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Dear Friend,
Carlos grew up in an Indigenous community in Central America. After fleeing the community he grew up in because of increasing levels of violence, he arrived at the U.S. - Mexico border with his brother. However, immigration officials separated the two, placing Carlos in a children’s facility and his adult brother in immigration jail.
Carlos was devastated by this unexpected separation and was placed at a treatment facility where they attempted to provide him with psychosocial support. But these attempts were unsuccessful because the facility could not find a provider who spoke Carlos’s native language. Meanwhile, the government released his brother to their older sister, who lives in the United States.
Our Young Center Child Advocates quickly got to work: We advocated that, because the facility he was at could not provide Carlos with the appropriate mental health services he needed, he would be safer and healthier with his family, who could provide love, care and support to Carlos while he accessed mental health support services in the community. Our advocacy resulted in the government approving his release from custody and reunification with family where he could begin to recover from multiple traumas.
Carlos is one child among dozens of the Indigenous immigrant children we serve. Your support is critical for our work. Give today and help us reach our fundraising goal of $100,000.00 by midnight.
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