Candle has been lit by Lumiere in Remembrance of Children needing Help
Children facing Deportation
In the years I have been working in Lumiere, I have seen children lying under railway bridges. I have seen children sobbing. Children with broken legs. Children saved from trafficking. Children with heads painful with scabs, pus oozed sores over the scalp. Children malnourished. Children starving. Children with lice in their hair and wild looks in their eyes. Children cowering in fear. Children running up for comfort. Children rocking and wailing in a corner, lost in a personal world of horror.
How tragic is the lot of a child who does not receive that basic human right; love, protection, a legal name, legal rights, kinship. And how lonely the child who has none to stand up for her or him.
Upwards of 52,000 Children
Lumiere Charity has received report from Alex Badduke that Upwards of 52,000 Children have allegedly been detained and await deportation hearings at the U.S. Southwest border.
The situation has allegedly been declared a humanitarian crisis by President Obama and it has been resolved to expedite hearings. In the wake of this crisis, the issue of legal representation becomes especially important.
No child should face a deportation judge by themselves.
But thousands will be alone, reportedly facing deportation without an attorney.
Some are as young at 5-years-old.
Alex requests that petition be signed to provide legal representation so that no child is alone on their trial date. As per the petition, these children need proper legal representation.
The children face dreadful dangers as many of them reportedly flee from gang violence in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Many of the children die. An 11 year old Guatemalan boy was allegedly found dead in the brush a mile from the Mexican border. This little innocent was found with no shirt, just a white rosary.
What were his last hours like? What were the conditions he was fleeing from? With what faith in Divine Providence, his only possession a white rosary, did he leave this earth.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra reportedly apprised that his officers encounter decomposed bodies 'quite often'.
Why not sign the petition to support fair legal representation for all children facing deportation?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/967/841/269/
Lumiere Charity has received report from Alex Badduke that Upwards of 52,000 Children have allegedly been detained and await deportation hearings at the U.S. Southwest border.
The situation has allegedly been declared a humanitarian crisis by President Obama and it has been resolved to expedite hearings. In the wake of this crisis, the issue of legal representation becomes especially important.
No child should face a deportation judge by themselves.
But thousands will be alone, reportedly facing deportation without an attorney.
Some are as young at 5-years-old.
Alex requests that petition be signed to provide legal representation so that no child is alone on their trial date. As per the petition, these children need proper legal representation.
The children face dreadful dangers as many of them reportedly flee from gang violence in Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Many of the children die. An 11 year old Guatemalan boy was allegedly found dead in the brush a mile from the Mexican border. This little innocent was found with no shirt, just a white rosary.
What were his last hours like? What were the conditions he was fleeing from? With what faith in Divine Providence, his only possession a white rosary, did he leave this earth.
Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra reportedly apprised that his officers encounter decomposed bodies 'quite often'.
Why not sign the petition to support fair legal representation for all children facing deportation?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/967/841/269/
Perhaps Divine Providence has led you to read these words.
Is there anything that can be done to help these poor innocents
gain shelter, schooling, food and a brighter future?
In the Spirit of Lumiere, is there anything you can do to help?
gain shelter, schooling, food and a brighter future?
In the Spirit of Lumiere, is there anything you can do to help?
Emergency Aid Won't Solve Immigration Courts Problems -
Border Humanitarian Crisis adds Stress to an Already Overburdened System
Illegal Immigration; Amid flood of kids, 11-year-old's death adds human face
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0701/Illegal-immigration-Amid-flood-of-kids-11-year-old-s-death-adds-human-face-video
Q & A on child immigration crisis with Law School's Maria Woltjen
http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/07/14/qa-child-immigration-crisis-law-schools-maria-woltjen
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
http://theyoungcenter.org/
Convention on the Rights of the Child
http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx
With thanks to Thepetitionsite/ Nationallawjournal.com/ csmonitor.com/ news.uchicago.edu/ Theyoungcenter.org/
ohchr.org
http://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx
With thanks to Thepetitionsite/ Nationallawjournal.com/ csmonitor.com/ news.uchicago.edu/ Theyoungcenter.org/
ohchr.org
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