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Activist Elsa Marie Collins Believes Immigration Reform Is About Humans, Not Politics

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonApril 19, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonApril 19, 202204527

First-generation Mexican American activist Elsa Marie Collins straddled the border most of her childhood. Born in San Diego and raised in Tijuana in the 80s and 90s, she remembers an entirely different experience than the one many children and families...

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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, 202105611

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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These Drawings By Undocumented Children Will Break Your Heart

Araceli CruzNovember 4, 2019July 13, 2020

by Araceli CruzNovember 4, 2019July 13, 202003177

In 2018, under the Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy, thousands of children were separated from their families at the border but the effects from those separations are still felt today one way or another. Dr. Belinda Arriaga, an associate professor...

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Reports Show Separated Children at the Border Have PTSD and Severe Trauma

Araceli CruzSeptember 5, 2019July 27, 2020

by Araceli CruzSeptember 5, 2019July 27, 202001426

An investigation on the treatment of migrant children separated at the border concluded they have experienced severe trauma and show symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The results are what many suspected would happen after the government began separating children...

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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, 202001158

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

HipLatinaDecember 14, 2018August 20, 2020

by HipLatinaDecember 14, 2018August 20, 202002906

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...

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ICE Had Families At The Border Sign Documents They Couldn’t Read

Johanna FerreiraAugust 23, 2018September 16, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraAugust 23, 2018September 16, 20200988

The stories revolving around the families separated at the border have been devastating and things haven’t exactly improved. Last week we learned about how ICE arrested a husband who was on his way to take his pregnant wife to the...

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Mom Is Finally Reunited With Daughter, 55 Days After Being Separated at the Border

Araceli CruzJuly 6, 2018September 21, 2020

by Araceli CruzJuly 6, 2018September 21, 202011262

Now that the Trump Administration has been forced to reunite families that have been separated at the border, we’re finally seeing heartbreaking videos of families seeing their children for the very first time. Angelica Gonzalez-Garcia, a 31-year-old mother from Guatemala,...

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal Arrested With Other Women For Protesting ICE

Johanna FerreiraJune 29, 2018October 1, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraJune 29, 2018October 1, 202001108

More than 2,000 women gathered at the Women’s March on Thursday in Washington D.C. to protest the Trump administration’s family-separation of immigrant families at the border and zero-tolerance policy. Close to 600 women were arrested for “mass civil disobedience.” Among...