Posts Tagged ‘family reunification’

It’s been more than three years for families who were separated since those parents have held their babies. Three years. Once three-year-olds are now six. Precious moments—years—have been forever lost. As Erika shared with us yesterday, every day that goes by is an “excruciating eternity” for these parents.  Can you imagine being forcibly separated from…

Today, we hear directly from our trusted partner Erika Pinheiro, whose organization, Al Otro Lado, has reunited more separated families—parents were deported without their children—than any other organization, in conversation with Together Rising Board member Amanda Doyle. In partnership with Erika, Together Rising has reunited 35 families who were deemed impossible to find and ineligible…

For the past three years, through Together Rising, you have continued to fight tirelessly for separated families and unaccompanied children. When others have moved on, you have remained standing in solidarity with these families — deploying an incredible $9,397,703.37 over the last three years — a critical investment that has enabled our boots-on-the-ground partners to: …

In 2019, after the then-administration tore thousands of children away from their parents, it then deported hundreds of parents without their children. Through our boots-on-the-ground warrior partners, Together Rising learned of 90 of these deported parents who had been deemed impossible to find. They had no cell phones, lived in rural villages and many only…

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the incredible advocate Erika Pinheiro on the two-year anniversary of the most important story we’ve ever told:  How you, through Together Rising and Erika’s organization Al Otro Lado, miraculously found 90 parents who’d had their children ripped from their arms under the previous administration’s zero tolerance policy, and were…

Three years. That’s how long some of these babies have been torn away from their families. At least 545 of the thousands of parents whom the Administration separated from their children still haven’t been found. Read that again: 545 of the parents who were torn from their children by the Administration up to three years…

Update – Jan. 25 You raised $175,274.08 for separated families in 48 hours. Thank you. Last week, you sent the funds needed to locate six families and coordinate their boarding a plane in Guatemala and returning to the United States so they could be reunited with their babies. Those parents had been separated from their…

This is the story of two of the families whose lives you’ve changed through your most recent investment of $200,000 in Al Otro Lado – funds devoted to identifying the most vulnerable children at risk in the US migrant detention system, and marshaling volunteers and attorneys to advocate on their behalf.     Both of…

FINALLY – THEY’RE ALL REUNITING WITH THEIR BABIES!!!! On 3/2, through Together Rising, you stood vigil on the border with 29 families who came to reclaim their children. These parents had their children ripped from their arms by the administration, and were then illegally deported without their children. After we crossed, 17 of these asylum-seeking…