How to Help Children Detained at the US Border

Expand Clint border patrol station, Texas, June 2019. © 2019 Warren Binford Prompted by public outcry over the news that children detained in US immigration holding cells don’t have enough food, water, or care, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have said they’re looking for ways to make sure that what we saw in the Clint, Texas facility last week doesn’t happen again. Here are four things you can ask the US Congress to do now: End family separation. Yes, it’s still happening. Congress can and should require US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to stop separating kids from parents and…

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