An urgent alert from the US Section of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
How to Help Children Kidnapped at the Border
Dear WILPF friends,
Now we have many ways to help the kidnapped children at the borders. We are powerful if we stand together.
Go to the Washington Post map to see where people have reported children are being kept. If there's a location near you, get some friends together and decide on the appropriate action -- for example, surround the place, bring teddy bears and toys and books, play music, let them know you're there for them. Send the map to your friends and colleagues to ask them to add to it if they find further places. Keep checking as it changes every day.
Keep in touch with National WILPF to see or add to statements; watch the eAlerts.
Use this webpageput together by Families Belong Together to find an action near you on June 30. The interactive map is for the whole country, so pass it on to your friends in other states. Bring appropriate signs -- and WILPF signs -- and get friends to go with you. Keep the pressure on the administration to adhere to their new policy of not separating families, to find those children already dispersed, and to end ICE detention for asylum-seekers.
Donate to groups that are helping.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project - prevents wrongful deportations by connecting refugee families to community support and emergency legal aid.
Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) - protecting unaccompanied children who enter the US immigration system alone to ensure that no child appears in court without an attorney.
La Union del Pueblo Entero - founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, a community union that works in the Rio Grande Valley from the grassroots up.
United We Dream - the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country.
We Belong Together - mobilizes women in support of common sense immigration policies that will keep families together and empower women.
Women's Refugee Commission - advocating for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution.
Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) - protecting unaccompanied children who enter the US immigration system alone to ensure that no child appears in court without an attorney.