Of all the ways the federal government has chosen to respond (or not) to mass shootings in the United States, perhaps none is quite as disheartening as a new program to be sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security, which will essentially train high schoolers to become battlefield triage medics in the case of…
The Department of Justice informed the American Civil Liberties Union in a court filing on Thursday that it, not the government, should take responsibility for finding parents who were separated from their children at the border and then deported. Uhhhhh.
The Trump administration has made it easier for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to immediately deny visa applications if there is missing or inaccurate information.
Jeh Johnson was the Secretary of Homeland Security under Barack Obama for the majority of Obama’s second term, a position from which he oversaw ICE. As Jorge Rivas pointed out for this website in June, Johnson has been flexing is commentary muscles by calling the Trump deportation regime “un-American and ineffective,”…
Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen made a round of visits to immigrant detention centers in South Texas last week, where detainees reportedly “desperately wanted to speak with Nielsen.” Instead, Nielsen and her staff reportedly avoided both detainees and reporters, which kind of makes you wonder what the…
After weeks of fierce protests and increasing calls for the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, it seems as though the Department of Homeland Security is once again catching on to the idea that terrorizing and detaining some of the most vulnerable people is maybe not the best look.
The idea of abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has quickly gained steam on the Democratic left, with both candidates and, increasingly, incumbent House and Senate Democrats jumping on the bandwagon. But not everyone is on board with the idea, and by “not everyone,” I mean the Serious People who…
As calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency grow louder with each passing day, the movement to get rid of one of President Donald Trump’s most effective tools for terrorizing immigrant communities has gained a surprising group of semi-allies: ICE agents.
Former ICE spokesman James Schwab sat down with CBS News on Wednesday to discuss his decision to leave the agency after what he claimed was a request by his bosses to “perpetuate misleading facts” about the effects of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s warning to immigrants that a government raid was pending.
Former Obama Education Secretary Arne Duncan this weekend posted what is by far the worst entry yet in the Civility Take Olympics, which sprung up in the wake of Sarah Huckabee Sanders being refused service at a Lexington, VA, restaurant. It is truly horrific. I take no pleasure in reporting this.
After a week of stressing that the White House’s self-imposed policy of separating undocumented minors from their parents is a “law” (it’s not) that only Congress can fix, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to sign an executive action that would keep immigrant families together—albeit in prisons,…
As President Donald Trump digs in his heels over his policy of forcibly separating undocumented children from their parents at the U.S. border, one Guatemalan asylum-seeker isn’t waiting for Washington to hash out a possible legislative fix to this White House-manufactured crisis: She’s taking the Trump administration…
Folks, we’ve got a big one for you here: Kirstjen Nielsen, secretary of Homeland Security and woman who cuts you in line at a suburban Panera Bread while somehow still blaming you, told yet another whopper yesterday during her shameful press briefing. Can you believe it!!
Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, possibly in response to a callout from GOP senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins today, tweeted out a demonstrably false statement about the Trump administration’s family separation policy this evening: that it does not exist.
In an interview on Tuesday with the conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt, sadistic elf Jeff Sessions emphasized there’s no one to blame for his policy of actively tearing undocumented immigrant children—including infants and toddlers—away from their parents but the parents themselves.
The ACLU published a report on Wednesday alleging a series of horrific instances of child abuse and neglect by Customs and Border Protection officials culled from five years of official Department of Homeland Security documents—all written during the Obama administration.
American officials have apologized to a Canadian politician after he revealed he was stopped and forced to remove his turban at a Detroit airport last year.
After months of grueling travel from Central America and through Mexico, some 200 members of the refugee caravan of immigrants fleeing Central American violence finally arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday.
Federal officials admitted on Thursday that hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children placed into foster care with sponsor parents have essentially gone missing over the past year.
Donald Trump’s plan to kill off DACA just hit another snag.
