Tag Archives: Children

God help the refugees. God help us all.

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Mary Turck

Kenya announced last week that it will close all of its refugee camps, forcing more than 600,000 refugees to return to the violence they fled in their home countries of Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and other nearby countries. That’s terrible, but … Continue reading →

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Let’s jail the children and call it child care

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Mary Turck

Texas, leading the nation as always, granted a child care license to a jail on April 29. It’s a special, private jail, an immigration detention center in Karnes City run by the private, for-profit GEO Group. The Texas license comes … Continue reading →

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Immigration agents should not be above the law

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Mary Turck

No warrants, no consent, no lawyers — that’s the story told by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s first-person report on raids targeting Central American mothers and children in January. Here’s part of Ana Silvia’s story:

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