As outrage continues to mount over President Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policies, protests are planned for all over Virginia. For those who have been living under a proverbial rock and have not been following the news, Trump's newly implemented policy...
Opinion: Locking Children Away in Cages, Is This Making America Great?
I have not known a time the US lost all sense of compassion before today. And now we are living in one of the worst episodes of our recent history. How can anyone look at pictures of young children being torn from their parents, left to live in cages and not feel...
Opinion: New “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Policies are Incompatible with Basic Human Decency
A few weeks ago, I attended a gathering of faith leaders from across the Richmond, Va. region. Speaker after speaker — including a scholar at a conservative think tank and two Republican politicians — blamed social ills like the opioid epidemic on “family breakdown”...
ICE activity in Virginia spikes under Trump
RICHMOND – The Trump administration’s immigration policy has left a cloud hanging over the heads of many undocumented immigrants living in Virginia. While the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency says it is enforcing existing laws, critics say the agents...
F-You ICE – Chesterfield County becomes first VA county to ignore federal immigrant detainee requests
Chesterfield County will no longer honor requests to hold illegal immigrants at the request of the federal ICE unit. Chesterfield County will no longer honor requests to hold illegal immigrants at the request of the federal ICE unit. The Chesterfield Observer reported...
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