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Aid Groups: Christian Posturing and Prayer Breakfast

aid groups: Trump's Christian posturing would be laughable if his policies weren't so cruel and often deadly, according to Rabble. Take, for example, asylum-seekers crossing the U.S. southern border. So said President Donald J. Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast last February 7. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing violence in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico. Scott Warren, a geographer and educator who volunteers with the humanitarian aid groups No More Deaths and Ajo Samaritans, is on trial now in federal court in Tucson, Arizona. Increasingly militarized and violent enforcement of border security has driven desperate migrants further from official ports of entry, forcing many to embark on dangerous treks through the scorching deserts of the American Southwest. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.