Tag: immigrants
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, October 10
Judge throws out felony charges against climate deniers, the top immigrant-friendly cities in the United States, Nikki Haley resigns as UN ambassador, and more.
Trump admin. sends 1,600 kids to Texas tent city as number...
“We have more children in detention now than ever before.”
Here’s what happened to the 99 immigrant children separated from their...
Confidential records reveal details about struggles to find parents and traumatic experiences during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance crackdown.
Trump administration’s new immigration plan will detain families entering US illegally...
The new regulation would likely "lead to the detention of thousands of families apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, by eliminating extra legal protections for children who arrive with their parents."
Government should pay for migrant families’ mental health services, lawsuit says
“These mental health services cannot be provided in the same slipshod manner as the government implemented its initial trauma inducing policy.”
US cities issue IDs to protect undocumented immigrants
A growing number of communities have implemented municipal identification programs, and not just in politically progressive areas.
Worker charged with sexually molesting eight children at immigrant shelter
The allegations against the Southwest Key youth care worker are the latest in a series of serious accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 10, 2018
U.S. Army discharges immigrant recruits that were promised citizenship, who really is Trump's Supreme Court pick, military contractor used Arizona “black site” to secretly jail dozens of migrant children,and more.
Investigation: Substandard medical care in ICE detention is killing immigrants, endangering...
"ICE, the agency that’s detaining now 40,000 people… and wants to expand, cannot provide adequately for the safety of the people that it holds.”
Refugee women use their voices through digital storytelling
These dialogues show protagonists’ strengths and hopes, and these are the elements of the stories that remain with us long after watching their digital stories.
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Plastic is poisoning the soil that grows our food
New research finds agricultural land holds 23 times more microplastics than oceans, with toxic particles infiltrating crops, ecosystems, and human bodies while global regulation lags behind.
The richest Republicans in Congress push tax cuts for themselves while slashing food, healthcare,...
A new report reveals 35 of the wealthiest GOP lawmakers—worth over $2.5 billion—stand to profit from Trump’s tax cuts while their constituents lose access to SNAP, Medicaid, and student aid.
NOAA: 2025 Atlantic hurricane season predicted to be above normal with 13 to 19...
NOAA predicts a 60 percent chance of it being “above normal,” a 30 percent chance of it being near normal and a 10 percent chance that it will be below normal.
The forgotten 10 billion lives: A tale of suffering, survival, and the fight to...
Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.
Trump pledged to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ then cut a program many tribes rely...
The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.