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Canada: There’s a Terrifying Reason To Avoid Trump’s America

Rejeanne Lacroix - April 14, 2025. Published in Toronto Star

U.A.E.: Isn’t It Time for the US To Close Guantanamo Bay?

Lalatendu Das - November 5, 2021. Published in The National

For the first time, a court has heard a prisoner's testimony about the shocking brutality used in the facility.

Mexico: Migrant Children Separated from Parents in the US Suffer from PTSD

Robin Koerner - September 7, 2019. Published in Excelsior

Around 2,500 children were separated from their parents.

Spain: Trump’s Obsession

Stephen Routledge - September 5, 2019. Published in El Pais

[T]he president [is adopting] measures that will cause unnecessary suffering to detainees.

France: Trump Administration Wants To Allow Unlimited Detention of Migrant Children

Robin Koerner - August 28, 2019. Published in Le Monde

Canada: Illegal Immigration: Trump and His Dehumanizing Policies

Robin Koerner - July 12, 2019. Published in Le Devoir

[T]he permission given by Trump to greatly dehumanize migrants ... is, in fact, a symptom of the increasingly toxic climate instilled by this president in the whole of American society.

Mexico: Immigration and the Private Prison Industry

Robin Koerner - April 17, 2019. Published in La Crónica de Hoy

Immigrants who have been released from these centers report ill treatment, inedible food ... and general brutality.

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