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Lifetime Film Will Showcase True Story of Mother/Daughter Separated at Border

Virginia IsaadFebruary 17, 2021February 17, 2021

by Virginia IsaadFebruary 17, 2021February 17, 202105986

When the audio of then- 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid begging to call her aunt while in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility it made national news. In the 2018 recording obtained by ProPublica, she can be heard begging...

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Agent Forces 3-Year-Old to Pick Parent in Attempted Family Separation

Virginia IsaadJuly 17, 2019August 2, 2020

by Virginia IsaadJuly 17, 2019August 2, 202001426

A Honduran family in a Border Patrol holding facility in El Paso, Texas was told by an agent that only one parent could stay in the U.S. and the other be sent to Mexico. The agent reportedly asked the youngest...

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Judge Reopens Case, Halts Deportation Order for 11-Year-Old Girl

Virginia IsaadApril 18, 2019August 10, 2020

by Virginia IsaadApril 18, 2019August 10, 202001500

Laura Maradiaga-Alvarado, who immigrated with her family from El Salvador, was given a deportation order in Houston on March 12. She is 11 years old and was the only one of her family to be ordered to deport. The case...

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Yalitza Aparicio Among Time’s Most Influential

Virginia IsaadApril 17, 2019August 10, 2020

by Virginia IsaadApril 17, 2019August 10, 202005498

Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world includes several Latinx. The list, divided into five section including pioneers, titans, artists, leaders, and icons, features almost an equal number of men and women who are...

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Volunteering to Help Families at the Border Changed This Latina’s Life

HipLatinaDecember 14, 2018August 20, 2020

by HipLatinaDecember 14, 2018August 20, 202003371

Day after day, there seem to be more and more news stories of the people seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border only to be turned away. Some as complicated as migrant parents still being separated from children at the border...