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Tag: border patrol

A children’s Gitmo on the border

It's time to do what we have failed to do for so long now: push back hard on the truly un-American policies.

For immigrant children, empathy is not enough

These children deserve our tears, too.

ICE detention is ‘soul-destroying:’ Eritrean immigrant dies by suicide during deportation

Friends and family are demanding to know why he was deported to Eritrea, despite his fears that he would be tortured or even killed there.

‘This is what solidarity looks like:’ Mass demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport...

"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them."

Democratic lawmakers join family separation protests at detention centers from Texas...

Protests have erupted nationwide against the Trump administration’s new policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Six dictators who divided children from parents

Separating children from their families has been characteristic of the biggest dictators of the modern era.

Border Patrol SUV hits Native American man on video

“We do not tolerate misconduct on or off duty and will fully cooperate with all investigations of alleged unlawful conduct by our personnel.”

Progressive Briefing for Monday, June 18, 2018

Separating families at the border, the Poor People's Campaign, Republicans and the NRA fight against gun regulations, and more.

Returning Home to the US Is to Enter a Police State

Is our behavior as U.S. citizens being monitored and, if we do things that the government finds bothersome, we will be questioned and monitored further? Here is Dave Lindorff's account of crossing into the U.S. police state after a short vacation.

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The country Trump seems dead set on imitating

The Trump administration has begun offering wealthy foreigners the chance to emigrate to the U.S. if they fork over $5 million for a so-called gold card—an alternative to the “green card.”

Hundreds dead from hunger in Gaza as Netanyahu vows to empty the strip

As children die from hunger and medicine shortages, global outrage mounts over what critics call a campaign of extermination in Gaza, enabled by U.S. policy and a vision of forced displacement.

Elon Musk has the blood of 19 Kentuckians on his hands

DOGE cuts are killing Americans.

Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ slashes healthcare and food aid while delivering massive tax cuts...

New CBO analysis confirms steep losses for poorest Americans under GOP-backed plan as Medicaid, SNAP, and public programs are gutted to fund tax cuts for the top 1 percent.

States can take meaningful climate action, even without federal support: Study

The team also found that there was potential for state efforts to impact pollution in neighboring states.