Oklahomans are tackling a national immigration issue at the local level. Activists are urging state and municipal law enforcement agencies to not assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid reports of immigration raids and detained asylum seekers. Last Saturday, immigration advocates gathered outside Fort Sill, a military base near Lawton set to house more than […]
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Immigration rally
Immigration activists will meet in Lawton on Saturday to demand closures of camps where immigrant children and families are detained. Dream Action Oklahoma (DAOK) is hosting the event in conjunction with organizations such as Oklahoma Call for Reproductive Justice (OCRJ), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Oklahoma and Black Lives Matter Oklahoma. “The overall purpose […]
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Oklahoma veterans and soldiers receive holiday cheer through Holiday for Heroes
2014 Democratic nominee for Oklahoma governor Joe Dorman leads the effort to send Christmas cards to recovering veterans in the state.
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BLOG: Scripted tour offers look at Fort Sill detention center
During a controlled and scripted tour, members of the media were shown a detention facility at Fort Sill housing nearly 1,000 unaccompanied minor immigrants.
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Fort Sill destination for thousands of caught immigrant children
Stripped of the politics, at the center of the on-going immigration crisis are children desperate enough to risk everything just to touch American soil.
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Geronimo’s bones
Geronimo’s name became forever etched in Western lore in the mid-1880s when he eluded 5,000 U.S. Army regulars in the rugged mountains of Arizona and Mexico with a handful of tribal holdouts. A series of close encounters with the rebel leader left soldiers to wonder if they were chasing a ghost. Finally, on Sept. 4, […]