Last week, horrifying allegations began appearing on the internet and social media, allegations that a doctor at an ICE detention facility in
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My husband Daniel and I were born in the same year to Cuban parents. But the stories of our childhoods are very different. My parents were upper-middle class from Havana and able to flee the country early when war fractured
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Part 2 of 2. Read the first article in this series here. As a Border Patrol agent in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, I witnessed the San Diego Critical Incident Investigative Team
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There is a little-known saying within law enforcement circles: If you are looking to commit rape, sexual assault on minors, or murder, and you want to be a cop, join the U.S.
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This week, I watched with incredulity as the perpetrator of war crimes (as defined by the Geneva Convention) revisited the scene of some of his cruelest acts: the border wall. Trump returned
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As we all slowly go back out into the real world and engage with our fellow humans, one of the things I’ve vowed to try and do more is be more present
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Those of us who focus on immigration are pleased with some of the positive trends we’ve seen recently from the Biden administration response, not just cleaning up the previous administration’s immigration cruelty
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On average, 45,000 people were forcibly held in ICE detention every day in 2019. Almost 2,000 children were stolen from their parents between April and May 2018. LGBTQ immigrants are 15 times
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Unaccompanied minors, mostly adolescents, keep arriving at the southern border as news spreads among the desperate and “tempest-tossed” in Central America that the United States will not abandon or refuse children. Their
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Every immigrant comes to America with one thing in common: courage. The courage it takes to sacrifice and make this journey — to a nation that is more than a place, but
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Words like “crisis” and “surge” make for great headlines, especially when talking about immigration at the U.S. border and searching for something scandalous to pin on a new presidential administration. But if
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The Biden Immigration Bill is not the law yet, but here are some highlights from the 66-page summary. Lawful Prospective Immigrant (LPI) Status The bill will create a new “lawful prospective immigrant”
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