Tag: DHS
Media ignore criticism of DHS’s new ‘disinformation’ board—unless it’s from the...
The board’s stated mission would be to address “disinformation spread by foreign states such as Russia, China and Iran,” as well as “transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling organizations.”
Trump wanted to withhold wildfire aid to California over political differences,...
"Californians endured the deadliest wildfire in our state's history last year. We should work together to mitigate these fires by combating climate change, not play politics by threatening to withhold money from survivors of a deadly natural disaster."
Former Acting Inspector General for DHS indicted on fraud and theft...
From October 2014 to April 2017, Edwards, his former subordinate, Murali Yamazula Venkata, and other government employees reportedly stole the personal data of nearly 250,000 DHS employees.
DHS is locking immigrants in solitary confinement
Immigration detention is expensive, inhumane and unnecessary.
Below the surface of ICE: The corporations profiting from immigrant detention
Activists are targeting the companies that make ICE run.
Trump ends administration’s policy of separation of children from migrant families...
Trump's "sudden surrender" is being equated to condemnation from human rights groups calling the Trump administration's policy "egregious practices."
Trump’s war on children is an act of state terrorism
The time has come for the American public to make clear that resistance to the emerging fascism in the United States is not an option.
Why abolishing ICE is good climate policy
The war on terror has unleashed unspeakable cruelty. We must not rely on its institutions to fix the climate crisis.
Myths and facts: Trump’s separation of families and detention of children...
Media Matters has gathered and debunked the most common strains of misinformation attempting to whitewash the cruel and unusual practice.
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.”
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.