Full jugs of water left for future travelers
Photo by Jaleesa Hall
North of the Border
By Alexa Mills, The Washington City Paper,
An article that highlights the efforts by many attorneys, clergy and regular people who want to do something to help those they see suffering on the news all head to the border.
Hope Is Contagious
Everywhere we look kind acts are creating hope. Today is August 7, and two stories about kindness caught my eye:
The first:
How a nasty note from a neighbor helped bring out the best in humanity
A group of strangers came together to help a family struggling to care for a very sick child. As Randa Ragland, the recipient of both the unkind note and the amazing efforts of strangers, says, “Kindness goes along way.”
The second:
Actor Danny Trejo and another bystander, Monica Jackson, freed a child from an overturned car.
Trejo had this to offer when interviewed later:
“Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of helping someone else,” Trejo told CNN affiliate KABC. “Everything.”
This box of donated toothbrushes is destined for Laredo, Tex.
Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post
An Aid Package of Their Own
By Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post,
An article that talks about this project’s origin. Since this article, we have been amazed to watch the community grow, and come together in hope, and generously support this project with their time, energy and resources.
A little-known Border Patrol station in Clint, Tex., has become the public face of the chaos on America’s southern border, after lawyers reported seeing filthy, overcrowded conditions for migrant children there.
Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times
Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Texas
By SIMON ROMERO, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, MANNY FERNANDEZ, DANIEL BORUNDA, AARON MONTES and CAITLIN DICKERSON,
This story was a collaboration between The New York Times and The El Paso Times.
Opinion: Childhood Trauma Is Public Health Threat. Kids Deserve Better
Nadine Burke Harris, Surgeon General of California, talks about what happens in a child’s mind when exposed to trauma, and the impact on development. Please note, the scenes can be disturbing.
Video credits: Kate Woodsome, Joshua Carroll, Sarah Hashemi, James Pace-Cornsilk/The Washington Post, Photo: Sarah Hashemi/The Washington Post
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Management Alert – DHS Needs to Address Dangerous Overcrowding Among Single Adults at El Paso Del Norte Processing Center (Redacted)
The Office of the Inspector General releases suggestion to address their immediate concerns regarding the detention centers, with particular focus on the center in El Paso.
A border station in Clint, Tex., where hundreds of migrant children are being held. Credit: Cedar Attanasio/Associated Press
‘There Is a Stench’: Soiled Clothes and No Baths for Migrant Children at a Texas Center
New York Times, by Caitlin Dickerson, June 21, 2019
This article, which reports on the conditions with the children’s detention center in Clint, Texas, inspired the launch of the Solve It Today humanitarian project. SolveItToday.org.
© loren elliott/Reuters Migrants pictured outside the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in Texas.
As Border Crisis Worsens, a Detention Center Designed for Children Has None
by Dan Frosch and Alicia A. Caldwell, Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2019.
The link goes to MSN.com, which has reprinted the article that originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on July 5, 2019.
If you have a subscription, you can read it on WSJ.com
As Border Crisis Worsens, a Detention Center Designed for Children Has None
“This Morning with Gordon Deal”: Detention centers designed for children are going unused as others reach capacity. Alicia Caldwell from the Wall Street Journal has the story.
McAllen Orders Catholic Charities To Vacate Immigrant Respite Center
by Mitchell Ferman, The Monitor, February 11, 2019