Exactly one week after announcing plans to overhaul the U.S. asylum process to punitively bar certain migrants from claiming asylum, President Donald Trump made it official on Thursday, altering the already sadistic rules by which asylum seekers can—and cannot—enter the U.S.
It’s probably a pretty bad sign when a government warning about armed militias rolling out to the U.S.-Mexico border manages to fly largely under the radar for days, due to the sheer volume of other incredibly bad shit going on elsewhere in the country.
President Trump will send more than 5,000 active duty soldiers to help “harden” the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming days, the Pentagon announced on Monday. The massive deployment is the latest extreme(ly racist) overreaction by the Trump administration to the caravan of several thousand Central American asylum…
To give you a sense of just how fucked up the United States of America is at the moment, allow me to direct your attention to (where else?) Fox News.
Hours after reiterating his call to use military force to halt the caravan of Central American asylum seekers slowly working its way through Mexico toward the United States, multiple reports say that Secretary of Defense James Mattis will order approximately 800 troops to the southern border to act against what he has…
As the latest caravan of Central American asylum seekers inches closer to the United States’ southern border (as of Monday, they were still over 1,000 miles away), Republicans have grown increasingly hysterical (and racist) in their doom and gloom analysis of what this all means for America.
President Donald Trump kicked off his Thursday with an unhinged attack on four separate Central American countries acting, he insisted, at the behest of...congressional Democrats. Oh, and he also threatened to declare martial law in order to entirely shut down the United State’s southern border with Mexico. All before…
On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded two dozen Justice Department guidances issued by past administrations, most of them under Barack Obama, and some of which sought to make life in the United States slightly more navigable for asylum seekers and refugees.
The U.S. government is continuing to use defenseless children as bargaining chips in its all-out assault on undocumented migrants mostly from Central America who are seeking safety and a better life in this country.
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington State visited a federal detention center in her state this weekend and said the mothers she met “could not stop crying.”
Standing alongside Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in the White House Rose Garden, President Donald Trump stoutly defended his history of racism on Monday, insisting that he had “nothing to apologize for” when asked whether an act of contrition toward immigrants might help bolster his administration’s legal…
President Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at a group of Central American asylum seekers traveling to the United States, calling their caravan “a disgrace” and claiming he’d instructed the Department of Homeland Security to bar them from entering the country. (“WALL,” he added.)
