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6 DEAD CHILDREN IS 6 TOO MANY.
@RAICESTEXAS
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Today we’d like to give you all a little peek into the kind of work we do everyday at RAICES 💚

‼️Reminder: this is all possible thanks to our amazing team of legal professionals & YOU and your support.
In April, our San Antonio Community Immigration Services team held a naturalization clinic in El Cenizo, a small town just outside of Laredo, TX.

Over two days, teams of attorneys and legal assistants held consultations and prepared naturalization applications 📝
We were thrilled to be able to help and operate this clinic in such an underserved region of Texas.

These are the types of things made possible thanks to all of ya’lls support.

Let’s keep fighting together ✊🏽💚
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6 DEAD CHILDREN IS 6 TOO MANY.
@RAICESTEXAS
We attended immigration court in El Paso today.

16 immigrants attended the hearing (one 8 yr old).

15 didn’t have a lawyer.

4 are separated from family members, they were separated by our government.

(crucial because Trump wants you think they no longer separate families).
When you walk into the Federal Court Building in El Paso you see a statue of a woman balancing the scales of justice.

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As we digest the news of the sixth dead child in CBP custody today, what we witnessed in El Paso offers a glimpse into how our immigration system is working for the most vulnerable people.

The system is working as designed.
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5 DEAD CHILDREN IS 5 TOO MANY.
@RAICESTEXAS
.@CBP is responsible for a fifth child’s death while in their custody at the Southern border.

This is the fifth child who’s lost their life in recent months.

FIVE DEAD CHILDREN IS FIVE TOO MANY.
@CBP We’re in El Paso right now where we have met countless families who were dropped at the local bus station.

The children we spoke too are in critical need of medical attention.

The sounds echoing through the bus station are babies with deep, hacking coughs.
One mom we met from Guatemala has a 5 day old baby. We met her sitting on the floor at the bus station.

She arrived here 20 days ago, spent time in a detention center and delivered a baby shortly after being released.

She’s in desperate need of postpartum care.
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5 DEAD CHILDREN IS 5 TOO MANY.
@RAICESTEXAS
The boy is the second child to have died in CBP custody in the past week.

In December, @CBP boasted it had been a decade since a child died while in their custody, since then five children have died.

We demanded an investigation into CBP's mistreatment of migrant children NOW.
We’re in El Paso today & are horrified at the stories we’ve heard:

A Guatemalan mother & her 5 day old baby. Mom was sent out of hospital hours after giving birth. Needs after-birth care.

A Guatemalan father. His two year old child has eye infection. He hasn’t stopped crying.
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