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uppityperson

(115,681 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 06:18 PM Jun 2018

ireallydocare (donation links to help the children)




Since Melania Trump's jacket said "I really don't care"...

I set up http://ireallydocare.com

Click the link and it'll take you to a site where you can donate to 14 awesome groups helping immigrants all at once. Feel free to RT if that's your jam.




(Link goes to https://t.co/GL1FF0KpBs?amp=1
which goes to https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kidsattheborder
Support Kids at the Border
Chip in to critical groups working to protect kids separated from their families by ICE:



Al Otro Lado - serves indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana & Los Angeles

https://www.alotrolado.org



The Florence Project - providing legal & social services to detained immigrants in Arizona

https://firrp.org/



Neta - a Latinx-run progressive media platform telling the stories of what's happening on the border

https://www.netargv.com



Innovation Law Lab - working in immigrant detention centers and hostile judicial districts; keeping the definitive list of kids being held

https://www.innovationlawlab.org



Fuerza Del Valle - organizing workers & immigrant communities in the Rio Grande Valley

http://www.fuerzadelvalle.org/



The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights - promoting the best interests of unaccompanied immigrant children

https://www.theyoungcenter.org/



We Belong Together - women for common sense immigration policies

https://www.webelongtogether.org/



United We Dream - the largest immigrant youth-led network in the country

https://unitedwedream.org/



Womens Refugee Commission - advocating for the rights and protection of women, children, and youth fleeing violence and persecution

https://www.womensrefugeecommission.org/



ACLU - fighting attacks through the legal system

http://www.aclu.org



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.

https://supportkind.org/



Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project - providing asylum seekers with legal aid and community support across the country

https://asylumadvocacy.org/



Human Rights First - helping refugees obtain asylum in the U.S.

https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/



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

https://lupenet.org/

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ireallydocare (donation links to help the children) (Original Post) uppityperson Jun 2018 OP
K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #1
Thank you uppityperson Jun 2018 #3
Another K&R! Guilded Lilly Jun 2018 #2
KnR SammyWinstonJack Jun 2018 #4
Another K&R - thank you for this post! nt scarletwoman Jun 2018 #5
K&R. Link to AdAge article about this: highplainsdem Jun 2018 #6
Just so I understand? qwlauren35 Jun 2018 #7
Yes, that's my take on it. uppityperson Jun 2018 #8
Thanks for posting, uppityperson DesertRat Jun 2018 #9
Awesome!! I think this Backfired on Fraud.. whatever their Cha Jun 2018 #10

qwlauren35

(6,154 posts)
7. Just so I understand?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:47 PM
Jun 2018

This ends up going through SecureBlue? (I trust them.)

I don't know this woman and I'm looking for some encouragement to donate. I like the idea of money going to everyone because I wouldn't be able to choose.

Cha

(298,152 posts)
10. Awesome!! I think this Backfired on Fraud.. whatever their
Fri Jun 22, 2018, 01:52 AM
Jun 2018

intent. As some say a Distraction from the egregious border Family Separation Crisis.

It just Highlighted their don't give a shite attitude and all kinds of Good things are springing up.



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