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Orphaned by America | Five years after Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy was implemented at the Mexican border, 300 children remain alone, their parents untraceable
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Orphaned by America
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Basia Cummings
Claudia Williams
Patricia Clarke
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The 100-year life
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Thousands of children were separated from their parents at the US border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy. This is the story of how, five years later, 300 remain lost in a system designed to swallow them
Lee Gelernt: And so I stood up in court and said we will find them. We will get private money to find them. We will get NGO partners and private law firms and private investigators and we will find them.
Basia Cummings, narrating: Lee Gelernt hadn't checked with his colleagues before he said this in court.
He hadn't been briefed to say it. He hadn't even, really, been prepared to say it. But in the heat of the moment, in court, in front of a judge – it just came out.
Lee: Truthfully, I'm not sure anybody at that moment, including myself, understood just how big an undertaking it would be.
Basia, narrating: Lee is a lawyer. He works for the ACLU – the American Civil Liberties Union. He's worked there for nearly 30 years. He's now deputy director of their immigration programme. And when he made this promise, he was in a court in San Diego.
It's 2018, and the case is: Ms L v US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
Chief District Judge Dana Sabraw presiding.
Lee and the ACLU were litigating on behalf of a woman, Ms L, an asylum seeker from Congo.
Ms L's daughter, then aged 6, had been forcibly removed from her, taken from her arms, after they arrived in the US, and she was being kept in a facility more than a thousand miles away.
Lee and the ACLU were in court, fighting to reunite this one mother with her child. But they were also using this one case as part of something bigger – to stop the Trump administration's practice of separating children and parents at the border.
Because by this point in 2018, the ACLU knew that this was happening on a larger scale.
Though the Trump government wasn't admitting it, as news of more and more cases began to reach them, the ACLU started to add other separated families to this lawsuit – building a class action.
At first, they were talking about around 400 children who had been separated. But then, that number grew.
And grew.
Lee: I don't think at that moment if you said to me, four years later, five years later, will you still be looking for families? Will you have had to go to central America to look for families? I would have had any conception of that. And I also had no idea who would be willing to help us. So in our mind we were going to be looking for roughly 400 plus families. It turned out that we'd be looking for thousands.
Basia, narrating: Soon after Lee had promised to find and reunite those families in court, the number grew again to 700.
700 children taken from their parents at the US border, and put into holding facilities. And then, it grew again after the Trump administration revealed that the number was actually in the thousands.
2,800, they admitted in court.
Since then the total number of children actually separated by the Trump administration has grown to over 5,500. Children of all ages, including still breast-feeding infants. The youngest, just 4 months old.
And so Lee and the ACLU, with a coalition of partners, embarked on a giant piece of detective work: to find the parents of children separated and detained, the young victims of America's so-called 'zero tolerance' policy.
I'm Basia Cummings, and you're listening to the Slow Newscast. In this episode, we return to one of the great human rights scandals of our time; a dreadful, harrowing policy; that could be impossible to fix.
Reported with my colleagues Claudia Williams and Patricia Clarke – this the story of how 300 children are still orphaned by America.
[Keldy Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga speaking in Spanish]
Basia, narrating: This is Keldy, or to use her full name – Keldy Gonzáles Brebe de Zúniga.
She's from Honduras. A mother with four children.
Her story is here being voiced here by an actor.
Keldy's life in Honduras was dangerous.
Keldy, translated: Since they murdered four of my brothers, and two brothers-in-law too, a sister-in-law, due to the persecution of my life and the life of my family.
Basia, narrating: She had testified in an open court against the hitmen who had killed one of her brothers. Six family members in total had been killed, and her whole family was in danger.
And so she did the only thing that she felt she could. She fled.
In July 2017, she left Honduras. Her destination? Donald Trump's America.
But what Keldy didn't know was what Trump had delighted in telling audiences for months, even years. It was America First after all.
"Anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained, until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came."
Donald Trump, as reported on France24
Basia, narrating: In January 2017, as Trump had assumed office, he almost immediately signed an executive order, using the guise of national security to ban entry to people from Muslim-majority countries.
"I'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America. We don't want them here."
Donald Trump, reported by the Guardian
So by July, when she started her journey to the US, this was the political landscape that Keldy was entering.
Keldy, translated: And we decided, then, to immigrate, leaving, fleeing to different parts. We could not achieve the goal. They couldn't help us until after we came here to the USA. And that's where I get trapped.
Basia, narrating: As a lead lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, an organisation that, among its other aims, defends the rights of migrants like Keldy, Lee Gelernt had been monitoring the Trump administration's policies on children really closely.
But at this point in the summer of 2017, he felt reassured that nothing had substantively changed, yet
Lee: In 2017 there was some media discussion about whether the Trump administration tended to separate families. But what the administration said is, no, we are not doing that. Right now we have no plan to do it. We have discussed it. And I think we, like the rest of the country, largely forgot about it for a little while.
Keldy, translated: Well, they were going to help me and we were going to stop suffering from so much damage from all the abuse that they threatened us with in Honduras. And it was not this way. I always say this phrase, it was like going to a doctor to see if they give it to heal or to relieve the pain, and instead it was more painful.
Basia, narrating: In September, two months after leaving Honduras, Keldy arrived in America. She had travelled by bus across Guatemala and through Mexico.
She had her documents – news clippings, police reports – and she had a plan.
On a hot day, in the arid landscape of New Mexico, she crossed the border on foot with two of her sons – who were then aged 15 and 13 – and she flags down a border control car. She has her papers with her and she feels prepared.
Keldy, translated: I signaled them with my hands for them to help us and when they came and asked me what I was doing there, and I told them I am asking for asylum, it was the first thing that came out of my mouth, I am asking for asylum, and I bring evidence. Well, they detained us, they took us into like a car, well kind of closed in. They later take us to an office where they ask us if I have relatives here in the United States. I said yes. They asked me for an address and everything, and they tell me we are going to call your relatives to buy a plane ticket for you and your children, because we are going to let you go.
Basia, narrating: Keldy had been told originally that they would all be released. But then she was told they'd only be kept apart temporarily.
The situation kept changing. Things were not happening the way that she had been expecting.
She thought that the Border Patrol agents would help her: she wanted to seek asylum, and she had clear documents to support her case.
But what she didn't know, in fact what very few people knew then, is that the Trump administration had quietly shifted its approach to the border.
It was now trialling a new program: filing criminal charges against anyone who crossed the border without permission – which is a misdemeanor offence for the first time – with no exceptions to be made for families with children or to people seeking asylum.
Before the Trump administration, and before this new policy, families in this situation had generally stayed together, either parolled or kept in a detention centre. But, together.
But all of Trump's fighting talk, all of his denigrating rhetoric, had calcified into a new policy that had not yet been announced to the world, but it was there, in New Mexico, shaping what was to become the most painful period of Keldy's life.
Keldy, translated: When the 22nd is over, they call me: ma'am, come on, please, and then my children were also behind me, as always. They tell me, I want to tell you that you are going alone to jail to pay a five-day sentence and your children will go to another place, a shelter, where they will wait for you there to be reunited. And this is only five days that you are going to go and then we are going to transfer you to another place, and they always told me that my children were going to be there. That they were going to be there.
Basia, narrating: After 5 days, Keldy was moved to a detention centre in Texas.
Keldy, translated: I asked an officer: where are my children? And the female officer told me, who told you that your children were going to be here? Your children are not here.
Basia, narrating: And in Texas, Keldy was beginning to realise – that she had fled one nightmare, for another: her sons were not there as she had expected. They were not going to be reunited.
The Trump administration's new approach sent parents to federal facilities, where, legally, children could not go. Instead, they were handed over to the Department of Health and Human services, and sent to shelters.
Keldy, translated: That was when my world came down on me. And I thought that I had lost my children. I did not know where my children were and asked and demanded: where are my children? None of them told me anything. They never gave me an answer: where were my children? As I could, I called my family and they didn't even know where they were, my sister didn't know. About a month after being incarcerated in that detention centre, my sister told me, they are going to deliver them to me, I know where they are. And it was hard, it was so hard for me. Because it was a year and a half without my children. Just hoping someone would come, put money on a phone so I could dial out. If I didn't have money on a phone to dial, I couldn't call my kids. It was so painful. An experience that I never thought I would have to live. It was an empty moment I felt in my heart wondering, turning around, where they are, what have they done to them?
Basia, narrating: As Keldy was locked in a detention centre, separated from her children, the ACLU were beginning to receive disturbing reports.
Lee: But then in the fall of 2017, we began hearing from local groups on the ground that there may be separations occurring. We had no idea exactly what was happening or the extent of the practice. So we began investigating, investigating, and by December of 2017, it became clear that these separations were occurring.
Basia, narrating: But Lee admits, there was some degree of naivety among him and his colleagues at the time. There were rumours about family separation but, in April 2017, the Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, John Kelly, had told a Senate hearing that, in fact, child separation was not a policy the Trump administration was considering.
Heidi Heitkamp: "There's been reports that you are considering separating children from their mothers at the border. And I want to know, yes or no, whether that's true."
John Kelly: "Can I give you more than a yes or no?"
Heidi Heitkamp: "You can do, just a little bit."
John Kelly: "Only if the situation at that point in time requires it. If the mother is sick or addicted to drugs or whatever. The same way we would do it here in the United States."
Heidi Heitkamp: "So if you thought the child was in danger, that's the only circumstance to which you would separate?"
John Kelly: "Can't imagine doing it otherwise."
Basia, narrating: The focus, outwardly at least, was the wall between the US and Mexico. So when these first stories began to trickle through to the ACLU, they mobilised. And in late 2017 and early 2018, what they discovered horrified them.
Lee: Another mother described an 18 month old son screaming, and they put him into the car seat, they would not let her comfort her baby. And they made her close the door. The car started pulling away. She could see her little baby craning his neck to see his mother as the car pulled away. Another father said, I know you're going to take my son away, please, this is just a little boy, please let me have 30 seconds with him to brace him for what's going to happen. They didn't give him that time. They just said, you're coming with us and the little boys begging, poppa, what's happening. And it's not just the trauma to the children, it's the trauma to the parents. The unbelievable guilt they feel, but also how much this has torn apart their relationship with their children.
Basia, narrating: It was during this period that Lee met Ms L, the Congolese mother. She was being detained in the Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego.
Lee: I got a call saying, there's a woman from the Congo who escaped with her young six-year-old daughter. She's now in detention in San Diego. She's lost her daughter. And so I flew out there to see her. And what I saw was shocking. She was gaunt. Hadn't been sleeping, had no lawyer, had her child taken away. And she described what had happened, that she had made this journey for months from the Congo, often walking barefoot, begging for food, eating out of garbage cans, finally got to the US and, mind you, came legally, went to the port of entry and said, I'd like to apply for asylum. They let her and her daughter come in, but they put them in detention. A few days later, they brought them down to an office and they said the daughter needs to come in a separate room. The handcuff the mother and the mother said she heard her daughter then screaming, mommy, don't let them take me. Don't let them take me. The daughter was whisked away to Chicago. The mother didn't get to speak to the daughter for many days. Had no idea why the daughter was taken, had no understanding of where the daughter was, did not have a lawyer. By the time I got out to speak to her, it had been months, she'd only spoken to her daughter a few times. The daughter had celebrated her seventh birthday by herself in a facility in Chicago. And I decided right then that we were putting together a larger suit, what was called a national class action, which would cover the entire Trump administration practice all throughout the United States. But this woman was so desperate, we needed to file suit right away.
Basia, narrating: More than 1,000 miles away, in Texas, was Keldy. It had taken her weeks to find out even where her children were. Her two sons, with whom she had crossed the border, had been moved to a centre for unaccompanied minors.
When she was finally able to speak to them on the phone the first thing she asked was: have they done something to you? The boys said no and they told her everything was fine, they told her to have hope, that it would all work out.
I find it quite tough to think about. These two scared, teenage boys: trying to make their mum, who was so far away, just feel a little better.
After a month, the boys were released from US custody to their aunt in Philadelphia, but Keldy remained in detention.
Keldy, translated: I suffered a lot in that place. I suffered a lot. I hid it so that the others would not hurt themselves. They hurt us because many came with a very strong trauma. Very painful things, that I don't wish on anyone, so much suffering. Many suffered, because I was not the only one there. They pretended that there were no other mothers or fathers who had their children taken. And no, there it was, full of many women who had had taken their children taken from them.
Basia, narrating: Despite the denials, Keldy knew better. All around her, she saw other mothers like her.
Keldy, translated: They had first denied that there were mothers there. But one day I went, in 2018, I went, and we are going to eat at dinner, when I see a Guatemalan mother crying over her food and then I told myself, her children were taken away as well. I felt the mother's instinct. And then when I came up to her she could hardly speak Spanish. There were others there too and they helped translate for me, and I told her they took your son from you right? And it was a girl and a boy who had been taken from her. And I remember that I told her, you know, look, find me the numbers from everything you have, in order to help you. I don't know how I'm going to help you, but I'm going to help you. Find me. Many mothers were in that place, and there they were, pretending that there was no one else, that they had not arrested others. Mothers with children and many mothers came to light from that place, and that is where, Las Americas helped.
Basia, narrating: Keldy began to document everything she saw, making lists of the names of the women in her unit in the ICE center.
And soon, word spread. Others got in touch, names were passed to her in secret.
Eventually, that list became the basis for lawyers at Las Americas, an immigration advocacy centre, to find families to help. And while Keldy's list of names was growing, so was the ACLU's.
Back in court in San Diego, the ACLU were winning the argument against the government in the case of Ms L, the Congolese mother separated from her daughter for four months.
Lee: So we went into court immediately on her behalf and the government denied that there was any systemic practice going on and said, well, she didn't have all the papers with her to show that this was her biological daughter. Well, as any expert on asylum could tell you, of course not because she spent months getting here. She was robbed of everything. And we said, well, look, the daughter looks like the mother. The little girl was screaming, mommy, don't let them take me away, you couldn't seriously have had any doubts. And the government gave this pretextual answer, well, it's always possible she was a trafficker. The judge cut through it immediately and said, look, have you asked her whether she's willing to take a DNA test? The government said, no, we haven't. Judge said I want you to have a DNA test done immediately. Of course, she was the biological mother.
Basia, narrating: In March 2018 – five months after they were separated, Ms L and daughter were reunited after the judge ordered it.
It's a moment captured in a documentary called The Fight. You can see Lee, standing with Ms L. Then suddenly, someone is at the door, moving forward. Her daughter, wearing a bright pink puffer jacket. She runs and wraps her arms around her mother. I'd challenge anyone to watch this scene and not weep for them both. Ms L starts sobbing, holding her daughter, these deep, aching sobs, and shaking her head.
[Clip: sound of Ms L crying –The Fight]
Lee: It's one of the most emotional scenes I've seen. I've been at the ACLU 30 years. It's as emotional a moment as I've had in my career. Just raw emotion. It wasn't just that they hadn't seen each other for months. I think they both felt like they didn't actually think they would ever see each other again. They had no reason to believe they would ever see each other again, and they just fell to the floor in just the rawest emotion
Basia, narrating: It was a victory for Lee and for the ACLU. But it was brief.
Because those names and stories that Lee had been gathering, they were still growing, and inside that ICE centre in Texas, well, Keldy's list was also growing.
Pressure was mounting, but the Trump administration just doubled down. By this point, Lee thinks there might be up to 500 children separated.
Ms L versus ICE is no longer just about the Congolese mother, it's become a class action – a lawsuit about the hundreds of other families separated from their children.
But on 6 April, Jeff Sessions makes zero tolerance an official policy.
"I have put in place a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry on our south west border. If you cross the border unlawfully, then we will prosecute you. It's that simple. If you smuggle illegal aliens…"
Jeff Sessions, as reported by the Associated Press
Basia, narrating: And then, later that same month the New York Times reveals that the number of children separated is greater than anyone had realised. 700 children.
In June, Judge Sabraw rejects the government's attempts to have the case dismissed. He says that what has been uncovered is offensive, that it shocks the conscience, that the government "arbitrarily tears at the sacred bond between parent and child." It wasn't a ruling but it was a clear sign of the direction things are travelling.
And as journalists and lawyers begin to visit the detention centres where children are being kept, more information is being released in the press.
"This is incredible. Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children to at least three – can we put up the graphic of this, thank you, do we have it, no – three tender age shelters in south Texas. Lawyers and medical providers – sorry, I think I'm gonna have to hand this off…"
Rachel Maddow, as reported in the Guardian
Basia, narrating: And with it, the tide of opinion begins to change across the political spectrum.
"The president himself said that he doesn't, he hates these images, he hates this process and that's why he's asked for it to be fixed. I feel like we keep ignoring the fact that the president isn't the one that creates the law…"
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, as reported by Time
Basia, narrating: The former first lady, Laura Bush, writes an article for the Washington Post calling the policy "cruel" and "immoral". She compared it to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War 2.
And in Vatican City.
"A lot of opinions, one being Pope Francis, who agreed with US bishops, calling separation of families immoral and just tweeted moments ago, 'a person's dignity does not depend on them being a citizen, a migrant or a refugee. Saving the life of someone fleeing war and poverty is an act of humanity.' And I gotta say, I think that's a quote that's hard for anyone to disagree with."
As reported in the Washington Post
Basia, narrating: The non-profit newsroom ProPublica releases leaked audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility.
[Clip: sound from US Customs and Border Protection facility – reported by ProPublica]
Basia, narrating: There are facilities set up at the border to receive children. They pre-date the Trump administration. But they're generally for teenagers who attempt to cross by themselves. They weren't set up for toddlers or for babies. These are facilities that just simply weren't prepared for the zero tolerance policy. They didn't have nappies or formula. It was a mess.
Trump and his team, well, they're blaming everyone from the Democrats to the parents themselves.
"It's congress's job to create the law and the president has already laid out and gladly stated a number of times publicly that he would sign legislation that fixes these loopholes and fixes our immigration system."
Kirstjen Nielsen, former Secretary of Homeland Security
Basia, narrating: By 20 June, just 6 weeks after the policy became official and 9 months after it started, the Trump administration does a U-turn.
"So we're gonna have strong, very strong borders, but we're going to keep the families together. I didn't like the sight or the feeling of families being separated. It's a problem that's gone on for many years as you know, for many administrations, and we're working very hard on immigration. It's been left out in the cold, people haven't dealt with it and we are finally dealing with it."
Donald Trump, as reported by NBC News
Basia, narrating: Finally, on 26 June, Judge Sabraw issues a nationwide injunction and orders the Trump administration to reunite the families who have been separated. And he tells them to do this within 30 days.
It was a win. But at that moment, it meant little to Keldy, who remained trapped in a detention centre in Texas.
She had just been forced to appear in front of a full asylum hearing alone, without a lawyer.. By now she had been over 6 months without her children.
Keldy, translated: And there was the judge, there was the prosecutor, there was an officer. But no one gave me the right to present my documentation. Because my documents had not reached me, other evidence that I had had not reached me. It did not give me the right. I had nothing else to do. He wouldn't let me talk at all.
Basia, narrating: She was not given the opportunity to show the documentation that she had carefully brought with her all the way from Honduras.
Keldy, translated: I felt I was not heard. And yet I begged him and begged him not to send me to Honduras. I'm in danger. Don't send me to Honduras. I went out as if I was already dead.
Basia, narrating: The judge signed it. Keldy was to be deported. She later found out that the judge in charge of the hearing rejected around 90 per cent of all cases brought before him.
In January 2019, more than six months after the courts had ruled against the child separation policy, Keldy was sent back to Honduras – alone – without her children.
Basia, narrating: Back in America, following the ruling in June 2018, the focus shifted to how the families will be reunited and how long the US government would be given to do it.
And Lee, Lee's made that big commitment. Remember he had stood up in front of the judge and said, he, with the ACLU, would help reunite families…
Lee: And so I stood up in court and said, we will find them. We will get private money to find them.
At that time, he was anticipating that they would be finding and reuniting hundreds of families.
But of course during the suit, the government had been forced to compile and hand over a list of all the families who had been separated.
And the number was astonishing.
Lee: The government then went back and presented the list of how many children, and we were not sure how many it would be, we had alleged that it could be up to 700 based on the New York Times investigation. It turned out that there were 2,800.
Basia, narrating: 2,800.
Four times the highest figures that had been reported.
The scale was a part of the horror, of course, but in our conversation with Lee, it's around here that you begin to understand the instruments of this government cruelty.
Because this wasn't just about separating children from their parents as a deterrent – as a totem of the Trump administration's commitment to protecting the border.
It was, it turns out, that the bureaucracy was a part of the cruelty, too. Or, maybe I should say, the lack of it,
Lee: He then asked me how many days do you think we should give the government to get these children reunified. And we knew that if we said, you know, they have to get them reunified in a week, it would never happen as a practical matter. Because one thing that had become clear is that they really hadn't kept track of where all the kids were, as bad as it was to take the kids, they hadn't actually kept track of where all the kids were and where all the parents were. The judge commented that he thought the United States was keeping track of property better than it was little children. So we decided that 30 days to get all the children reunified and 14 days for children under five. And then the worst part was that all the parents and children in the US eventually got reunified, but the government then admitted that about 400 parents had been deported without their children. And the lawyer for the Trump administration stood up in court and said, well, they're already deported, they shouldn't even be part of the case. And the judge said, absolutely not, they were separated. They were in a worse position because they're sitting in their home country, not knowing where their children are. And the Trump administration then said, well, we're not going to go find them, we're not sure where they are.
Basia, narrating: And that's how Lee came to stand up in court and make that promise.
Together with the legal firm, Paul Weiss, and three charities, Kids in Need of Defense, Women's Refugee Commission, and Justice in Motion, the ACLU began the process of tracking and reuniting children with their parents. But as with almost every step in this story, the situation, somehow, didn't yet get better.
Lee: Unfortunately. Months later an internal report from the US government said that the 2,800 were not actually all the families. We then went back to court and said, your honour, the 2,800 appear to be not the full amount. The Trump administration said while they were separated so far back, we don't think they should be part of the case. Again, the judge was furious and said, absolutely, they're going to be part of the case. The Trump administration then said, well, we need two years to give the ACLU the names of these families, not to find them, just to give us the names. And that's when they just candidly admitted, your honour, we haven't really kept track of them and we're going to have to go through every single hard file we have and figure it out. And I said, well, look that can't be, some of the kids are three and four years old. That's half their life. We eventually agreed that the government would give it to us on a rolling basis and would have to finish within six months. So we got another 1,500 children. Many of them, hundreds of them, were under five like the first group. Some were under one years old, breastfeeding, 6-7 months old. They literally were ripping the children out of their parents' arms.
Basia, narrating: And it's important to point here that although Lee is in many ways the most visible part in this fight – he's the lead attorney on the case after all – he is just one person, at one of the many organisations, trying to sort this mess out.
A whole coalition of nonprofits and activists and social workers and attorneys are working towards getting these families together.
But of course there was a problem.
Not only were the list of names incomplete, coming in on a rolling basis, the information they were receiving was scant.
Lee: We would get the name, the child's name, date of birth, and if we were lucky, we'd get a phone number and if we were really lucky that phone number would still be working and someone would answer the phone. Very often we would get a phone number that was either incorrect or no longer working. Sometimes we would get an address. Sometimes we would get a region of the country. And then there were times we got no information.
Basia, narrating: The work that goes into finding these families is painstaking. It's tough, investigative work.
Many of the parents aren't in the US anymore, they'd been deported, like Keldy. Or, their children might be so young that they don't know any details – they don't even know their own surname.
The phone numbers scribbled down back in 2018 might no longer work. There are phone lines and adverts dedicated to spreading information across Mexico and Central America, but many of these families who'd been separated, they live in remote places, without good internet access. They might not speak English or Spanish.
And many of them are fleeing persecution in the first place. They don't want to be found by the wrong people. So, ontacting the government or the police to find out information isn't always possible or even safe for them.
And sometimes it would work like this, that lawyers at Paul Weiss, one of the big New York legal firms, would get a list of names, children who had been sent to different facilities in New York. They would then enlist the help of other legal firms to find the parents. If they couldn't find them, they'd conclude that the parents had been deported. So they then contacted another legal firm, with offices in Central America, and their employees would start looking there.
The effort that has gone into finding these families, it just cannot be overestimated.
Even when these groups found both family and child, they were hamstrung because while the Trump administration wasn't supposed to separate families anymore, that didn't mean their immigration policy had become any kinder.
Lee: We found those families during the Trump administration, hundreds and hundreds of families, but we weren't able to offer them much. We could give them two options. You could remain permanently separated, where it remains separated from your child, or we can get your child back to you in central America. Many families with small children had their children brought back to them. But other families, especially if they were older and gang recruitment age, decided it was just too dangerous to bring their child back.
Basia, narrating: In January 2019, a report from the health department's Inspector General revealed that thousands more children had been separated from their families than originally thought – during a previously undisclosed pilot programme in El Paso, Texas.
That's what had happened to Keldy.
It is now thought that the Trump administration separated more than 5,500 children from their parents between 2017 and 2018.
For Keldy, time was about to loop. She had been sent back to Honduras, but just days after arriving there, on the 24 January 2019, she began her journey to the US – for the second time. She did it all again, in the blink of an eye, to be reunited with her sons.
She travelled through Guatemala towards Mexico, almost the exact same journey that she had taken a year and a half earlier.
By now, she knew where her children were. She was no longer in detention so she could contact them as she wanted. But she still couldn't see them.
Instead, she was trapped in limbo at the border of Mexico and the US. Waiting and praying. And while she's waiting, the political stars realign for Keldy, and for thousands of other parents.
"We can now project that former Vice President Joe Biden will win Pennsylvania and Nevada putting him over the 270 electoral votes he needs to become the 46th president of the United States."
Basia, narrating: And the new president, Joe Biden, made it clear early on that he wanted to reunite all the families affected by the zero tolerance policy.
"What happened: parents, their kids were ripped from their arms and separated, and now they cannot find over 500 sets of those parents and those kids are alone. Nowhere to go. Nowhere to go. It's criminal."
Joe Biden, as reported by NBC News
And he followed through.
"President Biden signed three executive orders Tuesday, advancing his immigration reform agenda. The proposals aimed to overhaul many of the policies established by former president Trump. The first executive order establishes a task force to identify all migrant children who were separated from their families by the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy."
Basia, narrating: For Keldy, this was utterly transformative.
Because, in February this year, 2021, she got a message from Linda Corchada, her immigration attorney, from Las Americas. It was the message she had been waiting for.
Keldy, translated: When she wrote those words, I thought this is it, this is it. I am going to go in, I am going in. And I was planted with that hope, so strong, that we just complied with the lines that the lawyer wrote me. I felt that it was already true. That I was going to enter, that they were not going to deny me anything.
Basia, narrating: She eventually received a message telling her the date – Tuesday 4th May – that she would be allowed to cross the border into the US, and find her sons. After nearly 4 years of hoping, she couldn't quite believe it.
Keldy, translated: When I told her they are not going to cheat me, are you sure that they will not leave me locked up or they will not make me move from here just to stop me and send me back to my country. Because I was seeing things that were so uncertain, and I was unsure what was happening at that time. Then she told me no, no, no, I'm going to be there.
Basia, narrating: Linda, her lawyer, met her at the Mexican border. From there she got a plane to Dallas, then another flight to Philadelphia.
It was the evening of Tuesday 4th of May 2019 that Keldy walked through the doors of her niece's house – where her whole family had gathered – and she was finally able to surprise her children.
Mino, one of her sons, had his head bowed into his hands, he was crying out of sheer joy, relief, astonishment. The family piled around her.
[Sound of Keldy's family greeting her, loud excitement and cheering]
Keldy, translated: I just felt like I was a fulfilled mother. My children in front, my mother, seeing my whole family, I felt fulfilled in all this that happened and that continues to happen. It was all so sudden for them. One of my sons, Alex, the eldest, says he couldn't believe it. The two little ones from whom I had been separated, they screamed and cried desperately, and they hugged me. It was something very, very strong.
Basia, narrating: And stood in the corner of the room was Lee Gelernt. Keldy was one of the first to be allowed to return to the US, under the provisions made by the Biden administration, with temporary legal status – he had flown in across the country just to witness this moment.
Keldy, translated: Those years came to change, then, the stages of where I wanted to see my children. Growing up with me from that adolescence, going through it with them, explaining many things to them and this came to steal them. Those years, they took everything from me.
Basia, narrating: More than 1,400 children remain separated from their parents.
And this brings me to the number, that, I guess, this whole podcast has been building towards.
It's not a precise number, it's a ballpark, which, I think, makes it even worse. Because there are still 300 children whose parents haven't been found.
According to a court filing from August for 12 of those 300 the government has so far failed to pass on any contact number for the parent, the child, the sponsor or an attorney.
These are children who, at the border, some time between 2017 and 2018, were just taken and lost in a system that used omission, administrative omission, as a form of cruelty.
Finding their parents is now a matter of urgency for Lee and his colleagues.
Lee: And so we have been looking and looking, we unfortunately still are looking for the parents of about 300 children. Where we are now with the Biden administration is trying to fix all this. And it's a few things: finding the families, the remaining families, is just one part. Reunifying the families in the US with their children is a second part and absolutely critical.
Basia, narrating: So We started reporting this story with a question in our minds, about the 300 or more children whose parents just cannot be found. Who have been, essentially, orphaned by the American border police and by a bureaucratic system that took better care of property than it did of children.
In his order granting the plaintiff's motion, basically, in favour of Lee's class action against family separation, Judge Sabraw made some damning remarks. Things that summarise, I think, what this damning episode in American history is about.
He wrote that in the chaos, in the hurry to implement a policy dreamed up by the Trump administration, there were no measures in place for agencies to talk to each other – the agencies housing the children were not in contact with those the detaining parents.
He wrote that there was never any protocol to notify the parents about where their children were; and that these children were used as tools in the parents' criminal and immigration proceedings.
And perhaps, most damningly, he said that there was just simply never, any reunification plan in place.
And the conclusion of this is the 300 children whose parents can't be found. Who are lost in a system that was, it turns out, designed to swallow them up.
Lee: I think these 300 children, that the families of these 300 children, are not about some bureaucratic failure that happens all the time. That this is about deliberate cruelty. And I hope that we do not lose sight of this years down the road. And you ask a high school student about it and they have no idea because this is one of those things that can never happen again.
Basia, narrating: I've been thinking, as we worked on this podcast, about bureaucracy. About how to articulate what this failure of record-keeping, this failure to keep track of children thrown into a giant national system, shows us.
As Lee and his colleagues continue to work to find these final parents, five years after separation, it's clear that – the failure of bureaucracy was a part of the brutality of the whole endeavour. It wasn't an accident. It was deliberate.
In the heavily policed, regimented immigration system built to keep track of those entering the United States, built to trap people into a fortress of bureaucracy, these children were denied due process, a concept enshrined in the US constitution.
For them, there were just a few phone numbers scribbled on papers across the country, getting lost was a deliberate cruelty, from which many of them may never recover.
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Trust, Commitment, Care: A Coach, a Player and an Unbreakable Bond
Bob McKillop first saw Stephen Curry play on a baseball field, not a basketball court.
Before the hard court, it was the ballpark. Stephen Curry and Brendan McKillop played on the same winning AAU baseball team.
Curry and McKillop's son Brendan played on an AAU baseball team of 10-year-olds that won the North Carolina state championship and advanced to the nationals. The McKillops, Currys and other families spent weekends traveling to different towns, staying in the same hotels and cheering their kids on from the stands.
A few years later, McKillop sat in the Currys' Charlotte living room and asked them to entrust him—and Davidson—with Stephen's college years. Stephen committed on the spot, and his mom, Sonya, told McKillop, "Don't worry, I'll fatten him up before he gets there."
"No need to do that," McKillop said. "We'll take him just the way he is."
Thus begins the story of how a veteran coach and a skinny, scrappy point guard overlooked by bigger schools formed one of college basketball's closest and most famous alliances. It's one based on respect, loyalty and love. And it's spelled out in McKillop's TCC mantra (trust, commitment, care), that's tattooed on Curry's wrist.
"Stephen brings a joy to basketball and life, and he includes everybody in that joy," McKillop says. "He'll be at a press conference after a game and immediately deflect attention from himself—he thanks and praises his teammates, just like he did as a college freshman. He doesn't hold on to the spotlight, he passes it around and lights everybody up.
"No one ever goes to Stephen without leaving happier."
Curry often expresses gratitude to McKillop—and Davidson—for taking a chance on him and helping to shape him into the player—and person—he's become.
"Never in a million years would I have imagined that this day was possible and all of the successes and experiences that have come were possible," Curry said at his Davidson commencement, jersey retirement, and Hall of Fame induction ceremony in August. "What I did know was that I was entrusting my college journey to a true leader, somebody who has so much compassion, care and love for every single person you come in contact with."
It was an emotional moment: Curry's voice choked slightly, and tears sprang to McKillop's eyes.
"You built the total human being, as an athlete and as a citizen," Curry said. "I know I can speak for everyone that's ever played for you—none of this is possible without you. Thank you so much for your leadership, and your example."
Coach, Father
McKillop figures he's coached about 500 players during some 50 years in the profession. That includes sons Brendan '11 and Matt '06. Matt McKillop is now head coach of Davidson's men's basketball team.
"I had the privilege of coaching my own sons and I fortunately learned that everyone is somebody's son. I felt like they were all sons to me," Bob McKillop says. "I aspired to have that connection with all our guys and Steph became that and has remained that for me."
Sometimes parenting—and coaching—requires tough love.
Curry got a dose of the hard stuff when he overslept and tried to sneak into his first Davidson practice a couple minutes late. McKillop kicked him out. He allowed Curry to come back the next day, and it never happened again.
McKillop laughs recounting how Curry scored 15 points in his first college game. And turned the ball over 13 times, McKillop says, "a double-double in his first college game and a memorable one."
It's been quite an evolution for a player now considered one of the NBA's greatest ever.
Love you Coach! Thank you for everything you've done for me, my family, Davidson and every person you've impacted along the way. #TCC #greatdaytobeawildcat https://t.co/hG266yUyst
— Stephen Curry (@StephenCurry30) June 17, 2022
Stephen Curry's social media post when Bob McKillop announced his retirement.
The announcement—and post—came just hours after Curry led the Golden State Warriors to the NBA championship and scored the MVP award
McKillop deflects the praise he often gets for his role in Curry's achievements; saying his early shooting lessons and basketball IQ came from his father, former Charlotte Hornet Dell Curry. Stephen the man came about because of his parents, McKillop says.
"Sonya and Dell have raised incredible children," McKillop says. "As a 10-year-old, Stephen was graceful, joyful and talented. He was also very polite, and very respectful of people—all the things he still is today."
It's a bit surreal to think about how much has transpired since the basketball coach first saw a kid playing baseball.
"Sometimes I'll see Dell at a Warriors game," McKillop says. "We'll make eye contact after some sensational shot Steph's made and we'll shake our heads and smile and give each other a 'can you believe this?' look.
"It truly is magnificent how far this journey has taken him; and he has brought us all along with him."
This article was originally published in the Fall/Winter 2022 print issue of the Davidson Journal Magazine; for more, please see the Davidson Journal section of our website.
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DJ Rae Chardonnay's musical explorations include House from around the world, Soul, Funk, Disco & Hip Hop. She is dedicated to making backs sweat on the dance floor and is a founder of projects such as Black Eutopia and Party Noire. As an artist Rae Chardonnay also holds recognition by the Chicago Reader's "Best of 2016" issue as Chicago's top DJ.
Jamie Hayes loves to dance. That love led her to share her extensive and eclectic vinyl collection, enriched by her travels as a fashion designer in the fair trade movement, with dance floors across Chicago since 2007.
Daniel Musisi AKA Moose is a seasoned, Chicago-based DJ whose styles range from global sounds and dancehall, to classic hip hop, funk, and disco; often weaved into a single set to keep the dance floor packed. A recent Chicago transplant from Washington, DC, Daniel is a cofounder of the FunkDC DJ collective and TrueGrooves record label. During his time djing in DC, Daniel has provided music for the Obamas on numerous occasions, at both the White House and the 2013 Commander in Chief Inaugural Ball. In Chicago, Daniel can currently be found djing at Chicago Athletic Association Game Room, Bar Deville, The Hideout, and Sportsman's Club.
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Cyber Crime on the Orient Express: This Time There's Wi-Fi!
It's always the morning somewhere on the internet, this year's Malahide Murder Morning has three themes and one of them is the impact of digital crimes and Cyber crime on the world we live in.
The first computer was built around a 'hack'. Alan Turing wanted to listen in on the German radio messages and aid the allied forces in shortening World War Two; the first 'hack' was born.
Crime and the digital fabric of the world now go hand in hand. Innovation and the arrival of digital has changed the way we think about everything. Digital moves at a pace that is so hard to keep up with, a constant need to flux and change.
Whether it's murder, blackmail, embezzlement or a sheer mischievous nature, digital can make the role of the criminal so much easier.
But, it makes the role of the detective easier too. The digital advantage in the criminal world becomes more and more about the speed of change and acceptance of digital; think Watson and Holmes with Facebook as an ally or Miss Marple using google to find a crucial piece of information.
This Murder Morning session with Richard Corbridge, Chief Information Officer of the HSE – and long suffering Barnsley fan – will explore the various concepts of Cyber crime and how they can be used to ill effect and combated for good.


The day of unabashed PDA, dinner date nights, and let's not forget, the overdose of roses and chocolates is right around the corner. And even though most assume that Valentine's Day is best celebrated with your better half, you can totally celebrate yourself, too. In fact, we insist that you do. Take a look at 20 things you can do on Valentine's Day if you're single (and not ready to mingle).
1. Only singles allowed. Host a sensational party for all your single friends. Get some booze, inexpensive cutlery, cheap (but good) food and loads of bitching about couples. Because, why not!
2. Movie marathon with your single friends. Do you miss listening to your friends rumble about work? Or, cracking inside jokes? This can only mean one thing: It's time to bring back movie night, but with only single friends.
3. Bar-hopping. Begin (and end) a night of drinking at different bars. We're giving you the freedom to get really, really sloshed.
4. Who said sailing is for couples only? Book a yacht and hit the high seas. If not alone, call in a couple a friends.
5. Binge-watch rom-coms on Netflix. Hey, we're not trying to make you feel bad about being single. In fact, watching rom-coms might just make you feel particularly empowered to be proudly single.
6. Arrange a V-day celebration for your parents. They might think they're too old for it now, but, trust us, when you plan a romantic date for your parents, they will be ecstatic. Go all out - candlelight, flowers, dinner by the sea - make it a night to remember... for them.
7. Spa time. But, isn't this a woman thing? Heck no! You, too, can give it a try. The idea can seem daunting at first, but you won't regret it.
8. Plan a masquerade party. Let's take your party planning up a notch by hosting a masquerade part for your close ones. Toast to your freedom.
9. Sign up for a dance class. Because, who doesn't like grooving to Bollywood music with absolute abandon?
10. Hit the gym. While all your not-so-single friends are hogging on unhealthy meals with their girlfriends, you can sweat it out at the gym. In fact, you can challenge yourself by pushing harder than usual.
11. Take a walk on the wild side. In other words, go for a nature trail and be in the vicinity of the greenery that you'd most probably not find in the city.
12. Prank your friends who are out on a date. There's nothing as hilarious as joking around with your friends who're out on a date. They'll hate you for it, but it will make your day.
13. Gift yourself the latest gadget. Why wait for another person to gift you a Valentine's Day gift when you can do it yourself?
14. Drink champagne (like a boss).
15. Enjoy the now. Yes, you're single which means you can get to know yourself better. Think about what you want in life and where you see yourself 10 years down the line. Basically, exercise self-love. And that my friends, is the best Valentine's Day you can give yourself.


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Pizza Review: Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant - Feta cheese & spinach pizza
October is National Pizza Month and PNJ's Pizza Pros are out to find the best pie in Escambia, Santa Rosa counties
Pizza Review: Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant - Feta cheese & spinach pizza October is National Pizza Month and PNJ's Pizza Pros are out to find the best pie in Escambia, Santa Rosa counties Check out this story on pnj.com: https://on.pnj.com/1Lk5jTx
PNJ Pizza Pros Published 11:11 a.m. CT Oct. 8, 2015 | Updated 11:33 a.m. CT Oct. 8, 2015
The spinach and feta pizza from Founaris Brothers Greek Restaurant.(Photo: PNJ Pizza Pros)Buy Photo
October is National Pizza month - and throughout the month, a select team of PNJ Pizza Pros will be checking out Pensacola-area pizzerias in search of the area's best pies. At the end of the month, each of our judges will name their Top 3 area favorites.
Here is today's short and sweet review:
Pizza Pro 1: I was surprised at how much I loved this pizza since I normally wouldn't get fetta and spinach as toppings. As you get closer to the crust there is more marinara sauce, which was delicious. The last couple of bites are the best because of that sauce, so I wish there was more throughout. It's a deeper dish pizza, which I usually don't always like, so this was a pleasant discovery all around.
Pizza Pro 2: After my first bite of the spinach and feta cheese topped Founaris Brothers pizza, I thought, this is OK. Nothing special. A couple minutes later, I realized I had just scarfed down my third piece. The feta cheese and crisp crust were the best parts of the pizza. The sauce was good to, but I wish there was more of it.
Pizza Pro 3: Because this pizza was coming from a Greek restaurant, I was hoping it would contain copious amounts of feta. It did, and I was happy. I like spinach on a pizza, if only to provide a nice mix of color and the ability to argue later that I incorporated vegetables into my meal. There was quite a bit of spinach on the pizza and the taste was overwhelmingly leafy. The pizza still had a red sauce, and I think the flavors might have complimented more by a white or a garlic sauce. The crust was really doughy, but crispy around the edges. This is a pizza for those who feel guilty about gorging. Although it was hearty and heaping with toppings, it didn't feel heavy on my stomach and I finished my slices without simultaneously feigning the notion of an exercise plan in the future.
Founaris Bros. Greek Restaurant, 6911 Pensacola Blvd., Pensacola. Hours of operation 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday. 969-9099 founarisbros.net/
We want to hear from you. Send us photos of your favorite pizzas along with a Twitter-length review — no more than 120 characters — via email to communitycontent@pnj.com or on Twitter or Instagram using #PNJpizza. We'll share the most popular choices and some of your comments with our hungry readers, as well.
And no, you're not limited to the Pensacola city limits, but please keep your responses to Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
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Site Lists UL's Billy Napier as Candidate for South Carolina Job
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Is Louisiana Ragin' Cajun head football coach Billy Napier going to be a candidate for the head coaching position at South Carolina?
One highly respected football website seems to think so.
FootballScoop lists Napier as one of five early candidates for the position, which became vacant on Sunday, following the dismissal of former South Carolina head coach Will Muschamp, one day after the Gamecocks fell to the Ole Miss Rebels, 59-42, which dropped them to 2-5 on the season.
Really, while this might get people talking, it doesn't really mean a whole lot.
First, Napier has done a fabulous job as head coach at Louisiana for the last three seasons, guiding the program to an overall record of 25-11, including an 11-3 record last year, setting a single-season school record for wins, as well as a 7-1 mark and a current top 25 ranking (#24 in AP Poll) this year.
Second, Napier has served as an assistant coach at such Power Five schools as Alabama (2011, 2013-2016), Arizona St. (2017), and Clemson (2006-2010).
In other words, he has a great resume and is one of the top young head coaches in the entire country. Many schools would have a serious interest in Napier, such as was the case last year, when many said Mississippi St. had a serious interest in him.
Finally, Napier has South Carolina ties, as he played his college football at Furman, before coaching stops at South Carolina St. and Clemson.
The only surprise would be if South Carolina doesn't seriously consider Napier.
As long as the Cajuns continue to have success, Napier's name is going to be mentioned in coaching searches. Again, it happened last year with the Mississippi St. opening and is already apparently happening this year.
Napier obviously likes it at UL, otherwise, he would have gone someplace else after last season. So, just because another school is interested doesn't necessarily mean he's going to leave.
We've all seen what has happened in coaching searches over the years too. Most of the time, the name of the coach that winds up eventually getting the job wasn't even listed among the early candidates.
And while FootballScoop is a highly-respected site which does a great job, this is only speculation, just one day after a change was made. Time will tell.
In the meantime, take Napier's name being mentioned for coaching openings as something to be expected, and as a compliment if you're a fan of the Cajun program.
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Larson Orthodontics is proud and excited to serve Old Town and Old Town North.
Well, how about doing all that in an office environment that you love? It sounds simple, but this office is one of the reasons we love coming in to work every day.
What's really amazing about The Larson Orthodontics current location is that we are in a prime spot to see Alexandria grow up around us! This part of Alexandria is an amazing place to provide orthodontic care and we love being around the new developments, the quaint older buildings, the beautiful parks to go along with the Potomac riverfront, and the wonderful trail system. In addition to the beautiful scenery.
Old Town North is rich with history. Gadsby's Tavern Museum is a place where you can learn about the early days of our country and a place both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson used for important events. That's why we're so excited to see the growth in the Old Town District.
Honestly, we can wait to see what pops up next. And of course, we're excited about serving these new developments with amazing orthodontic care!
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The New Wave celebrates Singapore's latest additions to the the urban music scene. Get groovy as you rediscover RnB with Sheeq Luna and pop singer The Zadon. Also, expect a grimy night with up-and-coming Singapore-based rapper REQ as he performs songs from his debut EP Against All Odds and sneak previews from his upcoming record Sleeping Giant.
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As Further Evidence of Wild Pitching Market, Mets Just Gave José Quintana $26M
The pitching market continues to exceed all expectations and the latest move makes the Cubs' deal with Jameson Taillon look even better. After being left for dead in 2021, José Quintana bounced back with the Pirates and Cardinals to post a 2.93 ERA over 32 starts. That was enough to convince the Mets to give him a two-year contract worth $26 million, easily the largest deal of his career in terms of AAV.
Free-agent left-hander José Quintana in agreement with Mets on a two-year, $26M contract, pending physical, sources tell me and @WillSammon.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 7, 2022
Quintana got $26.5 million over five years from the White Sox, which was why he seemed so valuable to the Cubs as a would-be No. 2 starter. He later signed a one-year pact with the Angels for a then-personal-record $8 million AAV in 2021. Man, this is wild. I wish him the best, but his time with Cubs left me scarred.
In other pitching news, Kenley Jansen easily beat projections by getting $32 million over two years with the Red Sox.
Ed. Note: An earlier version of this story mistakenly listed Q's deal as $32 million because someone is a big Freudian dummy who conflated it with the Jansen contract.
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First version of TrustConnect client for RedHat (Fedora, RHLE) and Ubuntu systems has already released.
Client provides you simple management of TrustConnect connection through WEB-interface using browser.
Run trustconnect client: "Aplications Menu" -> "Internet" -> "TrustConnect Client"
Is this the first Comodo product for an OS besides Windows?
TrustConnect client for RedHat (Fedora, RHLE) and Ubuntu systems has already updated.
The new version contains several bug fixes and interface improvements.
and install or update your current package.
Can I use my windows account after installing trust connect for Ubuntu (Meaning my login ID and password).
Yes, you may use the same TC service login/password as for Windows client. You may connect TC system from Windows or from Ubuntu client with the same account, but not in one time.
Ok, I used the auto install in Umbuntu 10. and it says connecting but it never says connected? What do I do?
I have a paid account.
It installed as part of firefox buts comes up in separate window.
What is the exact release number of your Ubuntu? What is in the Session Log when you are trying to connect ("High Verbosity" mode in "Cofigure client" tab should be set)?
Umbuntu 10.10 and I can't get into config. It says config not available. This is even after doing a removal and reinstall from super user account in text window.
oot[at]steve-Satellite-A505:/home/steve/Downloads# dpkg -i tcclient_1.0-1_all.debSelecting previously deselected package tcclient.
CTC Client doesn't work on Ubuntu 10.10. You may use free openVPN client.
Copy certificate and configuration files into OpenVPN configuration directory /etc/openvpn/.
or sudo /etc/init.d/openvpn for usage hint.
and DEF_ROUTE_IP - IP of your default router.
to log the openvpn's messages.
Ok I installed that and it went fine until the certificate install. It asked me if I wanted to install certificate and I said yes and it installed that. I started the service. Nothing happened in Firefox?? So, what do I do now? I tried to check status but nothing happened.
Ok I installed that and it went fine until the certificate install. It asked me if I wanted to install certificate and I said yes and it installed that.


Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Sage, an outward and inward look at the week to come. So many of us use Tarot, astrology, and contemplative journaling to support ourselves and each other. We hope this little weekly blog will inspire all of us to think, feel, and transform in bigger ways together. May it unite us by collectively magnifying our personal intentions into a potent source of positive energy, that will spread into our communities and beyond.
The Wheel of the Year will soon return to its place of new beginnings, igniting the visible spark of hope. In India, Holi, known commonly as the Festival of Colors and Festival of Love, signifies the emergence of spring, and begins on the last full moon of winter. Holi is a celebration of life. Welcoming the spring is honoring the creative life force in everything. When we add color to something, we give life to it; we are painting our canvases of life.
The Festival of Love is messy, covering everyone with the same paint – people are literally colored with powder and water. Its magic reminds us we are all equal at heart and play. If we accept that our bodily functions, emotions, and actions are naturally messy, we will make room for more pure expression, enjoyment, and passion for life.
Join me live in person or online for our Full Moon event on March 1, as we celebrate life and abundance, receiving and sharing our blessings together. Get your full moon tools ready! I intentionally chose each item in my India Full Moon: Holi Festival of Love Set to bring the sensuality and richness of India to your practice, as you welcome spring, new beginnings, and more love and color into your life.
The Virgo full moon approaches, and we are ready for Luna's maximum light after a month without her fullness. On March 1, we will unify in rejoicing across the world, under the last full moon of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Virgo is associated with the virgin and purity. It definitely correlates with "operation clean up", but not in the ways our minds most commonly like to take us. Virgo guides us to remember who we are at our core, heart and essence. Virgo harnesses the power of discrimination and filtration. It serves to help us serve ourselves by releasing impurities that are not in alignment with our true essence. People will talk of this coming Virgo full moon as the "detoxifying moon", and yes, it's a great time to purge toxins, and eat and drink clean, but it's so much more than that. If you want a good measure of what's happening inside of you, look to what is coming out of you. Pay attention to your words and actions, and their quality. Allow the illumination of this full moon to reveal the manifestation of your intentions and what you are creating in the world.
As we journey through A World of Magic this year, we are choosing a variety of Tarot decks for the Weekly Sage, as they correspond with the civilizations we explore. This edition, we are using Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot deck, once again, to embrace the secret symbology of Egypt. The Prince/Knight of Wands comes forward today for all of us, representing adventurous pursuit. The Prince of Wands is determined and impulsive. He doesn't allow fear to distract him from his dreams, and drives forward with full force. He is ambitious, but his audaciousness can keep him from thinking anything through. When we take action toward our goals, it's important that we also slow down and pay attention. When the Prince/Knight of Wands appears in a reading, he asks us to trust our intuition. We are advised to move forward with our creative projects with both passion and caution; we must balance our dreams with reality, so that we're not swept away by fantasy.
Sandalwood essential oil is beyond sacred. It is the second most expensive wood on the planet. Simply scattering sandalwood creates an instant sacred space. When we anoint the body we are, in essence, anointing the temple, and sandalwood oil is a perfect choice for anointment because it is so deeply spiritual. It has been used for at least 4,000 years. Many ancient temples and sacred objects, such as rosaries and staffs, are made from this wood. The aroma of sandalwood can transport you to another realm through scent associations. It has the ability to bypass the conscious mind to access the subconscious, which makes it ideal for shamanic work. Sandalwood calms the mind and alleviates worry by relaxing the central nervous system. It is particularly powerful during meditation, allowing you to embrace spiritual peacefulness and relaxation. Sandalwood oil is healing, grounding, and fiercely protective.
Weekly Journal – Are you brave enough to ask for what you want?
Fear is a shapeshifter – it can take on many forms. Fear is healthy, because it can act as a compass. It assures us that we love, care, and are wise enough to react to situations that can potentially be dangerous. However, when you allow fear to paralyze your life choices, you give birth to the monster of many faces. Fear preys on your insecurities. It corners you, inhibiting you from living your truth; damaging relationships and potential growth. When you are timid, you allow others to take advantage of your kindness and complacency because of your lack of subjective justification. You don't ask for what you rightly deserve; you don't believe you are worth what you seek, and your self-awareness starts to fade, making it difficult for you to set goals or work projects through to conclusion. When you are bold, alert, and focused, you can make a difference – not just in your spiritual development, but in your physical world…our physical world. When you have faith, and when you are brave enough to listen to your deepest desires, all the forces around you will conspire to help you. You must not be afraid of chaos or failure – be afraid of the fear that will inhibit you from being your most radiant self. You will never be more beautiful than when your unrestricted soul illuminates throughout your being. Are you brave enough to ask for what you want?


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An International Handbook
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1st edition 2005, 384 pages
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The concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) – the ability to perceive, express, understand, and regulate emotions – is still the subject of scientific debate despite its intuitive appeal and widespread popular interest in areas such as human resources, education, and organizational psychology. This book brings together leading experts from around the world to present their perspectives on the current status of EI. It covers theories of EI and assessment approaches in depth, as well as theoretical concepts and research findings on the antecedents and consequences of EI in occupational, educational, and clinical settings. The contributions provide an overview of the empirical evidence that supports (as well as contradicts) many common assumptions about EI and its relation to other forms of intelligence. The book thus reflects the diverse approaches to finding solutions for the still unresolved conceptual and empirical problems, and offers a critical appraisal of the current status of EI. "For those seeking a clear review of past research and an unambiguous delineation of the goals of future research on EI, this book will be welcomed."
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"...a useful handbook for researchers around the world who are interested in the topic. Researchers interested in any aspect of EI are likely to find a wealth of relevant references. The summary tables in Chapter 9 will be particularly useful for anyone looking for information concerning the broad range of measures that have been used to assess EI. The book would appear to be most useful to advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars committed to the scientific study of EI."
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Like so many of you, I just finished hanging out with my family for the holiday. Our tribe spent time in Palm Springs, California. Not only was it the annual feast of all things turkey, it was also my mom's 70th birthday, and the real reason for our family celebration.
It took my two younger brothers and myself a year to find a week we could all agree on, it took my mom almost as long to decide on the perfect destination, but we worked together and compromised to make her wish come to life.
One of the many things I enjoyed during our trip was a number of interesting conversations revolving around how my brothers and I (raised by the same mom and dad) are now choosing to raise our kids.
One such back and forth was between my brother Paul any myself with regard to how we expect our kids to address other adults (like our friends). For example, my brother and his wife Therese (who is, coincidentally, also my husband's sister...) expect their three children to greet all of the adults in their lives with a proper title, such as Mr. or Mrs. and their last name.
I know I have several friends who expect and practice the same thing.
Tom and I, on the other hand, don't. Our kids generally call our friends (or other adults), by their first name, or occasionally by Mr. or Ms. and then a first name. Like, Ms. Jeannette, who is the mother of my daughter's friend Sydney.
Or Mr. Fred, our older neighbor, who graciously collected in our newspaper while we were away.
Now, we (as in my two brothers and myself) were definitely raised to address all adults by the title of Mr or Mrs and their last name. In fact, for Paul and myself it was super weird when we got married to our spouses, going from calling our parents' best friends Mr. and Mrs. Muench for so many years, to calling them Skip and Loretta. Twenty-three years later it actually still feels a little strange to me...oddly disrespectful on some level I guess, based on how I was raised.
(Yes, I just told you not only is my brother married to my husband's sister, but our parents were best friends for many, many years...in fact, we all lived together in the same townhouse at one point, but that's a different story).
Yet, Tom and I have never really asked our kids to attach a proper formal title, followed by last name, to any adult.
And, neither Tom nor I ever subscribed our kids follow the whole southern tradition of "Yes ma'am, Yes sir", which seems way too uptight to me.
Maybe it is because when someone calls me Mrs Muench I will immediately say, "Please call me Kim or Ms. Kim if you like, when you call me Mrs. Muench it makes me feel old."
Because it does. And even though everyday I am getting closer to old, I don't necessarily want to be reminded of it.
Paul finds the practice of a formal Mr. and Mrs. a much needed sign of respect. To me, a first name keeps us all on a more level playing field.
Another difference between Paul, and both Rob (my youngest brother) and myself is the fact that even though all three of us attended private, Catholic school from 1-12th grade (as did Tom and Therese), Paul and Therese are the only couple carrying on this tradition.
One night during our vacation we got to talking about the differences in the high schools our kids attend. Paul's son goes to an all-boys private school of about 1,100 students. My son Brigham attends the local public school of about 4,500 students. Jake has 3+ hours of homework to struggle through each night, and a 30 minute commute to and from his school. Brigham drives five minutes (if he's lucky) and only as a senior am I really seeing him have to spend time on school work. And honestly, as much as I love him, I'd be hard pressed to tell you exactly what Brig's classes are right now...except tennis, that I know he plays fourth period everyday of his 90-minute block schedule. Conversely, Paul attended the same high school his son is currently enrolled in, knows his son's coursework well, and may even still see a lot of the same teachers walking the hallways.
The point is this...the three of us were raised by the same two parents, experienced similar (but for gender of high school) education/religious instruction/social circles and yet we are parenting our kids, in many ways, differently.
No one way is better, or right as opposed to wrong, we simply take a variety of approaches to the task. Any why would we assume we would parent exactly the same way? After all, even though we had the same parents and home life, each one of us experienced them from our own unique perspective.
The important thing, as we roll into another season of family get-togethers, is we appreciate what each brings to the table and we understand parenting is a tough job in which we're all doing the best we can with what we know.
And the most beautiful thing...our kids (nine of ten grandkids made the trip), who don't see one another more than about once a year, and don't talk in between, are able to pick up where they left off without skipping a beat. Ranging in age from 3 to 22, they all had a great time playing games, swimming, hiking, talking and hanging out with one another.
And so did the adults.
Here's to looking past the little differences and cooperating for the greater good!


After the Super Bowl, I watched a show called Undercover Boss. The president and COO of Waste Management, Larry O'Donnell, spent a week working within the company, doing a variety of tasks while not letting anyone know his actual identity. He worked as a porta potty scrubber, trash collector, sorter of recyclables, and even got fired for the first time in his life. Through this process, he was able to see his company in a new light, gain fresh ideas regarding policies and procedures, and developed relationships with employees he likely would have never met otherwise.
1. Be willing to serve anonymously. To desire credit is to give in to pride.
2. Be aware that there are no lowly jobs. Christ served others humbly, and often behind closed doors.
3. Be generous with our praise for others. None of us work alone. Brag on the family.
4. Know our strengths. Be mindful that we all have a distinct and individually-crafted part to play, so it is important to find the area of service God had in mind when He designed us. Dr. Ergun Caner once said that a call from God is for a specific PLACE, TIME, and TASK. God equips each of us differently.
5. Be open to new methods. "That's the way we've always done it" is NOT a reason to continue doing something. As Perry Noble says, the church in the book of Acts had to change radically how it did things when its membership went from 12 to 10,000+.
Mr. O'Donnell learned from his experience. So can we.