Category: Immigration
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Joy of Learning
When I was young, learning new things was difficult, which led to my parents often losing patience with me. Perhaps I had trouble learning because I was nearsighted, which was not discovered until I was ten years old and fitted with thick glasses. Maybe it was because I was a kinesthetic learner and needed first…
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Haitian Migrants in Tijuana Shot, Beaten, Attacked with Machetes – Call for U.S. to Help
On the night of June 28 in a makeshift migrant camp on the U.S. border with Tijuana, approximately 1:00 am, a group of Haitian men, women and children migrants were attacked in their tents with gunfire, rocks and machetes. They were told to evacuate and leave the area. But because of U.S. rules stopping asylum…
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My Dreams, My Reality: A Photographic Series
In almost all cases, refugees are shown in desperate conditions in photographs by news agencies. An anonymous photographer decided to show his friends (who are trapped with him in Mexico due to the U.S. government’s constantly changing immigration policy) in a different light. His idea was to change people’s perceptions of immigrants, migrants, and refugees.…
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Living with Self-Quarantine in Mexico
Coronavirus South of the Border In 2015-2016 I drove with my wife, Rebecca, our 13-year old daughter, and 10-year old son in a 1985 VW Westfalia camper van from Alexandria, VA to Panama City, Panama. The drive took us through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. It was a life-changing adventure, and…
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For Some U.S. Veterans who put their lives on the line, Deportation is the Ultimate Injustice
United Deported Veterans is a small non-profit working with Veterans For Peace in order to help veterans who have been deported from the United States. In current law, any felony can be a cause of deportation, and judges do not have the discretion to take into account military service. Hector Lopez who was deported 13…
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Splinter Removal
A splinter festers inside me. I continue to long for the China of my youth, but why, when I know it no longer exists? Why do I weep when reading stories of children who were forced to leave their countries due to civil strife? Nothing stays the same. I know this. Change is inevitable and…
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Pittman Out-debates Schuh
If the cheers/jeers meter was any indication, Steuart Pittman knocked the ball out of the park in the October 18 debate with Steve Schuh at Maryland Hall. Even worse for Schuh, Pittman seemed to maneuver him to total agreement with Pittman’s main point: it isn’t just about having enough money, it is about priorities. The…
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Annapolis Activists to Raise Funds Tomorrow Night for Separated Immigrant Families
When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in April a “zero tolerance” policy for those crossing the border illegally, it resulted in hundreds of children being separated from their parents and, in some cases, making no provision as to how these children would be tracked and reunited with their parents. These horrific events left…
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Three Thousand Children?
Enough talk about when and where they were taken, we need to start talking about charging people with crimes. Fear of going to jail might be the only thing to stop these people. First, we were told only a few children were separated from their parents, then a few hundred, then we were told it…
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The problem isn’t the immigrants – it’s the system
Trump’s statement about illegal immigrants, “They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people,” seems to be more applicable to ICE agents than to illegal immigrants. In the past few years ICE agents have been caught stealing drugs from investigations and breaking international laws against the treatment of asylum…