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Just Another Goodbye
Source: StoryCorps
When Isaac Lugo was 15, his father was deported. The two had spent nearly Isaac’s whole life in the United States. Isaac tells his story with Mike McAuliffe, the boxing trainer who became his foster father. Learn More > At This Boxing Gym, Former Undocumented…
Resource type: Video
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Ensuring Human Rights Protections and Access to Justice
“I just kept fighting to be free. I knew I couldn’t give up because if I returned to Sierra Leone my life would be in danger.” That is how 25-year-old Badiatu Tunis, a Sierra Leone native residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, describes being detained by the…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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Commencement at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools
Source: Gara LaMarche
Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO addressed the 2010 graduating class at the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools in Haley Farm, Knoxville, Tennessee. I want to start out by saying that I have no recollection of the commencement address when I graduated from St. Bernard’s…
Resource type: Speech