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Trump Replaces Child Cruelty With Family Cruelty (1/2)
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Trump Replaces Child Cruelty With Family Cruelty (1/2)

After public outcry forced him to end family separation, Trump’s new executive order calls for reviving a family incarceration policy that a court blocked in 2015. We speak to The Nation’s Juliane Hing and Amnesty…

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US Locks Up Central American Refugees That It’s Helped Displace (2/2)
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US Locks Up Central American Refugees That It’s Helped Displace (2/2)

On top of its legal obligations to asylum seekers, does the U.S. have a moral obligation to Central Americans fleeing countries that the U.S. has destabilized? We discuss the criminalization of immigration and asylum-seeking with…

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Rattling the Bars: Ahmad Manasra, a Palestinian boy imprisoned by Israel at age 13
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Rattling the Bars: Ahmad Manasra, a Palestinian boy imprisoned by Israel at age 13

Now 20, Manasra has spent a third of his life in prison. A hearing on Aug. 16 will determine whether to release him from seven months of solitary confinement. Rattling the Bars co-host Mansa Musa…

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