Advocating Against Family Separation
Nationwide demonstrations this week: https://truthout.org/articles/nationwide-demonstrations-announced-to-protest-immigrant-detention-centers/
Online petition from Jeff Merkley’s website: https://www.jeffmerkley.com/petition/child-separation/e/
MoveOn action page, free Close the Camps stickers: https://act.moveon.org/survey/closethecamps-sticker/
Next Thursday, October 11, join a Livestream conversation with the American Immigration Council regarding Children and the Long-Term Effects of Family Separation. Click here for more information and to register.
On Monday, October 29 and Tuesday, October 30 in Portland, join the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) in partnership with Catholic Charities’ Center for Immigration Defense, for a two-day Introduction to Removal Defense course which will include basics of asylum law, withholding, CAT, bond proceedings, removal proceedings and cancellation of removal. CLE credit is being applied for. Click here for more information and to register.
CNN has this powerful story and video about a group of mothers separated from their children, and the letters they have written from detention.
‘I wouldn’t wish it even on my worst enemy’: Reunited immigrant moms write letters from detention
Immigration Justice Campaign and the Dilley Pro Bono Project invite you to join their social media campaign to free the 39 families who have endured months of detention with no end in sight. Here’s what you can do:
1. Spread the word on social media using the hashtag #FreetheFamilies.
2. Read the letters in their entirety on the Immigration Justice Campaign website.
3. Stay tuned for opportunities to send your comments to the government on the administration’s proposed Flores regulations, which if implemented could result in the indefinite detention of thousands more immigrant children.
OWLS Member May Low, Chief of Staff at Catholic Charities shared this event with us which will be held on Thursday, June 27 at noon. This one hour Facebook Live event hosts a discussion on new, existing, and past border policies & how they affect children crossing the border.
“Hear from two of our immigration and refugee experts, and learn what you can do to be most helpful in the midst of this crisis. We’ll be selecting questions during the LIVE event for a mini Q&A session at the end.”
Please join Kelsey Keswani and Sarah Purce in this Facebook LIVE event this Thursday.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/181433215860603/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bkd1pzPBTiZ/?taken-by=catholiccharitiesoforegon (for Instagram LIVE following)
Shared by OWLS Executive Director Linda Tomassi:
Lawyer Moms of America, Oregon Chapter (Facebook) asked that I ask you to be signatories on this letter.
They also requested you join one of the letter deliveries under the Events. All of them are at NOON on Friday, June 29, except Kurt Schrader’s office in Salem, which is at 12:30 pm.
Here are the details:
OWLS Unite Families 