keep press out of their facilities: I obtained permission to visit the immigration court at Port Isabel detention center. My friend and me drive up for hearings at 830
The guard (a contractor from Ahtna) tells my friend she is not on the list to drive into the center. I offer to get out and walk to the court. The guard tells me walking is forbidden
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Update from Port Isabel Detention Center - THREAD.
I’m struggling with this update as emotions are overwhelming. To see familiar faces smile at seeing me — but to know I don’t bring answers or hope. To hear more stories of horror and despair. Read more... #FamiliesBelongTogether
To many detainees, having someone to care about them means the world. Especially as they’ve lost all they have, including their children. Some, upon learning children are in foster care, fear they’ve lost their children forever. Others still wait to hear their child’s voice.
Others face the dismal process of routine findings of “No credible fear” despite having strong cases and supporting evidence. Oh - and they didn’t have their volunteer lawyers present at the interview.
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UPDATE: Lawyers for Good Government

♦️Project Corazon♦️

WE HAVE LAWYERS ON THE GROUND IN TEXAS!!!!

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I am honored to share with you some of the impressions of Veronica Walther-lawyer, volunteer, hero-as she spends her 4th of July not with her friends and family, but with immigrants detained at the Karnes facility in Texas.
It’s after midnight, I just finished typing up my case notes, and I swear it’s been at least 2 days since last night’s log. No? Just one day? Okay. Time is weird when you’re in a temperature-controlled windowless room all day.
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#Today's story to #EndFamilySeparation Four months ago, Dad and 4-month-old entered at the Texas/Mexico border and requested #asylum. Dad and child were immediately separated and the baby put in ORR custody. #FamiliesBelongTogether
Dad was detained in a #Texas detention center where @RAICESTEXAS consulted. Dad accepted a deportation to be quickly reunited w/ his infant child. However, the Dad was deported & NOT his child. The now 8-month-old baby has been in ORR custody for 4 months. #EndFamilySeparation
The Mom and Dad now have once weekly Skype calls with their 8-month-old baby. That's right, folks. They Skype with an infant. #EndFamilySeparation #FamiliesBelongTogether
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