The Separation of Children During Trump’s Two Presidential Terms

Introduction

This post offers a position against Trump and his administration policies during his first and second presidential terms of authorizing the separation of children from their families and treating them in abhorrent ways. It’s part of their efforts to deport immigrants and the promises they made to their base to do so. Such policies deserve our criticism and scorn. There is also something new currently, that is, to push for the end of birthright citizenship. 

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Looking Back to Trump’s first presidential term

 Caitlin Dickerson looks Back at the Family Separation Policy of Trump’s first term, writing for the American Immigration Council, Oct 30, 2025

(https://americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/family-separation-policy). Here are comments and excerpts. 

Family separation during the first Trump administration

Illegal Orders

Larry Summers, Epstein and the “End Game” Memo

atch Palast on the Thom Hartmann Show today, November 24, at 10 AM Pacific.

Forgive me, but I have to send a little thank you to Jeffrey Epstein. The latest cache of the predator’s memos have finally brought down Lawrence Summers, once President of Harvard University, once US Secretary of the Treasury and the dark eminence behind banking deregulation and mass home foreclosures. And worse.

The newly released emails revealed that Epstein agreed to be Summers’ “wing man,” advising Summers on how to use coercive power to maneuver his female protégé into the sack.

I should write, “The Honorable” Larry Summers. He keeps his “Hon.” honorific as a former Cabinet member, though I wonder how honored Larry’s wife feels having to read the icky Epstein emails in the New York Times.

Summers was also a frequent flyer on Air Epstein.

Nadia Rasul Tops Hilliard City Council Race, Powered by Deep Community Roots

Nadia Rasul

 

In an election that signaled both political and generational change, longtime Hilliard resident Nadia Rasul emerged as the top vote-getter in the November 4, 2025 City Council race securing one of four open seats and becoming the first Muslim woman ever elected to Hilliard’s council.

Rasul’s victory was decisive and historic, but according to her, the reason she won was simple: “People want to feel heard.”

In an interview following the election, Rasul said that many Hilliard residents feel their voices come too late in the decision-making process. By the time citizens deliver public comments, the council has often already signaled how it intends to vote.

“That’s why people are frustrated,” she said. “They want a city government that listens before decisions are made.”

That desire for change combined with what many describe as Rasul’s deep and genuine connection to the community helped propel her to the top of the field.

The Greatest Story Never Told

Sign saying If you're not angry, you're not paying attention

Unless you’ve recently been abducted by ICE you already know about Columbus City Councilmember Emanuel Remy and the $84,700 paid to his staff member for his verbal abuse (our tax dollars mind you, not his). He has lost the trust of the people he is supposed to represent, but ran unopposed on November 4 thanks to the gerrymandered “At-Large” voting system where all competition is crushed without mercy… but you’re missing something.

One of the last independent journalists in Columbus, D.J. Byrnes AKA “The Rooster,” broke the story before the November 4 election. If you subscribe to his online news you would know about it (you should). Would that news have affected the Vogel vs. Ross District 7 race? Yes, it would have.

So what did all of the corporate-owned media outlets do about it? Didn’t they do their civic duty to inform the people of Columbus all about what a terrible person Emanuel Remy has been?

Nope. They did nothing. They sat on the story for after the election.

Power in Solidarity: Fundamentals for Community Organizers (3-part Series)

Details about event

Monday, November 24, 2025, 8:00 – 9:15 PM
Register here

Join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Solidarity Organizing Initiative (SOI) for Power in Solidarity — a powerful, three-part training series designed to ground you in the tools and practices that build real community power.

Together, we’ll explore:

  • Organizing 101: The fundamentals of community organizing
  • Shared Interest Storytelling: Connecting through values and experiences
  • Listening & 1:1s: How to build trust and bring people into the work
  • Running Effective Meetings: Tools to strengthen your organizing spaces

This series is great for:

Power in Solidarity: Fundamentals for Community Organizers (3-part Series)

Details about event

Monday, November 24, 2025, 8:00 – 9:15 PM
Register here

Join Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) and the Solidarity Organizing Initiative (SOI) for Power in Solidarity — a powerful, three-part training series designed to ground you in the tools and practices that build real community power.

Together, we’ll explore:

  • Organizing 101: The fundamentals of community organizing
  • Shared Interest Storytelling: Connecting through values and experiences
  • Listening & 1:1s: How to build trust and bring people into the work
  • Running Effective Meetings: Tools to strengthen your organizing spaces

This series is great for:

Community Conversation in Support of our Immigrant Neighbors

Details about event

Sunday, November 23, 2025 - 1:15pm
Old First Presbyterian Church, 1101 Bryden Rd., Columbus
We are hosting a third community coversation on immigration and our response.

Collaboration with Black Men Build, Interfaith Association of Central Ohio, and others.

Meal provided.

 

 

Dear Mom… Am I a Socialist?

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There wasn’t a secret handshake. No incense or candles.

On a whim, I attended a meeting of the Columbus Democratic Socialists of America meeting on November 22. I had no idea what to expect, but I knew I was not satisfied with how Franklin County or the Columbus city government had been making decisions. To my surprise, I was surrounded by a diverse group of about a hundred other people who felt the same way.

Sitting in front of me was the legendary Joe Motil, former candidate for mayor. Sitting to my right was Jesse Vogel, former candidate for City Council District 7 (who won the voters of District 7, but still lost the election). And behind me sat Kate Curry-Da-Souza who ran as an independent in the primary for District 7 City Council.

Everyone had different, but authentic complaints.

If faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains, the faith of a people in their nation and in each other could move the world!

Those of us whose memories trace back to the afternoon of November 22, 1963, remember exactly where we were, to the moment, when we learned President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Sister Justicia, the Principal of Cleveland’s St. John Cantius Catholic High School called me from the study hall I was monitoring and shared the shocking news that President Kennedy had been shot. I suggested we link the school’s public address system to a network radio broadcast, so that the entire student body would know.

It had been a little more than a week since I had joined my senior classmates on a trip to Washington, D.C., where we excitedly witnessed, on November 11, 1963, President Kennedy laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier.

It was the closest I had come to the President who spoke to my soul , and I am sure to the soul of many young Americans when, in his Inaugural Speech he said:

“Let the word go forth, from this time and place, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans…”.

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