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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's false claims on migrant child deaths

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false claims on migrant child deaths

  Catarina Alonzo Perez, the mother of Felipe Gomez Alonzo, the second Guatemalan child this month to die while in U.S. custody near the Mexican border, pauses during an interview in her home in Yalambojoch, Guatemala, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. Felipe was chosen to make the journey north with his father because he was the oldest son. It didn’t occur to anyone that the road could be dangerous.…

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[sorceressevelyn]

Actions may be legal or illegal, but people are not. Call them immigrants, undocumented families, parents without papers, our co-workers and neighbors. But they are not “illegals.” The i-word reduces human beings to their political status, and silences the real issues in the debate – whether existing immigration laws are even remotely fair or just in the first place. The i-word is offensive and divisive, and doesn’t belong in a newspaper headline any more than the n-word or any other ethnic slur. No human being is illegal.

Charles W. Johnson