Here’s how you can help the children separated from their families at the border by the Trump administration
“The system is set up to dehumanize folks,” Pérez points out. “That is why people are given, where your alien [registration number] is your identification when you are in the system. For us it is really important you put names and stories to those A-numbers, or else people would just be ground up in the machine.
Part of our humanity is that we need to make sure we are preventing that, and making sure we are telling the stories of people so that we can fight for them.”Your ballot may not include any measures that explicitly refer to the border crisis, but the people you put in office can impact legislation and future mobilization. Check your
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