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Jimena Valencia Madrid, the 6-year-old heard screaming in audio ProPublica obtained from a detention facility, is now being held in Phoenix, while her mother is detained in Port Isabel, TX. https://t.co/blH2SGfYwB pic.twitter.com/85djOn2UCx — ProPublica (@ProPublica) June 22, 2018 Thank you @ProPublica  https://soundcloud.com/propublica/audio-crying-children-inside-a-us-customs-and-border-protection-facility Full story here: https://propub.li/2MOtwq0 

by Gregg Chadwick This week in New York, Bruce Springsteen added a powerful call to action to his Broadway show: We are seeing things right now on our American borders that are so shockingly and disgracefully inhumane and un-American that it is simply enraging. And we have heard people in high position in the American government blaspheme in the name of God and country that it is a moral thing to assault the children amongst us. May God save our souls.     Bruce Springsteen On Broadway Calls the Nation to Attention Over Trump's Inhumane Border Snatching (full audio below) I never believed that people come to my shows, or rock shows to be told anything. But I do believe that they come to be reminded of things. To be reminded of who they are, at their most joyous, at their deepest, when life feels full. It's a good place to get in touch with your heart and your spirit, to be amongst the crowd. And to be reminded of who we are and who we can be c...

by Gregg Chadwick Gregg Chadwick Family Values (Chinga la Migra) 24"x36" oil on linen 2018 Our protests against Trump's horrific Migrant Family Separation Policy are working. As Rolling Stone reports," The chaos that preceded the order's signing is further proof that nearly every move the administration makes is improvised, and that there has never been any real plan for how to deal with immigration other than projecting strength to tide over his base while the White House tries to figure out how to deliver the long-promised border wall. To Trump, signing the order is an act of weakness, and his claim that he's doing it because of how "important" it is to keep families together is as big of a lie as any of the many he's offered up since taking office." The order itself was put together so quickly that when it was first posted online, its title was misspelled. But we must keep up the pressure. As outlined below, the Executiv...

Published on Jun 18, 2018 ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.” Category News & Politics License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed) A two-year-old Honduran asylum seeker cries as her mother is searched and detained near the U.S.-Mexico border on June 12, 2018 in Mcallen, Texas.  John Moore/GETTY IMAGES JUST ANNOUNCED: Major protest to Keep Families Together on June 30th in Washington *and* communities around the country . Go to http:// familiesbelongtogether.org   to plug into events. All hands on deck NOW to end this brutality and move towards freedom for all: kids AND their families. How to Fight Back – Pressure Congress Call, email, tweet Congress.  Your two Senators and one Representative are in the best position to force the administration to abandon this new polic...