Tag: asylum seekers
DHS is locking immigrants in solitary confinement
Immigration detention is expensive, inhumane and unnecessary.
Data defies Trump’s claims that refugees and asylees burden taxpayers
What is the economic impact of refugees in the near and long term (transition time between needing assistance and adding to the economy)?
Trump threatens sanctuary cities with more undocumented immigrants; politicians welcome his...
"Let's not concede that having refugees in our cities is something to be threatened by."
Noam Chomsky: Members of migrant caravan are fleeing from misery &...
"Now people are fleeing from the misery and horrors for which we are responsible."
8-year-old Guatemalan boy dies in border patrol custody days after high...
Felipe Gomez Alonzo died in New Mexico on Christmas Eve, after being detained since Dec. 18.
‘This must end. Now.:’ 8-year-old boy dies in US border patrol...
"A reminder that, yes, this is who the U.S. is. The U.S. is a country that murders children both directly and indirectly in a myriad of ways."
Justice for Jakelin: Lawmakers demand answers in death of 7-year-old girl...
Outrage is mounting as lawmakers demand answers for the conditions that led Jakelin Caal Maquín to die after being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Grandmothers bring food and comfort to asylum seekers at bus stations
“Sometimes it is necessary to do the right thing, to heal a broken world.”
Trump administration’s new immigration plan will detain families entering US illegally...
The new regulation would likely "lead to the detention of thousands of families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, by eliminating extra legal protections for children who arrive with their parents."
Progressive Briefing for Friday, August 10, 2018
Trump rule would give $2.5 billion tax cut to big bank fat cats, Judge blocks Trump administration from deporting asylum seekers, Argentina Senate votes against legalizing abortion, and more.
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DNC will not host climate-specific presidential primary debate and plans to punish candidates that...
"The DNC is silencing the voices of Democratic activists, many of our progressive partner organizations, and nearly half of the Democratic presidential field, who want to debate the existential crisis of our time."
No justice: Prosecutors throw out charges in Flint water crisis
“Words cannot express how disappointed I am that justice continues to be delayed and denied to the people of my city."
The year of the Green New Deal
Offering hope for a better future over the rage in vogue on the right, motivating young people to vote and getting more citizens to organize in their communities is how we will win.
Trump wants to make Alaska’s protected wilderness a hunting ground
The Trump administration has shown a penchant for supplicating itself to trophy hunters and trappers.
‘Corruption in plain sight:’ Jared Kushner firm took in $90 million from unnamed foreign...
"It was one of the only assets that Kushner retained and it continues to collect foreign investors without transparency."
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