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In Doral, Children Are Coming Home From School to Find a Parent Gone.
Recent immigration sweeps in Doral, Florida, are devastating the community. Families are being torn apart in minutes as primary providers and even those with pending asylum cases are suddenly detained. Families who did everything they were told to do have watched the person who paid the rent, bought the groceries and picked up the kids disappear into a detention center in a matter of minutes.
Administered by LULAC, the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the country.
The legal fight will take months.
The rent is due in two weeks.
A letter from Carlos Eduardo Espina
My name is Carlos Eduardo Espina. I am the son of immigrants and a U.S. citizen. Over the past several years I have traveled across this country, from big cities to small towns, and met thousands of immigrants and their families. I have sat at their kitchen tables, visited their workplaces and their churches, and listened to their stories. I know how hard it can be, and I know how fast a life built over many years can come apart in a single afternoon.
I can tell people their rights. I can tell them what happens next. What I could not do, until now, was help them keep the lights on.
So I am partnering with the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the country, to create the Doral Family Emergency Fund. LULAC will administer the fund, review every application and get money into the hands of families quickly and responsibly.
Please give what you can, and share this with someone who can give more.
Con cariño y gratitud,
Carlos Eduardo Espina
What Your Donation Does
Every dollar goes to direct emergency aid for families in the Doral area who have lost a parent, a head of household or a primary wage earner to immigration enforcement. The money pays for the things that cannot wait:
Rent and Utilities
So no family is evicted while a case is pending.
Child Care
So the remaining parent can keep working.
Essentials
Diapers, formula, medication and school supplies.
How It Works
Families apply directly through LULAC and show that a member of their household has been detained or deported and that the household is facing hardship as a result. Each application is reviewed, and aid is paid out on an emergency basis.
Apply
Complete the application with your household details and what happened to your family member. Upload documents if you have them.
Review
LULAC reviews every application within 5 days. Staff will email you if anything else is needed.
Aid Paid Out
Approved grants are paid on an emergency basis for essential needs, up to $1,000 per household.
What the Fund Does Not Cover
Funds are not for legal representation or to pay a bond. Funding is limited to $1,000 and only for essential needs.
Why This Matters
These are our neighbors. They are the people who serve your coffee, build your homes, care for your parents and sit next to your kids in class. Many of them fled dictatorship and collapse in Venezuela and elsewhere, followed the legal process here, and were pulled from their lives anyway. When we let their children go hungry, we become the country they were running from.
You cannot stop a deportation with a donation. But you can make sure a seven-year-old in Doral eats dinner tonight, sleeps in her own bed this month and has a mother who can go to work tomorrow. That is not a small thing. For these families, right now, it is everything.
Give what you can
About the Organizers
Carlos Eduardo Espina
Carlos Eduardo Espina is the son of immigrants and the most followed Latino creator in the United States, with more than 20 million followers across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. A U.S. citizen raised in Texas, he has built his platform on a single idea: that immigrants deserve accurate information and a fighting chance. He serves as Ambassador of the 2026 Latino Civic Engagement Coalition.
LULAC
LULAC, the League of United Latin American Citizens, was founded in 1929 and is the oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization in the United States, with nearly 900,000 members and more than 350 councils nationwide. LULAC will administer the Doral Family Emergency Fund, review every application and report back to donors on how the money is used.
Venezuelan American Caucus
The Venezuelan American Caucus has built its work in the narrow space between fear and safety, refusing to let anyone cross it alone. VAC has fought for Temporary Protected Status and other immigration protections in courtrooms and in the halls of Congress, turning dense legal language into something families could actually hold onto. The organization helped win TPS, humanitarian parole, and a range of other protections for Venezuelans and immigrants at large, always working shoulder to shoulder with allied organizations. That fight isn't finished. VAC was never built as a campaign with an end date. It was founded on the promise that no Venezuelan, no immigrant, would ever face this alone, a promise that hasn't moved an inch. Through testimonies, lawsuits, town halls, and long nights, VAC has built something far bigger than any single effort, because for this organization, its mission and its fight have never been two separate things. They are, and have always been, the same fight.