This was the incident that spurred me to drive 3 hours one way and sit in front of the Adelanto immigrant detention center. It was my first time doing anything like that since I'd had a child, I was shaking the whole time
There was a small group of us from the Inyo County Democrats that got together and went. Not enough of us to effectively block the building but at least our local newspaper covered it
That’s fantastic. I was living outside the country at the time but still writing about US news on the night shift so it was horrifying to watch even from afar.
This picture has haunted me ever since. I made a copy of it and put it on my desk to remember the evil that people do. Every day for a year and a half, I remembered. The nightmare has never gone away.
Not going back, the environment is overheating, 8 billion humans, 30 billion farm animals and 1 billion pets living on a planet that can sustain 2 billion humans. The daily sewage of 39 billion animals will bury us.
I know of at least one student of mine - when I taught a class for a full year - who was acting out all the time - way more than anyone else in my class
near the end of the year I found out that he had watched his uncle get taken by ICE. it helped fill in the puzzle of why he was struggling so much
See colonialism and indigenous peoples. The roots of our cultural rot run deep and we have never really addressed them, we just keep repeating the behaviour and destructive patterns.
There was another angle on the scene that I saw at the time while looking through Getty Images that focuses less on the little girl's gaze but gave more of the frame to the Border Patrol agent.
Here is a photo I took last year that reminded me of John's photo. This was in San Diego at an open-air detention site where Border Patrol forced hundreds of people to wait prior to being picked up for processing. They patted the girl down, even had her remove her beanie. It was heart wrenching.
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near the end of the year I found out that he had watched his uncle get taken by ICE. it helped fill in the puzzle of why he was struggling so much