How to open your home to a Refugee Youth today
"Join the hundreds of foster parents across the United States who are meeting the needs of these vulnerable children and youth in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program."
Foster parents of separated immigrant children ‘don’t know how much worse it could be’
"'Many kids are having nightmares, can't eat, can't sleep ... don't know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear ... the memory never goes away.'"
Border Patrol Recorded Joking About Children Sobbing For Their Parents
"ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying 'Mami' and 'Papi' while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday."
Another shelter for warehoused immigrant children is planned for Houston
"Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children."
Cop sexually assaulted 4-year-old, threatened mother with deportation
"Authorities believe that the assaults had been going on for months and perhaps years; the girl’s mother was allegedly blackmailed by the deputy to 'place her in fear' so she would not report the assaults."
Republicans Join Democrats in Pushing Trump to Halt Family Separations
"The administration argued that it was just enforcing the law."
A Jail for Children
"Your government has separated these children from their families and is detaining them in warehouselike conditions."
Inside the converted Walmart where the U.S. is holding nearly 1,500 immigrant children
"The policy of criminally prosecuting all who cross the border illegally is creating a new category of residents at these holding centers, young boys and girls who are grappling with the trauma of being unexpectedly separated from their mothers and fathers."
Honduran Man Killed Himself After Being Separated From Family at U.S. Border
"Marco Antonio Muñoz, 39, was found on May 13 in his Texas jail cell, 'in a pool of blood with an item of clothing twisted around his neck.'"
Child abuse is now part of America’s official immigration policy
"These are not actions by rogue agents. They are systematic, and they come straight from the top."