Texas Nonprofit That Raised Millions Launches Hotline to Reunite Families

A week ago, NPQ covered the story of a Texas-based nonprofit, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES), which has now received $20 million in donations from a public reacting to the Trump administration’s policy separating children from their parents when families enter the country seeking asylum. It was not at that time exactly clear how all of that money would be spent, but the organization has now announced it has established a database of separated children and a hotline to help reunite families separated under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. Even now, after Trump has rescinded his policy, as many as 2,500 children remain in detention.