Like any other decent human I’ve been horrified at the atrocity of Trump and the Republicans separating children from their parents. The immediate crisis seems to be over but there’s still an immense need for legal aid for immigrants. To try to unite the snatched kids back with their parents, to help asylum seekers in need. Every person deserves legal representation.

I went looking for well organized legal aid charities in California that I could donate to. I asked on Reddit and Metafilter and found a few helpful lists of organizations: San Francisco Magazine, Slate, Immigration Advocates Network.

I ended up having a hard time picking California specific organizations because there are so many small groups and I don’t know how to evaluate them all. Here’s what I ended up donating to:

• Kids in Need of Defense (Charity Navigator)
  National: “Ensuring that no child appears in immigration court without high quality legal representation.”
• Centro Legal de la Raza (Charity Navigator)
  Bay Area: “promotes access to justice for thousands of individuals and families each year throughout Northern and Central California”
• RAICES (Charity Navigator)
  Texas: “free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees”. They’ve gotten a huge amount of attention and it looks like they can put all this money to good use.