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After hearing the news of the impending closure of the immigrant detention center, the families of a dozen detainees and their supporters held a rally outside. But advocates want detainees freed, not sent to for-profit jails.
Those seeking asylum today inherited a series of crises that drove them to the border.
"This is flirting with fascism in the open, in broad daylight now." –Sanho Tree (Institute for Policy Studies) on Trump's demonization of immigrants.
Donald Trump and his administration are cruelly separating children from their families. But we won't allow it to continue. June 30 we're rallying in Washington DC and around the country to tell Donald Trump stop separating kids from their parents.
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No protocols have been put in place for keeping track of parents and children concurrently, for keeping parents and children in contact with each other while they are separated, or eventually reuniting them. Two thousand children taken from parents.
Reports of the forcible separation of parents and children at the border by U.S. immigration authorities tell only part of the story of the violence now being directed against hard-won norms of civil society.
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