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Imagining a Safe Haven for Our Children
Arrive on the scene. Shoot. Bang. Dead child. Gone forever. Mother crying. Blood pressure, spiked. Doom, imminent. Siblings, distraught. Funeral. This predictable chain of events is what seems to happen when police officers arrive on the scene. Calling the police...
A Shining 'City On a Hill' Must Treat Immigrants Humanely
By signing an executive order ending forced separation of immigrant families, President Donald Trump has admitted that this cruel practice was his administration’s policy and that he could have stopped it at any time. Despite having the power to stop taking children...
How I Met Detained Minors on My Flight to McAllen
I first saw them sitting as a group in Terminal B at Dallas International Airport. Clean-cut young teens in matching sweatsuits - must be a volleyball team from a private middle school, I thought. They looked weary, but so was I - we'd just found out that our American...
New Report Reveals Which States Are Abandoning Public Schools
Having a democratically governed local school, accessible to all students and fully accountable to the public for how its spends taxpayer money, has been a given for most American families since segregated schools were outlawed, but a new report finds most states have...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Ends Family Separations, Still Criminalizes Migrants What's really in Trump’s plan to stop family separations. WaPo: "A new executive order signed by President Trump lays out steps to end the separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. We see...
How We Can Transform Our Communities Now
“What qualifies you to run for office?” That’s a question I get a lot as I meet voters in my campaign for Montgomery County Council’s at-large seat. To me, it hits at the heart of why I’m running. I’m a working class, Black Latina living in a multi-racial,...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Says Immigrants 'Infest" U.S. Trump ramps up rhetoric: Dems want 'illegal immigrants' to 'infest our country'. CNN: "President Donald Trump amplified his heated immigration rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing Democrats of wanting migrants to 'infest our country' and...
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Digs In On Separatng Families Why Trump is digging in on separating families at the border. CNN: "Logic suggests that the White House, under crushing political pressure, would be forced to back down on its hardline immigration policy amid outrage over searing...
Children Say NO! to Family Separations by ICE
Every child understands the pain losing one’s loved ones – even for a moment – can cause. So children have plenty to say about the U.S. government’s separation of thousands of migrant families, with no promise to parents or children they’ll ever see each other again....
Progressive Breakfast
Father's Day Vigil At McAllen Detention Center Groups demand Trump administration end separation of families during McAllen vigil. KCBS: "Families from across the Rio Grande Valley made their voices heard during a vigil in McAllen on Sunday afternoon. Several groups...
