Before Floyd’s casket arrived, workers outside the church assembled a large floral arrangement with white roses on one side in the shape of a heart and with the initials “BLM,” for Black Lives Matter.
Nomaan Merchant—Associated Press
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Nine parents separated from families return to children in U.S.
In June 2018, U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the government to stop separating families and reunite parents and children.
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Government photos show detained migrants pleading for help
The report quotes one senior government manager as calling the situation “a ticking time bomb.”
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Guatemalan teen’s death raises new questions about U.S. care of migrants
The U.S. government refuses to offer an account for the death of 16-year-old migrant Juan de León Gutiérrez, who became the third Guatemalan child to die while under U.S. custody since December 2018.
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Cradling children, migrant families cross the border in waves
Waves of desperate families are trying to cross the border almost hourly and entering an overtaxed government detention system.
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Judge considers expanding child separation case
Critics contend the government started breaking up immigrant families as far back as 2017 and is still doing so.
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As Trump visits border, Texas landowners prepare wall fight
The federal government has started surveying land along the border in Texas and announced plans to start construction next month. Rather than surrender their land, some property owners are digging in, vowing to reject buyout offers and preparing to fight the administration in court.
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Cardinal DiNardo’s office raided by prosecutors in abuse case
Prosecutors investigating a sexual abuse case against a Houston-area priest searched the offices Wednesday of the local archdiocese, which is led by the cardinal who is heading the Roman Catholic Church’s response in the U.S. to sexual misconduct.