Tag: Homeland Security
House of Representatives impeach Homeland Security secretary
This was the GOP's second attempt to impeach Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas.
Homeland Security listed these climate activists as ‘extremists’ alongside mass killers
"I think there is a strategy that right-wing forces are using to criminalize dissent. This bulletin shows that dirty hand."
Homeland security’s civil rights unit lacks power to stop abuse of...
The children’s lawyer was incensed. Her two tiny clients — one of them blind — had been in a shelter for three...
‘Egregious abuse of power:’ Report says Trump offered pardon to CBP...
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) called it "a textbook example of abuse of power and reckless disregard for the rule of law – and it's no 'joking' matter."
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.
Who polices the immigration police?
Claims of unjust arrests by ICE agents and cops often disappear into an overwhelmed immigration court system.
Welcome to the police state of America for immigrants
The bottom line of his orders is to give permission to ICE and local cops around the country to use their own judgment in enforcing this vague law.
Danger ahead: Trump, Pompeo, the Kochs and the end of diplomacy
Trump says he will rely on his advisors. He has to as he knows nothing about policy, the world, the working class he always goes on about, or government in general.
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States
In fact, our research shows that street protests today are far more numerous and frequent than skeptics might suggest.
It’s time: Boycott America
Name-and-shame tactics don’t work with leaders who have no shame. Grab Trump by the wallet—it’s the only language he understands.
Trump’s policy toward Latin America: Even anti-communist zealots in Miami don’t like it
But just how committed is Trump to fighting communism in Latin America at this particular moment—in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua?
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children—new UN report
The renewed bombing follows repeated violations of the ceasefire terms by Israel.
Millions face delays as Trump administration ends Social Security phone verification
A new policy eliminating phone verification for Social Security benefits threatens to overwhelm field offices, cut off vulnerable recipients, and accelerate efforts to privatize the system.