Pushing back against an explosive "60 Minutes" report about his immigration policies, President Donald Trump revived false claims that downplay his controversial practice of separating immigrant families at the southern ...
Daily Archives: November 27, 2018
If you want to see what failed U.S. immigration policy looks like, visit Tijuana
Originally published by LA Times The invaders awoke in Tijuana slowly and fitfully Monday morning, amid coughs and soft murmurs and the voices of excitable children. I had arrived around sunrise, having walked uncont ...
Border skirmish worsens anxiety for migrants desperate to enter the U.S.: ‘We are still in danger’
Twenty of the asylum seekers — mostly mothers and children — waited along a white fence near the U.S.-Mexico border. ...
THE OCCUPATION
Cranking up the rhetoric on October 31, Trump had told reporters he’d send as many as 10,000 to 15,000 troops. Never mind that the 5,800 soldiers and 2,100 National Guardsman already deployed meant that more troops were ...
Thousands of workers at HHS tent city for migrant children not fingerprinted: report
Approximately 2,000 staff members at a facility in Tornillo, Texas, built to house unaccompanied migrant children are reportedly working without having their fingerprint background checks done by the FBI. ...
Despite restraining order, Trump’s proclamation still bars entry of asylum seekers who cross illegally
The proclamation is based on section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the pertinent part of which reads as follows: Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into ...
Trump’s New Order to Troops on the Border Threatens Our Democratic Norms
Originally published by Slate In the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, President Donald Trump railed against the threat posed by an “invasion” of migrants making their way toward the southern U.S. border. Offe ...
With Zero Evidence, Trump Falsely Claims Migrants at the Border Are “Grabbers,” Not Parents
And he said the tear gas fired on them was “very safe.” ...
US Nixed FBI Checks on Staff at Migrant Teen Detention Camp
More people are detained in Tornillo's tent city than in all but one of the nation's 204 federal prisons, yet construction continues. ...
Congressmen decry detention of immigrant who left church
Two North Carolina congressmen are slamming the Trump administration as “callous” and “cruel” after an immigrant who sought refuge from deportation in a church was arrested after arriving at an appointment with immigrati ...
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