Your donation will be split between roughly a dozen organizations all at once. If you're not quite sure where to donate, ActBlue has set up a couple of donation portals to help kids at the border and families separated and detained.

There are hundreds of organizations working to help immigrants, many of which are local charities and nonprofits. The White House said Monday it opposed the House legislation, setting up a potential veto situation. The Republican-controlled Senate passed its own $4.6 billion version on Wednesday, so lawmakers now will have to reconcile the two versions before the Congressional recess starts on July 4. The legislation included language that would require the Customs and Border Protection (the agency which runs Border Patrol) to establish health and safety standards for migrant individuals in its care. On Tuesday night, the House passed a $4.5 billion emergency spending bill to provide aid to the southern border. Meanwhile, the government agencies in charge of immigration operations, the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Health and Human Services, say they don't have the funding to properly handle the current influx of migrants. Wayfair employees even staged a walkout Wednesday after they discovered the company sold children's beds and mattresses to a Texas detention camp. In an interview with the Associated Press, lawyers who had visited one facility on the Texas border reported that 'kids were taking care of kids' and there was 'inadequate food, water and sanitation.' At least seven children have died in immigration custody in the past year. And while children should only be in custody for up to three days before being transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services, that process is taking much longer.

Border Patrol reported having about 2,000 unaccompanied minors in its custody at any given time.

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