History of Migrant Family Detentions Pt. 2
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 … Continue reading →
History of Migrant Family Detentions Pt. 1
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 … Continue reading →
US Child Brutality Policy in Texas
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 … Continue reading →
Auschwitz America
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 … Continue reading →
Roxana Hernandez Dies in ICE Custody
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 … Continue reading →
DN: Puerto Rico: Planned Collapse
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 … Continue reading →
Umair Haque: Why America is the First Poor Rich Country
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 … Continue reading →
UN: US is Violating Human Rights
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/united-nations-u-s-is-violating-human-rights-1249135171882 MSNBC, Lawrence O’Donnell, The Last Word: “At the order of President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, children are separated at the border from their parents and are … Continue reading →
Children in Cages, Concentration Camps
twitter.com/jeffmerkley/status/1004182037132136449 Sen. Jeff Merkely (Dem) Oregon, visited a border detention center in McAllen, Texas. Families, mothers with babies, and children separated from their parents were kept in cages; toddlers as … Continue reading →
7 to 2: No Cake for You, Faggot
Masterpiece Cakeshop LTD. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission… The United States Supreme Court has just ruled that it is LEGAL for the owner of a private business, otherwise open to … Continue reading →
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