Sep 8, 2016
On an early morning in late January of this year, a young man named Pedro Salmeron was riding in the passenger seat of his father’s truck in Charlotte, NC when ICE agents stopped the truck and detained Pedro. His crime: fleeing gang members in El Salvador that had just...
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Donald’s Trump’s “Second Amendment people” comment on Tuesday in Wilmington, North Carolina has the nation grappling to understand what he meant. Speaker Paul Ryan suggested this was a “joke gone bad.” As someone who attended Trump’s later rally that day in Fayetteville, I can tell you this is no...
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July 4 was a day the United States celebrated its independence from British rule, but also, in the case of North Carolina, from a toxic anti-immigrant bill called HB 100. The legislation, which steamrolled through the State Senate, ultimately died in the House Rules Committee on Saturday after meeting...
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