From across the country, leaders and editorial boards are denouncing the Trump Administration’s cruel and inhumane policies that are separating families, condemning vulnerable women and children to violence, and turning our backs on who we are as a nation: Cardinal Daniel DeNardo, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
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Here is a roundup of some of the most recent stories and commentary: RAICES Texas, a local service provider with a first-hand look at the human consequences of policy decisions, tweeted a horrifying thread last night that encapsulates what is happening in our names: Today’s story to #EndFamilySeparation …...
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Recent reports highlight the abject cruelty and widespread consequences of the Trump administration’s policy of separating parents and children at the border. In a Boston Globe story titled, “Down on the Border, There’s a New Trail of Tears,” Liz Goodwin writes: US Border Patrol agents separated Wil from his...
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Despite Congressional Reporting Requirements, Trump Administration Hides Suicide of Distraught Dad Separated Under Family Separation Policy One month after the incident, the Washington Post reported on the suicide of a Honduran man, Marco Antonio Muñoz, separated from his three-year-old son and wife by the Border Patrol under Trump’s family separation policy: ...
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Tragedy Strikes and Outrage Mounts Over the Trump Administration’s Cruelty Over the weekend, Nick Miroff of the Washington Post reported on the devastating story of Marco Antonio Muñoz, a Honduran father who was evidently so distraught about being separated from his wife and child as a result of the...
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Federal Judge in Decision and Syndicated WaPo Columnist Blast Trump Administration’s Family Separation Policy Observers are criticizing as cruel and inhumane the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from parents in order to sow fear and deter migrants and asylum seekers. Yesterday, a U.S. District Judge in San Diego,...
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In the wake of Trump’s workplace deportation raid in Sandusky, Ohio, nationally syndicated columnist Connie Schultz details the widespread community panic and the ripple effects of the raids: innocent children left without parents or caregivers. Schultz concludes, “This is what we do now in America. Our government singles out...
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NBC News reports that, as a result of Trump’s new family separation policy, hundreds of children are being held at border stations in unsuitable conditions, especially for children, and beyond the time period allowed under the law. In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen...
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More and more pediatricians are raising alarm bells regarding the serious and irreparable harm that the Trump family separation policy is having on children. From the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), pediatricians who serve on the American Academy of Pediatrics Immigrant Health Special Interest Group to...
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A US Senator is denied access to inspect the well-being of children: contractor calls police on him As President Trump openly claims that he is above the law, below is a roundup have of recent episodes that how his administration is advancing an immigration enforcement agenda that is unaccountable,...
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