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Understanding the Republican Morality Gap in Dealing with the Children of Undocumented Immigrants at the Border

Understanding the Republican Morality Gap in Dealing with the Children of Undocumented Immigrants at the Border

June 15th, 2018

By James Garbarino, PhD How can Trump Republicans—like Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, to cite but two notable examples—justify the cruel and psychologically abusive separation of children from their parents at the US border, simply because those parents crossed into our country seeking asylum as undocumented (“illegal”) immigrants? It’s not principally a matter of […]


Happy Universal Children’s Day?

November 20th, 2017

Happy  Universal Children’s Day!!!   Yes, that’s right, November 20th is Universal Children’s Day; a day the UN General Assembly declared in 1954 as a day to “promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving child welfare.”  November 20 also has added meaning because on this date the UN adopted two critical documents that promote […]


All Refugee Children Have the Right to an Education

November 8th, 2016

Approximately 3.7 million of the world’s refugee children are currently not in school. While all children have a right to an education, refugee children are five times less likely to have access to a basic education than their peers. As a result, these children – who face constant threats to their physical and emotional health […]