Long before Ferris Bueller did it, Tom Miller skipped class and went to a baseball game in Chicago with – unbeknown to him – his future wife.
It was 1965, and Tom’s family had an annual tradition of going to the opening day of the Chicago White Sox season. A junior in high school, Tom was prepared to skip class with a note from his father saying his grandmother had died – she hadn’t – tickets, transportation and a friend who was tagging along. That is until his friend “chickened out” at the last minute.
Suddenly left with a spare ticket, Tom made an impulsive decision, one that ended up changing his life.
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According to the Department of Justice, former President Trump
Some of the children are in foster homes, perhaps secretly communicating with their deported relatives but perhaps not. Some of the children might themselves be adults now and others might have run away from their American substitute families. Some of the children were pre-verbal at the time of separation too young to remember their families and unaware of their plight.
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Accounting for each child and attempting to locate the deported family members in distant countries has been a tireless effort by non-profit civil rights groups and migrant advocacy organizations around the world. It is an imperative that the new leadership of the United States take swift action to stop the trauma that compounds each and every day these children are kept apart from their families.