Cartoon: Our Freedom Blocked Is By Wall
SAMAIRA BUNBURY, age 10
Month: November 2018
No Voice in America: When My Family Was Torn Apart by Deportation
By Jamya Montrevil, age 11 I began to pet the black leather seats with perky cheeks and big eyes, thinking about how I got to skip school on this windy Thursday morning. As my mom began to speed up I could hear the tires screeching. I wanted to tell her to slow down …
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The Change Our Students and Families Need
Teachers’ Strikes Spread Across the Country in a Fight to Save Public Education By Amzad Ali, age 14 and IndyKids Staff In late August, teachers across 15 school districts in Washington state walked out on strike for nearly two weeks at the start of the school year. They demanded an increase in their …
How Family Separation Continues Through Mass Incarceration
By Lila Katch, age 13 When looking at President Trump’s decision to separate families at the border, it’s easy to pretend that something like this will never happen again. However, this ignores the millions of families across the nation that are currently unjustly separated due to mass incarceration. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 2.3 …
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Family Separation Along the U.S.-Mexico Border May Have Ended, But What Now?
By Lukas Azcurrain, age 12 On June 20th, Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that migrant children who are trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border will no longer be separated from their parents, and can only be detained for 20 days. This executive order only solved a fraction of the problem. Parents who …
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Indigenous Boarding Schools Separated Native American Children from Their Families and Forced Them to Assimilate
By Clare Amann, age 13 In 1945, at the age of 6, Bill Wright, a Patwin Indian, was sent to Stewart Indian School in Nevada. He was given a name that was different from the one chosen for him at birth and forced to assimilate to the American school system and lifestyle. He told …
After Slavery Separated Families, People Went In Search of Lost Loved Ones
By Nylu Bridges Bernshtayn, age 13 Slavery began in what is now the United States in 1619 and ended in 1865 when the thirteenth amendment was ratified. During that period, families were torn apart and family members were sold into slavery. “About one-third of enslaved children in the upper South experienced separation either by …
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Risking It All To Escape Violence
By Heath Briner, age 10 As of 2016, hundreds of thousands of families from Central America and across the globe have been separated at the U.S.-Mexico border and taken into ICE detention centers. Before crossing the border, they made a very long journey, many of them having suffered assaults, robbery, and kidnapping. Why do …
