Tag: border patrol
Refusing to hide: Migrants find power in caravans
No longer willing to collude in their oppression, Central Americans are coming to the U.S. in the open and en masse.
Government could hold migrant families indefinitely in unlicensed detention centers under...
New Trump administration regulations would dismantle the landmark Flores agreement and allow authorities to release children only to a parent or legal guardian – even if those adult guardians are detained.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 17
U.S. Border Patrol supervisor confesses to executing four women, FEMA blames hurricane deaths on spousal abuse, Kavanaugh accused of assault, and more.
Horror at TX detention center: ICE guards separate fathers & sons...
Authorities appear to have reseparated the parents and sons as retaliation for organizing a nonviolent protest.
Families at the border are reunited briefly, if at all
I believe that for the families that remain separated, the likelihood of reunification may grow remote.
Reports of inhuman treatment at border facilities prompts judge to order...
“I need to appoint an independent monitor to give me an objective viewpoint about what is going on at the facilities.”
‘Primary every single one of them:’ 18 Democrats join GOP to...
Denouncing the resolution as a political stunt by the Republican majority, 133 House Democrats opted to vote "present" instead of yes or no.
Trump’s policy agenda is an all-out war on kids
What we’re witnessing at our border is one part of a war against all children – whether by cuts to schools, child nutrition, health care, safe air and water, or family-supporting jobs.
Calls to abolish ICE were everywhere at the massive March Against...
As tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, many marchers joined the growing demand to defund and dismantle ICE.
Asylum seekers on US-Mexico border are waiting for days in the...
Democracy Now! went to the international bridge in Brownsville, Texas, and found asylum seekers waiting for days in the hot sun after being told the United States was full.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...
Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of war
A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.
El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary after AIPAC’s super PAC spends a record $30.6 million
Outside groups supplied 88 percent of the money spent on the Democratic side of a contest AdImpact ranks as the third most expensive Senate primary in US history.