Most of this varsity boys team hails from immigrant families. This season, they learned to live and play as a team against the backdrop of a nationwide immigration crackdown.
Students and families affected by school shootings have long sought a voice in the nation’s debate over responses to gun violence. This close-knit group in Minneapolis says they owe it to their kids to keep trying.
“The thing that’s going to stick with me,” said Shea McAdaragh, a parent who witnessed the shooting, “was when I said you guys can get up, and I knew some kids weren’t going to get up.”
The politics of President Trump’s immigration crackdown hits differently in deeply red Kandiyohi County, where growth is fueled largely by immigration.
In a jailhouse interview with the New York Post, Vance Boelter alludes to information in the case he says “will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves.”