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Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy detained by Customs and Border Protection, died in custody in the early hours of Christmas Day — the second child to die in government custody this month.
One of the most important things we did in 2018 was work to reunite migrant parents with their children, work we'll keep doing in 2019.

Felipe was with his father when he died, but clearly he did not get the care he needed. washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
The Trump administration’s treatment of immigrant families is cruel, reckless, and part of a disturbing pattern of malice toward immigrants. It has to stop. #NoHumanIsIllegal #NoBanNoWallNoRaids #SPLCWinterReadingList splcenter.org/news/2018/06/2…
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“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” Rep. Steve King said last week.

To be clear, white supremacy and white nationalism have always been “offensive.” nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/…
This was far from King's first time signaling support for white nationalism. He made white nationalist comments on CNN less than a year ago; praised an anti-Muslim figure convicted of hate speech; retweeted a neo-Nazi; and called Mexican immigrants “dirt.” cdn.americanprogress.org/content/upload…
Rep. King’s tenure in office has been marked by racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, bigoted words and deeds. But he’s not the only one. Just 24 hours before King was kicked off his committees, Trump put out a blatantly racist tweet about Native Americans. splcenter.org/hate-white-hou…
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We’re here at the @Ctr4CHR joining the @NAACPGA, @NAACPAtlanta, @NationalSCLC and several other orgs ahead of the Georgia General Assembly calling for necessary, long overdue change—that begins with the takedown of Confederate monuments throughout the South.
There are 159 counties in Georgia. Ninety-two of them have Confederate monuments.
“This is a momentous occasion, but this is just the beginning.

“We cannot have a united country until we remove the symbols that divided this country.” —First Vice President of @NAACPAtlanta Gerald Griggs
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President Trump spoke tonight about "illegal aliens," but no human is illegal. #NoBanNoWall splcenter.org/news/2018/12/1…
It’s a myth that immigrants commit crimes at higher rates than native born Americans. It’s a myth that they hurt the economy. For the president to spread these fears tonight is not only inaccurate, but immoral. tolerance.org/magazine/sprin…
There is a humanitarian crisis at the border — one that this president’s relentless war on asylum seekers and his refusal to comply with the law have manufactured. #PresidentialAddress splcenter.org/news/2019/01/0…
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An eight year-old Guatemalan national, previously apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, died shortly before midnight on December 24 at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico. CBP released an initial statement, which can be found here.
Consistent with CBP’s commitment to accountability and transparency, CBP is releasing a timeline reflecting a current understanding of key events that occurred prior to the child’s passing. These updates are based on initial operational reporting.
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Yet another child has died in @CBP custody. This one was a boy, 8 years old and like Jakelin Caal, from Guatemala. He was diagnosed with a cold on Monday. Then it was a fever. Then he started vomiting. By the early hours of Christmas Day, the boy was dead. wapo.st/2ERef72
Jakelin Caal’s body arrived in Guatemala last Sunday. A pediatrician wrote about her death, arguing that it was “not the random outcome of accidental events, but the product of a system that never valued her health to begin with.” trib.al/0G8dy3D
“She, and the thousands of children like her crossing into the US each month, never had the option of a carefree childhood. The journey offered her that chance. It may also be what killed her.” @DLind had a truly sober perspective on Jakelin Caal’s death. vox.com/2018/12/18/181…
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On #ChristmasEve We must not forget the True Meaning of #Christmas

Retweet this Thread to help Spread Love & Joy to those in need & to my Brothers & sisters in ALL Military services away from Family this Holiday🎄

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1/ A 12-year-old Guatemalan boy named Erik went home this week after four months inside an Illinois shelter for immigrant children. We wrote about him and other kids separated from their parents. Here’s what happened when he was reunited with his family. propublica.org/article/trump-…
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Former U.S. Border Patrol Supervisor Pleads Guilty, Admits to Violating Civil Rights of Legal Border Crosser

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1. On one side are Trump’s supporters telling every imaginable lie abt what’s happening on the border. On the other are those armed w/ furious rebukes & facts: the gov't is kidnapping children (a fair term) from parents seeking asylum w/ the purpose of deterring border crossings.
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