Now, in the span of about 24 hours, all four living former first ladies have added their voices to the chorus of public critique, calling the practice “immoral,” “disgraceful” and a “humanitarian crisis.” ...
Daily Archives: June 19, 2018
‘Hopefully, they’ll get you to her’: Texas judge can’t promise migrant families they’ll be reunited
As a judge began sentencing more than six dozen immigrants for illegal entry on Monday, one woman spoke up to ask: “What’s going to happen to my daughter?” ...
Watch the U.S. Turn Away Asylum Seekers at the Border
But now, the Trump administration is taking steps to prevent them from finding safety in the U.S. On June 11, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled that the U.S. would no longer accept gang violence or domestic abuse as v ...
Photos: A Tent City for Detained Children in Texas
A quickly erected tent city inside the facility is currently set up with 450 beds, according to NBC reporting, but is built for expansion. At the moment, it is unclear how many children are being held in Tornillo, but Re ...
This Mom’s Story Proves the White House Lied About Family Separation at the Border
“This administration did not create a policy of separating families at the border,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said from the White House on Monday. ...
Who’s Defending Family Separation at the Border and Who’s Condemning It
Other reports surfaced of frightened and distressed children being held in “cages.” (The Trump administration has contested the use of the term, while admitting to it being technically correct.) And on Monday, protests o ...
Conservatives’ anti-immigration fervor is political: They think keeping America white will save them
On Monday, in a courtroom in Wichita, a federal judge told Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach that he had so blatantly violated federal discovery rules in a case he argued, defending a law requiring voters to prove th ...
Immigrant families face new threat to children’s health: Uncertainty
Before dawn, the quiet coastal community of Live Oak, California, exploded with noise. Sandy Beck, a teacher who has lived in the neighborhood for nearly 20 years, awoke to the thrum of helicopter blades. Outside, search ...
George Takei: Separation of Immigrant Families at Border ‘Worse’ Than World War II Japanese Internment Camps
“At least during the internment, when I was just 5 years old, I was not taken from my parents,” he wrote in an op-ed for Foreign Policy magazine that was published Tuesday. Takei, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry ...
The sound of children crying for their parents at the border
So begins an excruciating audio clip of children howling for their parents after being separated from them at the US-Mexico border. ...
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