Action Alert for the Families of the Largest Immigration Raid in U.S. history!

The following action alert sent by Marie Thompson:

****ACTION ALERT****

Please Help Families Devastated by the immigration Raid in Mississippi

- Earlier this week the largest Immigration and Custom Enforcement (I.C.E.) Raid happen in Mississippi. To day about 600 people have been detained in this raid at Howard Industries, and over 500 people remain in custody in places as far from home as Jena, LA. (a federal detention center)

- Hundreds of school age children in these communities are without their parent or parents and without the resources necessary to meet the basic needs in these new school year.

- Several Hundred more smaller children and their mothers are left with out the wage earner and no way of knowing where to turn for help.

- With a possible hurricane hitting land next week, it is critical that we get resources and donations necessary to families in need NOW!

Families are in desperate need of your help, today.

PLEASE SEND THE FOLLOWING ITEMS OR MONETARY DONATIONS TO:

Sacred Heart Catholic Church
Father Ken Ramon-Landry
313 Walnut
Hattiesburg, MS. 39401

601-583-9404 (we are asking folks not to call but send help, as we here on the ground are a bit overwhelmed)

List of items needed NOW:
- Diapers from size 1 to size 5, size 3 & 4 are the most requested.
- Non-Perishable food items for the Hispanic food palette
- Paper products
- Over the counter basic medicine; Tylenol for both children & adults, etc.
- Monetary donations to cover rent, utilities, food and health expenses
- Phone cards to call international : Mexico, Panama, Honduras, the Caribbean Island nations, south America.
- Gas cards

Other community needs:
(these needs need to be coordinated with the churches)
- Volunteers to help in the coming weeks
- Medical & Mental Health folks
- Translators
- Transportation needs
- Money to pay legal fees
- Money to help those families with American children get passports
- Money to sustain those families while they wait for passports
- etc.

We as a community are all ready meeting to strategist later term needs. These are the needs today. PLEASE help, as we prepare for Disaster 2, the Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico.

Please know that any and all Donations will be greatly appreciated.
I want to add my personal Thanks to each and everyone of you in advance.

Carinos Y un Abrazo,
Marie Thompson