A Facebook campaign fund raised $10 million over four days to help reunite immigrant children that have been separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The fundraiser page, “Reunite an immigrant parent with their child”, is raising money to benefit the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, a nonprofit organization. More than 240,000 people have donated to the fund, according to the Facebook page.
The funds will go toward legal representation for immigrant children and parents in Texas, and paying parents’ bond so they can be released from detention centers and reunited with their children. The organization, which has about 50 lawyers on staff, plans to go on a hiring spree and fund training for volunteer lawyers willing to travel to Texas to assist, Jonathan Ryan, executive director of RAICES, said in an interview with The New York Times.
The fundraiser page was created by three former Facebook employees amid rampant backlash over the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy that has caused family separation at the southwest border.
