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R. Andrew Free
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“Their eyes. I'm haunted by their eyes[.]" - Lawyer on seeing kids inside camps in the RGV #CloseTheCamps

Lawyer: Inside an immigrant detention center in South Texas, "basic hygiene just doesn't exist" texastribune.org/2019/06/23/imm… via @TexasTribune
"State Rep. Terry Canales, a Democrat from Edinburg, wrote to the Border Patrol on Saturday asking for a list of items the public could donate to make up for shortages. Canales said Border Patrol told his office it does not accept donations."
"Unable to clean themselves, young mothers reported wiping their children’s runny noses or vomit with their own clothing, Gialluca said. There aren’t sufficient cups or baby bottles, so many are reused or shared."
"It was so bad that the mothers would save any bottled water they could get and use that to mix the baby formula,” attorney Toby Gialluca told The Texas Tribune on Saturday.
We have the power to end this. We are not voiceless. We are not impotent.

Show up July 12: lightsforliberty.org/localevents

Your voice matter.

Our actions in this moment will define you for generations to come.

#DontLookAway #CloseTheCamps #LightsforLiberty
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R. Andrew Free
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Many of the career agents & lawyers I deal with in my work share these sentiments.

They believe did not sign up for this. Many have got kids and are deeply disturbed by it.

What’s interesting about this to me is they deal directly w/ affected humans & feel conflicted.
A question that kept coming up last week at #AILAAC19 is what we as immigrants’ rights advocates and humans of conscience should do with these folks, in light of the situation and the other humans being locked in cages and dying.
There is no consensus. Many of us noted that there were probably a lot of “good people” who felt compelled or led by inertia into working with oppressive, genocidal regimes. Did the silence of their friends, family, neighbors, and professional colleagues enable others’ suffering?
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R. Andrew Free
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I realize this was last week which means our brains can’t hold it but please ask your Members of Congress: What would it take for them to stop funding this machine?

4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility huffpost.com/entry/four-sev…
And I realize that it’s harder to visualize stuff when people write things instead of videotaping them but consider taking a second and seeing in your mind’s eye the two year-old girl whose eyes rolled into the back of her head in front of these lawyers.
#CloseTheCampsNOW
I know it’s hard, but try sitting for five seconds to feel the feelings of the parents and kids in these cages as they watched the lawyers leave, heard the doors slam shut, and then realized, maybe hours or days later, nobody’s coming to free them.

Imagine the sinking feeling.
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R. Andrew Free
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I’d like to think I’m a reasonably well-informed consumer of news about the #MigrantPersecutionProtocols and #RemainInMexico

The things I’m learning at #AILAAC19 from advocates appearing in these hearings daily and serving people subjected to these policies are next-level evil.
.@ImmDef reports of regular family separations, and attempted family separations.

Imagine being told to leave your 12 year-old alone in Mexico because ICE didn’t file the Notice to Appear in Court for everyone in your family. Or being told your infant can come but you can’t.
.@taylorklevy discusses a 7 year-old in court bleeding from the head after getting attacked in Mexico. Didn’t get access to a nonrefoulement interview.
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Texas Tribune
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1/ People are buying diapers, wipes, soaps and toys to donate to children in overcrowded migrant detention centers.

But they're being turned away. bit.ly/2X29n8J
2/ News reports have been circulating of facilities having drinking water that tastes like bleach and sick children without enough clothing. bit.ly/2X29n8J
3/ An influx of migrants along the southwest border has stretched facilities beyond capacity.

Some lawyers who have visited them are calling them unsafe and unsanitary conditions. bit.ly/2X29n8J
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Texas Tribune
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1/ We spoke to a lawyer about the conditions inside an immigrant detention center in South Texas. Here’s what she told us.

"Basic hygiene just doesn't exist there."

bit.ly/2x8qfLG
2/ Immigrants are living in overcrowded spaces and sometimes are forced to sleep outside a building where the water "tastes like bleach."

"It was so bad that the mothers would save any bottled water they could get and use that to mix the baby formula." bit.ly/2x8qfLG
3/ Unable to clean themselves, young mothers reported wiping their children’s runny noses or vomit with their own clothing, Gialluca said.

There aren’t sufficient cups or baby bottles, so many are reused or shared.

bit.ly/2x8qfLG
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saraeli ४ ‎
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THREAD OF WAYS YOU CAN HELP IMMIGRANT REFUGEES IN THE US!
1: check with your local chapter of sanctuary not deportation to see what you can do sanctuarynotdeportation.org
2: help crowdfund for detainee’s phone bills! this allows them to call their families, get legal counsel, inform people, etc.! crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/…
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Texas Tribune
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1/ A Honduran woman’s pregnancy ended in a stillbirth at an ICE detention center in South Texas last week.

Officials said DHS doesn’t count stillbirths as in-custody deaths — which drew condemnation from many. wapo.st/2EA4adH via @washingtonpost
2/ The woman, a migrant from Honduras, was arrested near Hidalgo on Feb. 18.

She was six months pregnant at the time.

Four days later, she went into labor and delivered a premature and unresponsive baby boy. wapo.st/2EA4adH
3/3 The stillbirth follows the February death of a 45-year-old Mexican national in McAllen and the December deaths of two detained migrant children, which led the CBP chief to commit to conducting health checks on all minors in the agency’s custody. wapo.st/2EA4adH
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Daniel Medina
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~THREAD~
Over the last 10 months, I have obsessively tracked down and spoken to 25+ foreign-born adoptees who were brought as children to the US by American citizens but who remain without citizenship, in some cases well into their 40s and 50s. There are more than 40,000 of them.
And that number could grow to 64,000 by 2033. These individuals are a forgotten group to the millions of Americans. They were left out of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 - due to GOP concerns - which provided automatic citizenship to adoptees under 18 years of age at the time.
Some of these adoptees no longer reside in the United States, unable to return because of their legal status. Others live with the constant fear of deportation. The majority live as permanent residents, a status within American immigration law that can be rescinded.
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Texas Tribune
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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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