‘I see every child like I see my children’: why US mothers are on the frontlines of resistance movements

Mothers’ experiences often intersect with federal policy battles over gun violence, immigration and childcare

Sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. On the day Renee Good was killed by a federal agent after dropping her son at school, she too had been surrounded by agents who screamed that they were the good guys.

On the other side of the metropolis, Linsey Rippy showed up daily to a church, ready to assemble and distribute boxes full of produce, beans, rice, cereal, sometimes adding in formula for babies stuck at home with their parents because it wasn’t safe to go out during “Operation Metro Surge”, the Trump administration’s widespread and violent immigration enforcement crackdown.

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15 thoughts on “‘I see every child like I see my children’: why US mothers are on the frontlines of resistance movements

  1. So the bottom line is sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. Wonder how this will land.

  2. When you look at sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights, the implications are hard to ignore.

  3. What stands out is sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. That is the part worth paying attention to.

  4. The bigger issue here is sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. That changes the calculation.

  5. Sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. Meanwhile sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights.

  6. Basically sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.

  7. The fact that sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights really puts things into perspective.

  8. Reading that sarah spent the first months of the year following immigration agents around the Twin Cities to document arrests and violations of constitutional rights — hard to argue with the logic there.

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