Rapper 21 Savage donates $25K to the nonprofit legal advocacy organization that helped him when he was arrested by ICE
Rapper 21 Savage donated $25,000 to a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that helped him when he wasThe donation to the Southern Poverty Law Center will help immigrants being held in detention centers in the Deep South obtain legal counsel, the rapper's attorney Charles Kuck said in a press release.detained on Feb.
Charles Kuck, Willemijn Keizer , Daniel Werner hold a check from 21 Savage for a $25,000 donation to SPLC following his ICE detainment earlier this year during which several powerful, national organizations came together to fight the injustice by forming a coalition to seek his release.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based nonprofit that specializes in immigration detention and civil rights, assisted the Grammy-nominated artist by transferring documents, obtaining necessary signatures and"forming a coalition" with other national organizations to fight for the rapper's release, according to Kuck.
Willemijn Keizer, the organization's Director of Institutional Giving, said the rapper's donation will provide"vital resources" for detained immigrants. "Only one in six immigrants detained in the Southeast has access to an attorney in removal proceedings. For an immigrant in detention, that legal representation can mean the difference between winning or losing their case — between staying with their family or being forced to return to a place that is no longer home," he said in a statement.from a Georgia detention center on Feb, 12, more than a week after his arrest.
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