A GoFundMe campaign launched last month to pay for President Trump’s border wall raised over $20 million from more than 300,000 donors. But that wasn’t nearly enough.
Brian Kolfage assured donors Friday that because the campaign didn’t reach it…
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Kids are being torn away from their parents. This Twitter thread provides vital context.
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Facts can only do so much.
The Trump administration-authored policy of separating migrant children from their parents has sparked outrage all across the United States. As horrible as the basic facts are to most rational sensibilities, they’re easy to distort on paper — as one Gizmodo reporter’s Twitter thread makes clear.
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In recent days, news media organizations have gotten the chance to step inside a number of the detention centers that have been established for housing these kids. And for every chill-inducing thread that details their daily reality, there are tweets like this one that work to hand-wave away any concerns. Read more…
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Growing up in the small town of Bradenton, Florida, Miriam Álvarez had a pretty typical American childhood. She took the pledge of allegiance every morning in elementary school and cheered the U.S. team during Olympic spirit week in high school. Her younger brother enrolled in the Army, and is now serving in South Korea.
But when Álvarez was 14, her parents sat her down in the living room and told her a secret they’d been keeping her whole life: Álvarez, her sister, and her parents were undocumented. Her mother had brought Álvarez from Mexico to the U.S. when she was just nine months old.
“It was a shock because you felt lied to,” says the shy 22-year-old, who laughs nervously when talking about her past. “Telling me that I’m not American, or not even Mexican American. So really, what am I?” Read more…
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