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  • Texans protest family separation at U.S.-Mexico border

    Texans protest family separation at U.S.-Mexico border

    This story was originally printed in the fall 2018 version of Fellowship! Magazine. By Ashleigh Bugg The children’s detention center is housed in an old Walmart building in Brownsville, Texas. The former big box retailer can hold roughly 1,500 children who have been separated from their parents, many against their will. “The detention centers have…

  • My visit to an ICE detention center

    My visit to an ICE detention center

    I have not seen anything more painful or broken than watching grown men cry in the presence of their family members at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in rural Virginia. Some of their stories I know, some I will never know.  The only crime many have committed was being born in the wrong…