Understanding The Administration’s Monstrous Immigration Policies by Brianna Rennix https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/06/understanding-the-administrations-monstrous-immigration-policies Regular readers of Current Affairs will know that I usually have a lot to say about immigration. Regular readers of the news generally will know that a lot of bad stuff has happened with immigration over the past week or so. An article was inevitable! Here… Read More History of Migrant Family Detentions Pt. 2

I’m posting two articles that explain how a web of immigration laws, policies and practices that go back decades set the stage for the Trump administration to take children away from migrant families at the border and detain them in cages. And yes, it involves both Democrats and Republicans, beginning with Bill Clinton, who signed… Read More History of Migrant Family Detentions Pt. 1

What’s Really Happening When Asylum-Seeking Families Are Separated? An expert on helping parents navigate the asylum process describes what she’s seeing on the ground. Katy VineJune 15, 2018 Originally published in Texas Monthly Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. The… Read More US Child Brutality Policy in Texas

Trauma at the Texas-Mexico Border: Families Separated, Children Detained & Residents Fighting Back Democracy Now covers the outrage at the US Customs Border Patrol practice of separating children from their parents at the Mexican border. We look at growing outrage over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families who cross the U.S.-Mexico border, many… Read More Auschwitz America

Transgender woman in migrant caravan dies in ICE custody She was cold, lacked adequate food or medical care, and was held in a cell with the lights turned on 24 hours a day, the groups said. They called the detention center an “ice box.” (CNN) — A transgender woman who traveled to the United States… Read More Roxana Hernandez Dies in ICE Custody

DN: We look at Puerto Rico as it continues to recover from Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island last September. Researchers at Harvard recently revealed the death toll from Hurricane Maria may be a staggering 70 times higher than the official count. The official death toll still stands at 64, but the new study estimates… Read More DN: Puerto Rico: Planned Collapse

Or, How American Collapse is Made of a New Kind of Poverty umair haqueMay 23 Consider the following statistics. The average American can’t scrape together $500 for an emergency. A third of Americans can’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare. Healthcare for a family now costs $28k — about half of median income, which is $60k. By themselves, of… Read More Umair Haque: Why America is the First Poor Rich Country