Tag: Homeland Security
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.
200 DHS employees accepted nearly $15M in bribes
Responsible for guarding more than 7,000 miles of the border, customs agents and Border Patrol officers accepted the most bribes within the last ten years.
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Ultimate rightwing transgression: the mockery of politics as a preposterous joke
The Big Lie is "yoked to an older deception, without which it could not survive: the idea that American politics is a joke," attackable without consequences.
Tax the rich? We did that once
A little history might just inspire us to try that taxing again.
Does Elon Musk have a right to destroy Twitter?
Do we really think that the super-wealthy should be allowed to control so much wealth and wield so much influence?
Right-wing SCOTUS majority signals support for anti-LGBTQ+ reactionaries
"It does not bode well for the future of civil rights law that Gorsuch believes a state imposes 'reeducation training' on employers when it reminds them how to comply with nondiscrimination rules," said one court observer.
Puerto Rican cities sue fossil fuel companies in major class-action, climate fraud case
Municipalities aim to hold industry liable for damages from catastrophic 2017 hurricanes.