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People who would do this to children would do anything to anyone. Before this is over, they will be called to do worse.

Well before the 2016 presidential election cycle, these men saw immigration politics as the key to mobilizing a predominantly white electorate around questions of race, status and safety, concerns of cultural degeneration...

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Demonstrators in Los Angeles were joined by activists in dozens of other cities across the country on Thursday evening to protest the separation of migrant families under President Trump’s zero-tolerance crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly said that kids would be placed in foster care “or whatever,” and explained that seizing children was intended as a “tough deterrent” against those trying to cross the border without papers.

Planned directive to immigration judges marks dramatic shift likely to affect tens of thousands of migrants