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A School Near Yuma Requires Parents to Present an Arizona Driver’s License to Enroll Their Child. That’s Unlawful.
By making a state-issued ID an absolute requirement to enroll a student, San Luis High School is effectively shutting its doors to the most vulnerable student populations.
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"A los dos días me llevaron mi niña, me la quitaron."
On the morning of June 18, when I heard the cries of children wailing and pleading to see their mothers and fathers, my heart was filled with anger and sadness. I couldn’t understand how our nation, in the name of “security,” was subjecting innocent migrant children to severe trauma.
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SB 1070 in 2018: What are our rights?
Due to a broad misunderstanding of Arizona’s flagrantly anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, David Green’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was unconstitutionally held so an officer could conduct an immigration check.
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No, Secretary DeVos. Schools should not report children to ICE.
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said it’s up to local schools whether they report undocumented students to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). She’s wrong, again.
By Darrell Hill
The Border Patrol Was Monstrous Under Obama. Imagine How Bad It Is Under Trump.
On a December morning, Border Patrol agents confronted a 15-year-old high school student named Jahveel Ocampo at a rest stop in California while she and her friends were on their way to the mountains to see the winter’s first snow. Jahveel was a young child when she came to the United States from Mexico with her parents, and she grew up undocumented in southern California. She was a mother to a 2-year-old child, who was a U.S. citizen.
By Mitra Ebadolahi
Iraqi Nationals Deserve Better From The Trump Administration
Staff Attorney Billy Peard explains why the U.S. should not be separating people from their families and sending them into dangerous territories.
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