The year Donald Trump was carried into office on a frothing anti-immigrant platform, there were an estimated 10.5 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Roughly two-thirds had been here for more than a decade. Prior administrations had abysmal records, but generally acknowledged that the U.S. was enriched by …
Read More »US Flag Replaced With Mexican Flag During Protest at ICE Detention Facility
At an ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colo., on Friday protesters removed an American flag and replaced it with a Mexican flag. In addition to the flag swap, which was cheered by those gathered, protesters vandalized a Blue Lives Matter flag, writing “Abolish ICE” on it with spray paint and …
Read More »Trump Dismisses 'Torture' of Migrant Children at Border
The conditions at Border Patrol facilities holding migrant children are far worse than anyone realized. Reports have emerged in the past week that detail dirty, hungry children who are often forced to sleep on concrete floors. Infants are being cared for by children only a few years their elder. Diapers …
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