To my fellow citizens of the blog world.
What can you make up of this? Please let me know what you think and feel we should do, considering our position on the immigration laws. Under human rights programs, should we be obligated to extend our hands? When do we say no? Or shouldn't we?
Thanks all for your reads.
Just received this today.
Human Rights
Dear Phyllis,
Children threatened and alone. Mothers desperately looking for help. Every day, families in search of protection are sent to detention centers near the U.S.-Mexico border. Many of these vulnerable people may have legal claims as refugees. It’s a critical moment for justice.
You can help.
Human Rights First has long stood as a leader in refugee representation. We try to make sure that everyone gets a fair hearing and due process by matching pro bono attorneys with refugees in need.
And we’ve been successfully working with refugees for decades:
We’ve had a hand in nearly every major piece of human rights legislation in the United States, including the Refugee Act of 1980, the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, and the Refugee Crisis in Iraq Act.
Thirty years ago, when the United States launched an unprecedented program of mandatory detention of Haitian boat people arriving in Florida, we helped secure the release of 1,800 refugees after finding volunteer lawyers to represent them.
Starting in 2012, we hosted meaningful dialogues across the country on the state of the immigration detention system. From Los Angeles to New Orleans, from Phoenix to Austin, the dialogues brought together unlikely partners to apply lessons learned from criminal justice reform to the immigration detention system.
Last year alone, we provided legal services worth more than $30 million to more than 900 refugees, winning more than 90 percent of our cases.
This year, we expanded our award-winning program to Houston to serve the needs of the local immigrant community.
We’ve been reporting from the border and the detention centers so that no one can forget the people who are waiting for our help. The U.S. government isn’t taking care of these families. We must.
It’s hard to imagine another organization better positioned to help in this crisis. You can reach out to those seeking safety, justice and a new life in the United States.
Please support our refugee protection work by making a gift to Human Rights First today.
Warm regards,
Elisa Massimino
President and CEO
P.S. Thanks to the generosity of The Atlantic Philanthropies, any new or increased gifts will be matched.
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it's our inherent human flaw. Imperfections. 
We can't ever change that
But staying after such a grim discovery of unfaithful affair is difficult if not plain wrong. 
