HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP END THE...

Abby Wambach, text's publication from 2019-06-24 11:46:50 :
HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP END THE CHILD DETENTION ATROCITIES
13,100 children are imprisoned right now in federal custody — alone, without their families -- facing horrifying neglect and abuse.

Today, we will give these kids a defender who will step in front of the abuse they are facing, a protector who will ensure that the atrocities end, and an advocate who will make sure those responsible are held accountable.

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Holly Cooper, Co-director of the Immigration Law Clinic at UC Davis, and her team have inspected more than 30 detention centers over the last few years, saving countless kids.

Last month, their legal team found a premature infant so ill she would have died without immediate treatment. Their lawyers and doctors fought federal authorities to transport the baby to the hospital. And saved her life. Same with 3 more gravely ill toddlers.

The team is finding kids held in solitary confinement, kids forcibly sedated with drugs, use of pepper spray against kids . . . the atrocities go on and on.

As an attorney of record in the crucial FLORES settlement, Holly’s team is one of only a handful of legal teams in the world with the right to access CBP facilities, demand inspections, obtain full medical files of the kids, and procure the census of every child detained. This makes them absolutely vital to investigating, communicating and advocating in the nationwide movement to protect the children and end the abuse. Holly’s team has brought 3 class actions with national impact. Her funding is gone to see these suits to completion and we must ensure this vital work continues.

We will BOTH continue to rehabilitate and reunify these babies. AND we will defend them to end this cycle of horror. $240,000 will get Holly’s team what they need to continue this AND/BOTH work for 2 years: Get to the sites for inspections, interview kids, remove them to protect their health and safety, and build legal cases to ensure that these government atrocities end.

There are 13,100 kids right now desperately praying for a defender and protector. Let’s do this.

As always, we will put every penny Together Rising receives from your tax-deductible gifts toward these kids Please give at togetherrising.org/give

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