[liberationtech] Let's reunite the kids forcibly torn from their migrant parents

[Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes]

You can contact the following organization:

RAICES
https://www.raicestexas.org/
They were actually working on an “intake app” not sure how far they went, with the permanent state of emergency we’re in in Texas regarding refugee families..

Regards / Saludos / Grato

Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes

> On Jun 20, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That would be awesome! Thanks, Catherine.
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Catherine Forsman <cforsman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for doing this! Let me contact someone I worked with volunteering after Karina and who has a lot of knowledge about the difficulties of coordinating separated families. The coordination effort is quite difficult, but perhaps, even if one child finds their parent, it is worth everything. 
>> 
>> Crowdsourcing is a very good way to think about it, and also mapping. 
>> 
>> Again, let me see if there is any advice I can gather from organizations that do this in how it could get off the ground quickly, even if they can simply let us know best practices. 
>> 
>> warm regards,
>> Catherine
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 3:10 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Note that I'm doing this in a personal capacity and NOT representing or speaking for Stanford in any way. 
>>> 
>>> This is just to kickoff a conversation...
>>> 
>>> Suzanne has obtained a domain name to host a database to keep track of all of the kids who have been forcibly removed from their parents. We need to track down 10K+ children at 100 shelters in 14 states: http://www.businessinsider.com/children-in-custody-trump-administration-immigration-zero-tolerance-policy-2018-5.
>>> 
>>> As Suzanne suggests, we need to figure out how not to enable stalkers or deporting authorities while simultaneously helping the children find their parents, and vice versa. Suzanne suggests something along the lines of anonymous lost child posting: If tip gets added, connect to legal services to screen and verify. She also suggests connecting searching parents with legal services and with people who have tips but not involving law enforcement.
>>> 
>>> Christina suggests finding some good coders to scrape names off news articles. There are a lot of names already there.
>>> 
>>> Organizations that could help:
>>> Southwest key. Christina says that Southwest key has a database of all of the kids but won't provide the info. Does anyone have a good contact there?
>>> IRAP. Lina suggests contacting IRAP: https://refugeerights.org/. Anybody have a contact there?
>>> ACLU. Catherine suggests talking to the ACLU. I know we had several ACLU people on Liberationtech but from the tech angle. I don't know whether they're still on the list?
>>> RAICES. Candace suggests we talk to RAICES. Anybody have a contact there?
>>> I reckon that a massive crowdsourcing effort will be needed. Some crisis mapping might be useful.
>>> 
>>> A question for everyone on Liberationtech and related lists: How does this effort get off the ground quickly? 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yosem
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing the moderator at zakwhitt at stanford.edu.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/attachments/20180620/54d0f531/attachment.html>