Two of the biggest think tanks in Democratic politics, the centrist Third Way and the more liberal Center for American Progress, have come together to tell Democrats to pipe down about immigration, because bringing the Trump administration’s unbearable cruelty to light might lose them a couple of votes that were…
Remember how the policy of separating families at the border worked out so well for the Trump administration last time? All of those harrowing pictures, videos, and sounds from what some critics dubbed Trump’s “baby jails?” Kirstjen Nielsen getting chased out of a restaurant? Allegations of abuse? The evidence that…
A troubling report by Vice News yesterday documented the shaky method being used by the U.S. government to determine whether unaccompanied minors that arrive at the border are really children or whether they should be placed in immigration jails for adults. It’s a horrifying new case study in how our government…
Today, the New Yorker published an absolute gut-punch of a story describing how Helen, a 5-year-old child from Honduras, was taken from her family and convinced to sign away her rights to an important judicial hearing, then swept into a complicated bureaucratic system that nearly lost her entirely.
Brett Kavanaugh obviously hasn’t heard of playing it cool during your first week at a new job—during oral arguments on Wednesday, the newest member of the Supreme Court established himself as the strictest person in the room, defending a 1996 federal law that requires the government to detain any immigrants who had…
The migrant detention facilities in Southern Arizona are overflowing, and in response, ICE is abruptly releasing hundreds of detained asylum-seekers onto the streets with no institutional support other than a location-tracking ankle monitor, according to a new report by NBC News.
An Argentinian man who has lived in the U.S. for 18 years is set to be deported, despite being in the process of applying for a marriage-based green card, after ICE agents reportedly tricked him into thinking they were friendly strangers returning his lost wallet as a pretense to arrest him.
AMARILLO, TEXAS—The Democratic candidate for Congress in the most Republican congressional district in America does not stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Ever. Nor does he wear an American flag lapel pin. Ever. He prefers a small golden pin of the Constitution, etched with the phrase “We The People.” “I don’t have…
Tucker Carlson is no stranger to white nationalist talking points, and tonight he didn’t disappoint. The Fox anchor hosts America’s third-largest cable news show, and on Monday night he used that platform to alert his audiences to the dangers of liberals who support white genocide.
Last weekend, the Trump administration finally released the text of a proposed rule that would make it harder for immigrants to gain legal status if they use most public benefits, including Medicaid and food stamps. The policy, spearheaded by Stephen Miller and known as the “public charge” rule, has already been…
As Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen has gone to great lengths to pretend that the government agency she runs had nothing to do with Trump’s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents at the border. But according to a memo that Nielsen personally signed, she was fully aware of the policy…
The U.S. government can not provide the whereabouts of nearly 1,500 children who entered the U.S. alone this year, according to the New York Times. These are not the 1,475 children who were separated from their families at the border by ICE and subsequently lost. No, this is an entirely new group of immigrant children…
President Trump will set the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. next year to 30,000, the lowest ever, according to the New York Times. The refugee cap for this year was 45,000, which was already a dramatic cut from the average of 75,000 under the Obama administration. Obama, rather than setting a ceiling, set a…
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent suspected of being a serial killer was arrested early Saturday morning and accused of killing four women in the Laredo, TX, area.
Even after the release of hundreds of children separated from their parents under President Trump’s zero-tolerance border policy, there are still more migrant children in detention than at any other time in our country’s history, according to the New York Times. There are five times as many children in detention as…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions angered immigration judges today by giving them unwanted advice on how to handle their cases, according to Buzzfeed News. In a speech given to 44 new judges in Virginia, Sessions explicitly called for the new recruits to fight back against immigration lawyers.
A cache of confidential documents obtained by ProPublica Illinois provide a grim window into life inside nine federally funded Heartland Human Care Services youth immigration shelters in the Chicago area. The internal documents shed light on the mental and physical health of children held in the shelters over the last…
Trump administration officials last year ignored an internal report that found refugees do not pose a national security risk, former senior officials told NBC News. Officials within the administration then released their own report, which NBC’s sources say exaggerated and misrepresented the claims against refugees.
The Trump administration’s assault on the poor and on immigrants are distinct campaigns to exacerbate the suffering and cruelty already doled out by the government to marginalized groups—campaigns that often intersect. Politico reported yesterday that one policy proposal aimed at both groups—making it more difficult…
It’s a predictable but no less shameful part of the way the news media works that the urgency and quantity of human suffering in a news story isn’t proportionate to the amount of coverage it gets and that, over time, even stories that have been covered well will slip out of dominant placement in national news. Such is…
