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21 Jun

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This weekend, for the first time in over three years, our client Luis was able to hold his son in his arms again. His son was only five years old when @CBP officers callously took him while Luis was in court. He was told his son would be there when he got back. He wasn’t.
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But Luis’ story isn’t the only happy one we have to share. He’s 1 of 13 parents that were reunited with their kids over the weekend + 8 more will be reunited this week! These were parents who were separated + deported from their children during the terror of #zerotolerance.

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For two years we have been fighting to reunite these parents with their children, some of whom have been separated nearly four years. But the journey is not over. It will take years to undo the damage that has been done to these families. Reunification is just the first step.
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16 Jun

¡HUGE! news coming out of the immigration sphere today! AG Garland just overturned two devastating decisions made by ghouls, ahem, former AGs Sessions and Barr, that sought to restrict asylum even further by limiting the qualifications for protection.

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The first decision, Matter of A-B, all but precluded domestic violence as a reason to seek asylum. The second decision, Matter of L-E-A, seriously limited asylum for people who were being persecuted because of their family associations.

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So what does this mean exactly? It means that people fleeing domestic violence and persecuted families will now have the chance to seek protection under U.S. asylum law! This is going to make the difference between life or death for so many people fleeing danger.

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25 Feb

Incredible news to share!
One of our clients who was expelled to Mexico under Title 42 with her U.S. citizen baby has been paroled into the U.S.!
CBP made her believe she was being released to her brother, instead they dropped her off in Mexico with a newborn baby.

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She is Haitian and barely speaks Spanish so she didn’t know how to ask for help. The first few nights she and her infant slept on the streets.

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We had been working with her to get her baby’s birth certificate, find safe housing, food, clothing and now humanitarian parole! Today she is safe with her baby in the U.S. and will soon be joining her brother and partner.

She’s been through so much. We’re so happy for her!

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22 Feb

Our humanitarian work isn’t just about serving the needs of our clients, it’s about taking a holistic approach by working in tandem w other on the ground orgs in Tijuana to make sure they have what they need to address the most urgent needs of migrants affected by this pandemic.

@PrevencasaAc

Today, we were able to provide a water filtration system for @PrevencasaAc, a clinic fighting to reduce the impact of HIV by providing free medical services. Access to clean water is a basic human right.

https://twitter.com/PrevencasaAc/status/1363579134178324480

But we didn’t do this alone. It was thanks to your generous donations to our Migrant Humanitarian Fund that we were able to provide clean water to a medical clinic today. If you’d like to make a donation or learn about the fund, click here!

alotrolado.networkforgood.com/projects/96006…

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14 Oct 20

Because of your donations to our #covid19 Humanitarian Migrant Fund, we’ve been able to start (socially distant) breastfeeding and parenting classes out of our Tijuana offices for new parents who have been denied their right to asylum + remain trapped at the border.
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We originally began these classes thinking it would only be for the mothers, but then we realized the fathers were also interested. They would drop off their partners and linger a bit until finally they would end up staying for the whole class!

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We are incredibly sensitive to the trauma our clients have experienced and therefore offer holistic-based programming with an emphasis on natural remedies and healing.

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25 Sep 20

With all that is going on, it is easy to forget that families still remain separated, and we have not stopped our work to reunite them. Over 400 parents were deported without their children and every day we are getting new referrals for cases.

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These parents endured an agony no parent should ever have to. Imagine thinking you’ve finally reached safety w ur child only to have them forcefully taken from you. Their screams burning in ur ears as they cry for mama + papa. America kidnapped these children then lost them. 2/4

Covid had set an unfortunate pause on our reunification work, but we continued to remain in touch and support the parents how ever we could. Now that a bit more movement is allowed we are full steam ahead! We won’t stop until we can reunite as many families as possible.

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