Tag: Deportation Impact
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The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
Part 6: The Kids Who Stayed Behind After the knock, after the silence – what happens to the children still expected to pledge allegiance, solve for x and turn in their homework? Stillness After the Storm The shoes are still there. Mine and hers.One is leaning against the wall, its heel flattened from mornings in…
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The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
Part 3 — They Were at My Graduation Last Year It started with one name not called at roll. Then another. And another. In a middle school in Arkansas, two desks remained empty after spring break. Their lockers stayed full. Binders, shoes, a hoodie still on the hook. The silence grew so loud that classmates…
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The House Next Door — Echoes Across America
Part 1 — When the Lights Go Out Next Door It began with shrieking. Not laughter or squeals from tag in the yard, but high, piercing screams from children, echoing off vinyl siding and white fences. Neighbors stepped out onto porches. Some dropped garden tools. Others froze. Moments before, the street had been filled with…