re: This is a short email about how to help the families being separated at the border:

MAJOR UPDATE: Earlier today, Donald Trump [signed an executive order to 'end family separation' by locking up whole families indefinitely.]( You read that right: Trump is going to lock these children up indefinitely and try to spin it as a way to reunite families. This is an outrageous and despicable move, even for him. [Please, if you haven't already, chip in to one or more of these charities listed below that is working to directly aid these families.]( Thank you again, Michael Langenmayr, Daily Kos Here's the email we sent yesterday about these charities: --------------------------------------------------------------- Friend, I want to repeat something my colleague Amanda said yesterday: It's easy to feel helpless. The news coming from the southern border is heartbreaking, and the lies coming out of the Trump administration to justify what's happening at the border are outrageous and disturbing. But if you are looking for ways to directly aid the families being separated, [please consider chipping in to these charities](: - We Belong Together - Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) - Women's Refugee Commission - Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project - Texas Civil Rights Project - La Union Del Pueblo Entero Trump, Sessions, Nielsen—they want you to feel powerless. That's why it's more important than ever to take action and to fight back. [Click here to chip in to one or more of these charities now.]( Thank you Michael Langenmayr, Daily Kos P.S. I know not everyone that wants to help has the financial means to support these charities. If you're unable to chip in to one of the charities above, please take a minute to call your senators at (202) 224-3121 to talk about the Keep Families Together Act, a bill that would stop child separations at the border. Every Democrat in the Senate has signed on in support (so if you have a Democratic senator, please thank them!) but not a single Republican has (so if you have a Republican senator, please urge them to sign on). P.P.S. Here's Amanda's email from yesterday in case you missed it: --------------------------------------------------------------- AMANDA'S EMAIL: Friend, Trump's Department of Homeland Security is separating children from their families under the pretense of "national security." White House Chief of Staff John Kelly says that this was deter others from coming to the United States. Attorney General Jeff Sessions used the Bible to defend these actions. The secretary of Homeland Security says no such policy exists. (She's lying.) Trump admits it's happening, and blames the Democrats. (He's lying too.) Let's be very clear about this: This is happening. And it's cruel. It is unacceptable to rip children away from their parents as punishment. It breaks my heart, and I am sure yours too, to hear of the infant that was pulled from her mother's arms while she was breastfeeding or the thousands of kids that are living in an abandoned Wal-mart and children being held in kennel-like cages. I know it's hard to watch this unfold. It's easy to feel helpless. That's how Trump wants you to feel—helpless, powerless, resigned to the reality of this cruelty. But there is something you can do. [The Daily Kos community is supporting numerous charities that are taking direct action to help the families along the border. I hope you can join me in supporting their work.]( Thank you, Amanda McKay, Daily Kos Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612. Sent via [ActionNetwork.org](. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Daily Kos, please [click here](.