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Border Patrol

A wall with shadows depicts the separation of immigrant families

2/27/2018

How Immigration Policy Divides Families: Q&A with Arizona Advocate Laurie Melrood

Christie Renick

Laurie Melrood is a family services consultant to southern Arizona immigrant support organizations, including the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. She co-edited a family unity manual for immigrant parents detained by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and co-wrote the procedures for immigrant parents detained in ICE facilities with children in Arizona state custody.

8/11/2017

Teen’s Death Shows Need for Better Training, Regulation of Border Patrol Agents

Opinion

Christian Ramirez

On Friday, July 21st, 2017, the world watched the horrific footage of 16-year-old Cruz Velazquez Acevedo taking multiples sips of an unidentified liquid that would lead to his death – all while in custody of the largest law enforcement agency in the country, the U.S.

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