How to Protect Kids from ICE

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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438. How to Protect Kids from ICE Right now in America, children are standing alone in immigration court—no lawyer, no advocate, no protection—forced to represent themselves against government attorneys from Homeland Security. Glennon joins immigration justice leaders Lillian Aponte Miranda of the Florence Project and Shaina Aber of the Acacia Center for Justice to reveal what’s happening to immigrant families—and how we can meet this moment with care and action to protect children from ICE. To donate to the entire network of legal service providers serving unaccompanied immigrant children or to find an organization near you, visit protectimmigrantkids.org. To volunteer as a Witness for Justice: VOMO To uplift on your social media platforms: #ProtectKids Toolkit - Google Docs The Florence Project provides free legal services, social services, and advocacy to immigrants facing detention and potential deportation. To learn more about the Florence Project's work, visit: www.firrp.org and follow them on social media: Instagram: @The_FlorenceProject Facebook: Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project The Acacia Center for Justice builds, strengthens, and expands immigrant legal defense programs for adults and children across the country. To learn more about the Acacia Center for Justice’s work, visit: https://acaciajustice.org/ and follow them on social media: Instagram: @acaciajustice Facebook: Acacia Center for Justice To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. As always, thank you. Just thank you for doing life with us, for doing this American moment with us. Thank you.
0:19.8	Today we're sharing with you a beautiful and important
0:22.9	conversation I had with two of my personal heroes, Shana Aber from the Acacia Center for Justice
0:28.8	and Lillian Aponte Miranda from the Florence Project. We recorded this together as a virtual
0:34.7	gathering where thousands of us came together to learn how to better care for
0:38.2	each other in this moment. We talked about the relentless cruelty so many immigrant children and families
0:44.1	are facing and how love and justice are the unstoppable river that we can harness together to help
0:49.8	protect each other and our neighbors in this moment. Shana and Lillian will guide us into the work of immigrant justice, how each of us can
0:57.5	get in the boat, take our place, and help move toward collective liberation.
1:02.6	And more importantly, in this moment, how the hell we protect the kids and our neighbors
1:06.6	from ice.
1:08.0	The Acacia Center is preparing to launch Witness for Justice this September, a project we
1:12.6	discussed in this episode. In the show notes, you'll find everything you need to get involved, where to sign up for
1:18.2	the volunteer hub, links to follow the Florence Project in the Acacia Center, and resources to connect
1:24.0	with immigration rights organizations in your own community. If you ever wanted to know
1:28.3	what you would have done during the civil rights movement, it's what you're doing now. Here's a way to
1:35.4	start. I'm Graham Millard. I'm the communications manager here at the Florence Immigrant and
1:40.3	Refugee Rights Project based in Phoenix, Arizona and Tucson, Arizona.
1:45.0	Thank you so much for joining us.
1:47.0	I am going to introduce our wonderful panelists here with us today.
1:52.5	To start, we have Shana Aber.
1:54.9	Shana is the executive director of the Acacia Center for Justice.
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