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Project Amplify
Project Amplify is a national campaign launched to establish legal protections for children in government care so that the brutality discovered on the border in June never happens again. How? We are sharing the children’s stories themselves in their own words with the public in a variety of amplification events around the country that will also include experts in medicine, mental health, law, economics, immigration, human trafficking, history, social welfare and the arts. Visit Project Amplify
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How to Get Children Out of Cages by Warren Binford, Michael Garcia Bochenek
The evidence is consistent, and damning—children are being hurt. We don’t have to agree on the outcome in order to do the right thing.
The evidence is consistent, and damning—children are being hurt. We don’t have to agree on the outcome in order to do the right thing.
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Concentration Camps
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2600 Magazine has compiled a full listing of Customs and Border Patrol stations, a number of which are being used to imprison migrants, immigrants, and/or refugees, many of whom are children.
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Lights for Liberty July 12, 2019 Protest at Portland, Oregon ICE Detention Center
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These are three organizations, of many, who are doing crucial work helping immigrants. You can see more local and national organizations in the ACT links below.
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LEARN
Learn
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This list contains news articles and links to important documents about the conditions of the children. Search for "Download" to find the documents.
| Description | Date | Link | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites in Three Texas Cities Eyed for Permanent Child Detention Centers | 7/6/2019 | NBC DFW | Jeff Martin |
| Reminder: Trump doesn’t need to keep migrants in detention camps | 7/4/2019 | VOX | Alexia Fernández Campbell |
| Federal Judge Blocks Trump Policy Ordering Indefinite Detention For Asylum-Seekers | 7/3/2019 | NPR | Vanessa Romo |
| Trump administration ending in-person interpreters at immigrants’ first hearings | 7/3/2019 | San Francisco Chronicle | Tal Kopan |
| The conditions in the border cells are shocking, but the right just uses public outrage as an excuse to build more jails | 7/3/2019 | The Guardian | Brianna Rennix and Nathan Robinson |
| What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse | 7/3/2019 | The Atlantic | Jeremy Raff |
| ‘Saving Lives is not a Crime’: Politically Motivated Legal Harassment of Migrant Human Rights Defenders by the USA | 7/2/2019 | Amnesty International | Amnesty International |
| These Pictures Show The "Dangerous" Overcrowding At Border Patrol Facilities | 7/2/2019 | Buzzfeed News | Hamed Aleaziz |
| This is Hell on Earth | 7/2/2019 | Splinter | Samantha Grasso |
| Rep. Joaquin Castro posts videos purportedly of Texas migrant detention centers | 7/2/2019 | ABCNews | Morgan Winsor |
| DHS Inspector General Finds 'Dangerous Overcrowding' in Border Patrol Facilities | 7/2/2019 | NPR | Joel Rose, John Burnett |
| ‘Nothing Prepares You for the Inhumanity of It’ At a visit to Border Patrol facilities this week, the freshman congresswoman Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania met weeping women and exchanged notes with detained children. | 7/2/2019 | The Atlantic | Elaine Godfrey |
| "Man camp" holding facility for migrant children opens with possible $300 million contract | 7/2/2019 | CBSNews | Graham Kates |
| Agents feared riots, armed themselves because of dire conditions at migrant facility, DHS report says | 7/1/2019 | NBC News | Julia Ainsley and Jacob Soboroff |
| More Than 700 Migrants Forced to Share 4 Showers at Texas Border Patrol Station | 7/1/2019 | Vice News | Gaby Del Valle |
| Trump Is Dumping Asylum Seekers on American Streets—but Solidarity Activists Are Fighting Back | 7/1/2019 | The Nation | Sasha Abramsky |
| More Than 400 Holocaust, genocide experts think Ocasio-Cortez should be allowed to call migrant detention centers "concentration camps" | 7/1/2019 | Newsweek | Jason Lemon |
| Management Alert – DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding and Prolonged Detention of Children and Adults in the Rio Grande Valley | 7/1/2019 | Download PDF | Office Of Inspector General Department of Homeland Security. Jennifer L. Costello Acting Inspector General |
| Holocaust scholars ask DC museum to stop rejecting border camp comparisons | 7/1/2019 | CNN | Kate Sullivan |
| Trump DOJ Fought To Prevent Doctors From Visiting Children In Trump’s Camps | 7/1/2019 | MavenRoundtable | Jake Thomas |
| I was one of the lawyers who visited the Clint detention facility. I want to know why the government won’t let independent physicians assess the sickest children. | 6/30/2019 | Slate | Elora Mukherjee |
| Under Siege And Largely Secret: Businesses That Serve Immigration Detention | 6/30/2019 | NPR | Yuki Noguchi |
| History Has Taught Us That Concentration Camps Should Be Liberated. We Can’t Wait Until 2020 | 6/29/2019 | The Intercept | Shaun King |
| Save these children’s lives, now: The humane answer to the border catastrophe | 6/27/2019 | NY Daily News | Warren Binford and Mary Kelly Persyn |
| Horrific detention center conditions expose Trump’s true immigration policy: unmitigated, unrelenting cruelty | 6/26/2019 | SPLC | Mary Bauer |
| Children Remain in Dangerous Conditions on the Texas Border | 6/25/2019 | New Yorker | Isaac Chotiner |
| An Oregon lawyer visited border patrol facilities in the El Paso sector; here’s what she knows and what it means. | 6/25/2019 | OregonLive | Christina Morales |
| Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border | 6/23/2019 | PorPublica | Ginger Thompson |
| Opinion: The 'Filthy And Uncomfortable Circumstances' Of Detained Migrant Children | 6/22/2019 | NPR | Scott Simon |
| Open Letter from An Ex-Border Patrol Agent | 6/18/2019 | Southern Border Communities Coalition | Jenn Budd |
| Premature Baby Found in Overcrowded Border Patrol Facility in Texas | 6/13/2019 | KTLA | Associated Press |
| In El Paso, Border Patrol Is Detaining Migrants in ‘a Human Dog Pound’ | 6/11/2019 | Texas Monthly | Robert Moore |
| US immigration officials looking at housing migrant children at Guantánamo Bay, report says | 4/24/2019 | Independent | Clark Mindock |
| One In Six Migrant Children In The U.S. Are Staying At A Shelter Operated By A Private Equity Tycoon | 4/10/2019 | Forbes | Deniz Cam |
| Sexual Assault Of Detained Migrant Children Reported In The Thousands Since 2015 | 2/26/2019 | NPR | Richard Gonzalez |
| Statement of Commander of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services On Refugees | 2/2/2019 | Download the PDF | Jonathan White |
| More Undocumented Migrants Are Caught Here Than Anywhere Else. It’s Also Ground Zero For Migrant Deaths | 12/28/2018 | Matter of Fact TV | Soledad O'Brien |
| Activist artists alter billboard near San Francisco to deliver anti-ICE message | 6/21/2018 | CBSNews | CBS News |
ACT
Act
Options for action. Use whatever resources, skills and time you have effectively. Every action, no matter how small can be of service.
| Description | Date | Link | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make the Road New York builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice. | 7/27/2019 | Make the Road New York | Make the Road NY |
| For 10 years, the New Sanctuary Coalition has been led by and for immigrants to stop the inhumane system of deportations and detentions in this country. | 7/27/2019 | New Sanctuary Coalition | New Sanctuary Coalition |
| New York Immigration Coalition Help empower immigrant communities. | 7/27/2019 | New York Immigration Coalition | New York Immigration Coalition |
| CALLING ALL FAITH LEADERS, CLERGY, & CONGRESSPERSONS TO JOIN US FOR MORAL MONDAY AT THE BORDERLANDS JULY 28-29 + EL PASO, TEXAS | 7/27/2019 | Moral Monday at the Borderlands | Repairers of The Breach |
| Border Angels prevents unneccesary deaths and harm reduction through desert water drops, border rescue stations and day labourer outreach | 7/27/2019 | Border Angels | Border Angels |
| The Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School in partnership with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center created the attached toolkit to help advocates provide advice in light of the expansion of expedited removal. | 7/27/2019 | Download | Immigrant Legal Resource Center |
| How to Get Children Out of Cages | 7/27/2019 | The Progressive | Warren Binford, Michael Garcia Bochenek |
| Children's Rights in the U.S. | 7/5/2019 | AmericanSPCC | American Society for the Positive Care of Children |
| Host a Screening: Families Torn Apart: America’s Deadly Immigration Policy | 7/3/2019 | Brave New Films | Brave New Films |
| Sign Freedom for Immigrants pledge to support community-based hosting and accompaniment groups to end family separations. | 7/3/2019 | Freedom for Immigrants | Freedom for Immigrants |
| TCRP is fighting around the clock to reunite the 381 families we represent and to ensure that they get excellent legal representation on their underlying immigration claims. | 7/3/2019 | Texas Civil Rights Project | Texas Civil Rights Project |
| Bonds, Legal Assistance, Detention Assistance, Support After Release | 7/3/2019 | Immigrant Families Together | Immigrant Families Together |
| Help These Groups Provide Aid To Migrants. You Can Help Them Reunite Families. Donate. Volunteer. | 7/3/2019 | Help Detained Children | Help Detained Children |
| RAICES provides free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees in Texas. | 7/3/2019 | RAICES | RAICES |
| Immigrants’ Rights Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them. | 7/3/2019 | ACLU | ACLU |
| Sanctuary Coalition of Many Denominations | 7/3/2019 | Sanctuary | Sanctuary Not Deportation |
| Lights for Liberty 7/12/2019 Nationwide Vigil | 7/3/2019 | Lights for Liberty | Lights for Liberty |
| Pledge your airline miles to help coordinate travel for immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and attorneys providing pro bono immigration services | 7/3/2019 | Lawyers for Good Government | Lawyers for Good Government |
| Advocates say the fastest way to help immigrants separated from their children: Post their bail | 7/3/2019 | Market Watch | Kari Paul |
| What Should Democrats Do to Help Children at the Border? | 6/26/2019 | The New Yorker | Isaac Chotiner |
| Prisons Weren't Built For Children. Here's What We Can Do | 6/26/2019 | Sojourners | Michael Hunn |
| How to Help Children Detained at the US Border | 6/26/2019 | Human Rights Watch | Michael Garcia Bochenek |
| What You Can Do to Close the Camps | 6/22/2019 | YOPPVOICE | Kella Hanna-Wayne |
| How to Protest Human Rights Abuses at U.S. Detention Center | 6/21/2019 | Lifehacker | Nicole Dieker |
| Texas Tribune list of organizations that are mobilizing to try to help children separated from their parents and asylum seekers at the Texas-Mexico border | 6/18/2019 | Texas Tribune | Alex Samuels |
BE INSPIRED
Be Inspired
Inspirational stories of building momentum for change.
| Description | Date | Link | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| SunTrust to stop financing private prisons and immigrant-detention centers | 7/8/2019 | LA Times | Bloomberg |
| This volunteer patrol warns immigrants if ICE is in their neighborhoods | 7/6/2019 | San Diego Union Tribune | Gustavo Solis |
| Jews are taking action to shut down ICE #NeverAgain: Actions and Updates | 7/5/2019 | Never Again | Never Again |
| Jewish Groups Protest at Pelosi’s Office, Demand Closure of Border Migrant Facilities | 7/5/2019 | KQED | Chloe Veltman |
| Boston Traffic Stops For Hundreds Protesting Immigration Detention Center Conditions | 7/2/2019 | CBS Boston | Mike LaCrosse |
| Rally Over ICE Detention Center Conditions Turns Into March That Shuts Down Market Street | 7/2/2019 | SFist | Jay Barmann |
| Federal judge orders prompt mediation to determine if detention facilities and child migrants are safe | 7/2/2019 | CNN | Artemis Moshtaghian and Eliott C. McLaughlin |
| ‘Close the Camps’ protests take place across nation, including Lubbock | 7/2/2019 | KCBD | Melanie Camacho |
| Border agents confiscated lawmakers’ phones. Joaquin Castro captured photo and video anyway | 7/2/2019 | WAPO | Katie Mettler, Mike DeBonis and Reis Thebault |
| U.S. bishop personally escorts asylum seekers across U.S.-Mexico border | 6/28/2019 | CruxNow | Christopher White |
| Bank of America will no longer do business with companies that run detention centers | 6/26/2019 | CNN | CNN Business |
| Highlights Magazine Issues Statement Condemning Trump's Detention Centers | 6/25/2019 | CBR | Meagan Damore |
| Glennon Doyle raises $2 million for child immigrants in 48 hours | 6/24/2019 | TODAY | Meghan Holohan |
| We Will Provide Sanctuary From Ice Raids In Our Sacred Space | 6/22/2019 | All Saints Church | Mike Kinman |
| Cities Nationwide Refuse To Cooperate With ICE’s Mass Deportation Raids | 6/21/2019 | HuffPost | Carla Herreria |
| New York attorney general: State will not cooperate with Trump-ordered ICE raids | 6/21/2019 | Pix11 | Pix11 News |
| I Used To Detain Migrants At The Border. Now I Help Them | 5/31/2019 | Southern Border Communities Coalition | Jenn Budd |
| We care for refugee children in Uganda. It’s really not that hard to do it with decency | 4/24/2019 | WAPO | Haydee Diaz |
| 7 activist groups supporting families at the border that need your help right now | 6/18/2018 | Mashable | Nicolle Gallucci |
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