A heart-rending viral image of a 2-year-old girl crying as she and her mother are detained at the U.S.- Mexico border inspired two people to begin a fund-raising campaign. Their project also went viral, raising $4,000 a minute, reported The Verge.
Charlotte and Dave Wilner originally started the campaign to raise $1,500, enough to help pay the bond fees for the 2-year-old girl’s mother, who is an asylum- seeker from Honduras.
Charlotte and Dave Wilner originally started the campaign to raise $1,500, enough to help pay the bond fees for the 2-year-old girl’s mother, who is an asylum- seeker from Honduras.
Under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, people caught crossing the U.S.- Mexico border illegally are prosecuted as criminals and sent to federal jails instead of immigration detention centers.
Since children cannot be held in these facilities, until courts intervened, more than 2,000 migrant children were separated from their parents and detained in different facilities.
“We are collectively repulsed at what’s happening to immigrant families on our southern border. In times when we often think that the news can’t possibly get worse, it does,” Charlotte Wilner wrote on the fundraiser’s Facebook page. Due to the immense support for the cause, the campaign is set to raise $5 million, which will be donated to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas nonprofit.
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“We are collectively repulsed at what’s happening to immigrant families on our southern border. In times when we often think that the news can’t possibly get worse, it does,” Charlotte Wilner wrote on the fundraiser’s Facebook page. Due to the immense support for the cause, the campaign is set to raise $5 million, which will be donated to the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a Texas nonprofit.
https://sanquentinnew.wpengine.com/immigration-assistance/
https://sanquentinnew.wpengine.com/fbi-stings-entangle-sex-workers-victims-perpetrators/
https://sanquentinnew.wpengine.com/san-quentin-mourns-loss-long-time-volunteer/
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