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Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights

Focused on helping immigrant children who arrive at the U.S. border alone, the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights told ABC News in a statement it will be launching the \"Immigrant Child and Family Rights Project\" to assist both unaccompanied children and children separated from their families.

As a part of the project, the Young Center will be hiring two new attorneys to spread their efforts to assign child advocates for minors separated from parents. One attorney will be stationed at the border and the other in New York \"where many of the young, separated children are placed.\" In addition, a new social worker will be hired to work in San Antonio to work on family-separation cases referred to the Young Center in Texas.

\"For children who've been separated from their parents, our role is to advocate with the Department of Homeland Security to reunify the children with their mothers and fathers and to ensure that the mothers and fathers are able to speak on behalf of their children,\" the Young Center told ABC News in a statement. \"Parental rights are intact.\"

We agree with the experts – the government is causing lasting, unnecessary harm to immigrant children. We join them in urging the Administration to end this practice immediately. Read the letter here: https://t.co/4ZlVSysI7n pic.twitter.com/PEP2ubOyt3

— The Young Center (@TheYoungCenter) June 7, 2018

The Young Center says its policy team is working with the public and policymakers to raise awareness of the concerns surrounding the “zero-tolerance” policy enacted by the Trump administration that is separating these families.

Young Center, which has eight locations in the U.S., is \"working closely with child welfare organizations around the country—to communicate to Congress and the Department of Homeland Security that separating children from their mothers and fathers leads to serious harm to children’s health and development.\"

Children's Rights

In addition to partnering with the ACLU in a lawsuit against the policy, Children's Rights has created a toolkit to guide those who wish to help end the \"abhorrent\" policy.

The toolkit includes a petition, directions on how to contact members of Congress, and a donation link.

Family Separation Toolkit: Here's what you can do today to end this cruel and inhumane policy https://t.co/Y3vqjH1XS8 #EndFamilySeparation #ImmigrantChildren pic.twitter.com/4nNPUzIWlE

— Children's Rights (@ChildrensRights) June 18, 2018

\"Needlessly ripping kids, toddlers, babies away from their parents is inhumane, barbaric and unconstitutional. An Administration that purports to uphold family values is callously inflicting devastating trauma on children and families in service of its punitive immigration policies,\" said Sandy Santana, the organization's executive director.

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