We are all migrants. We all come from somewhere.

Migration is as old as our species. The need to migrate transcends political boundaries, which reflect only the aftermath of the last invasion. It transcends war and other conflicts. And it transcends borders that do not reflect the intricate web of life, families, communities, and human populations.

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President Trump’s Family Separation Policy

On October 5, 2020 investigative reporter Tim Steller for the Arizona Daily Star uncovered the Trump administration’s cover-up used to initiate, implement, allegedly cancel, and then continue separating children from their parents even while under court order to find and unite them.

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The Real Costs of Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall

During the presidential campaign, “Build the Wall,” was a repeated refrain that got applause from Trump’s supporters. Trump mobilized his base with falsehoods about our southwestern borderlands being a lawless region even though FBI and local law enforcement statistics clearly showed that we have less violent crime than most America’s...

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