“At a Border Patrol holding facility in El Paso, Texas, an agent told a Honduran family that one parent would be sent to Mexico while the other parent and their three children could stay in the United States, according to the family. The agent turned to the couple’s youngest daughter — 3-year-old Sofia, whom they call Sofi — and asked her to make a choice.”
“I feel like I’m living in a wonderful dream now and I don’t want anyone to wake me up,” said Hakmi, 26, who last week packed up his life as a refugee and landed in Kitchener as the first skilled immigrant admitted to Canada through Talent Beyond Boundaries, a Washington-based NGO that matches refugees with employers desperate to fill skill shortages.
How the Miles4Migrants Team Uses Donated Frequent Flyer Miles to Reunite Displaced Families Around the World
“We were separated on May 16, 2018, while crossing to the U.S. My son had just turned 6, and they told me that they were going to separate us because they were applying a zero tolerance immigration policy,” Jorge said. “I was sent back [to Honduras], and they kept our son detained for five months.”
Miles4Migrants Co-Founder Andy Freedman speaks with TYT’s Cenk Uygur about the history and impact of Miles4Migrants.
“As the plight of migrants around the world — from those ripped apart by the conflict in Syria to the children separated from their parents by the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance approach on border crossings — has occupied the news, more and more nonprofits have resorted to accepting points and miles as donations, using well-wishers’ loyalty programs to reunite those who haven’t seen their loved ones in years. Among them is Miles4Migrants…”
Miles4Migrants was featured in NonProfit Quarterly
Miles4Migrants was started in 2016, but received millions of extra donated miles after a tweet by a law professor in Michigan went viral.
After Wilensky’s tweet, Miles4Migrants received almost 7 million miles.
“I am looking at my family right now and it is like I am in a dream, but it is real, I can’t believe it,” one of the families previously reunited by Miles4Migrants, shared this moment.
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