#Postcards4Families fundraising campaign lets kids help separated families at the border

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It’s hard not to feel helpless as details regarding the more than 2,300 kids who’ve been separated from their parents at the U.S. and Mexico border continue to come out — including heart-shattering audio from child detention centers.

After brainstorming ways to raise awareness about the harrowing effects of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy, a group of academics came up with a way to help: Writing postcards that accompany donations to help separated families and call on those in power to act.

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George Takei: Taking children from their parents at the border is worse than Japanese internment

George Takei wrote that the plight of detained immigrants at the U.S. border is worse than the Japanese internment camps he was forced into as a child “in one core, horrifying way.” He wasn’t separated from his family like the more than 2,000 childre…

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Elon Musk weighs in on Trump’s immigration policy with a very uninspiring tweet

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Billionaire Elon Musk has a way of kicking up a storm on Twitter from time to time, and he did it again on Tuesday morning by weighing in on Trump’s widely condemned policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Musk tweeted a link to the song “Shelter” by the xx and then followed that up with a rather noncommittal, “I hope the kids are okay.”

Shelter https://t.co/bLVrv0WpJb

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 19, 2018

I hope the kids are ok

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U.S. State Dept. hosts ‘Family Travel Hacks’ Facebook Live as if that’s a totally fine thing to do right now

In times of crisis, one would hope the U.S. Department of State would know how to respond accordingly. Sadly, not this time.
On Tuesday, rather than showing any compassion for the nearly 2,000 children who have been separated from their parents at th…

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