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Opening your home to refugees is one powerful way to resist Trump’s immigration policy

sudshr47 June 28, 2018

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Grace Aheron has never met the four transgender women from Honduras and El Salvador currently detained in a federal immigration facility in New Mexico, but she’s waiting to welcome them into her home.

These women arrived in the United States in April after traveling thousands of miles with a migrant caravan from Central America to seek refuge from discrimination and persecution in their native countries. They made their way toward the U.S. without someone to sponsor them — until Aheron, a 27-year-old activist who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, volunteered to be their host.  

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Rachel Maddow breaks down over babies being sent to ‘tender age’ shelters

sudshr47 June 20, 2018

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It’s hard to rattle Rachel Maddow. 

No matter how infuriating the news, she usually stays calm and collected. But news that the Trump administration is forcibly separating babies from their parents and sending them to “tender age” shelters was just too much. 

Rachel Maddow chokes up and cries on air as she struggles to deliver news that migrant babies and toddlers have been sent to “tender age” shelters pic.twitter.com/O6crm8cvyR

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 20, 2018

Maddow attempted to read the update from the Associated Press on her MSNBC show on Tuesday night, but was overcome with emotion. Later, she apologized on Twitter for breaking down. Read more…

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