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Thank you to everyone who has offered their support as we work to provide emergency services to families who have been reunified at the Otero County Detention Center, New Mexico. Within 24 hours of being contacted by Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)​, our refugee office in Albuquerque along with members …

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Together we proclaim and embody God’s unconditional love for the sake of the world Christ’s Church, Better Together Message from Bishop Gonia The court-ordered reunification of immigrant families has created an opportunity for action on the part of people of faith and good-will in Albuquerque. At the request of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, one …

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On Friday, July 20th, we were asked by Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) to provide emergency services to 300 immigrant families in Albuquerque, NM who were separated under the short-lived family separation policy. Overnight we organized the team in our Albuquerque office and sent additional help from our Denver office so we could begin receiving families today. …

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Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains (LFS) has served children through trauma-informed foster care, adoption, assessment, counseling, and prevention services for over 70 years. Since 2007, we have been the only organization authorized to provide care to Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URM) in Colorado. URMs are overseas children under the age of 18 who have been granted …

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By Gary Barg, Editor-in-Chief caregiver.com 1. Keep a journal. Start today. Describe your fears as well as your hopes, the reality of what each day is like. Do not be afraid to write about the losses, big or small. 2. Stick with your journal. Let yourself record the little victories, go back and review the earlier months …

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