Tag: Department of Homeland Security
DHS is locking immigrants in solitary confinement
Immigration detention is expensive, inhumane and unnecessary.
‘History will judge her:’ DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns after months...
"Nielsen presided over a [DHS] that showed a blatant disregard for our Constitution, civil rights, and human life. History will judge her."
US government spying on journalists and immigration activists
Department of Homeland Security's abusive tactics against innocent U.S. citizens fits right alongside with its historically corrupt sister agencies.
Below the surface of ICE: The corporations profiting from immigrant detention
Activists are targeting the companies that make ICE run.
TSA’s ‘Quiet Skies’ surveillance program receives backlash, DHS to further review...
The surveillance program has air marshals following passengers and recording their behaviors and any other observations providing minute-by-minute updates for reports, which are sent directly to TSA.
Bernie Sanders goes beyond the call to abolish ICE, says America’s...
The "systemic cruelty of the American immigration system" has been around long before Trump.
Sen. Merkley tries to gain access into migrant shelter for kids,...
"We still have no idea what’s happening in the detention center where reportedly up to a thousand children are being held, since they refused the senator’s request to go inside.”
Exploring the shadows of America’s security state
Or how I learned not to love Big Brother.
The State Department suspends Trump’s Muslim ban
The sudden halt of his immigration order has given Trump his first glance as to the limits of his presidential power.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...
The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.