If you travel frequently and have a stash of miles you haven’t used yet, consider donating them to an organization that can use them to reunite families separated at the U.S.-Mexican border.
Beth Wilensky, a professor at University of Michigan’s law school, tweeted the idea last night, and is encouraging people to get in touch with organizations like Michigan Support Circle and Miles4Migrants.
Michigan Support Circle says it uses the miles to either bring parents to their children, or to unite parent and child with other relatives. You can register your miles here. The organization is requesting money to help pay for school supplies for children whose parents have been detained by ICE.
After Wilensky tweeted about the organization, Andy Freedman, a representative for Miles4Migrants, wrote in an email that the organization has received 2.8 million miles and counting in the past 24 hours. “[We] have big plans for use of these miles...both to support separated immigrant families, and continue our global family reunification work with refugees around the world,” Freedman wrote.
It won’t stop the separations from happening in the first place, but it is an easy way for us all to help these families in need.
H/t Beth Wilensky