Their breaths drag between each sob like they can’t get enough air. They manage just two words, over and over: “Papá” and “Mami.”
Their breaths drag between each sob like they can’t get enough air. They manage just two words, over and over: “Papá” and “Mami.”
We’re glad that the public’s fury has finally moved President Trump to back down from his morally repugnant, indefensible policy of separating children from their families and imprisoning them in cages.
Today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen insisted that children are not being separated from their parents when they present themselves at designated points of entry as they seek asylum. This is not the case.
Ronnie Stewart retired from his job as a medical assistant after his arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure made it too difficult for him to stay on his feet all day.
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are holding children hostage in order to force political concessions on immigration legislation.
It’s been three years since Dylann Roof massacred nine black parishioners in a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina.
The SPLC argued in federal court today that Alabama’s mistreatment of prisoners with mental illness has led to a dramatic increase in suicides.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made a cruel and heartless decision to order immigration authorities to stop granting asylum to most victims of domestic abuse and gang violence in their home countries.
We’ve seen the monuments to Jefferson Davis. We’ve seen the ones to Robert E. Lee. But why is there a monument to a Confederate captain executed for war crimes?
The following statement was delivered by Michelle Lapointe, acting deputy legal director for the SPLC’s Immigrant Justice Project, during a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C., on June 7, 2018.
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