Saturday, July 19, 2025

Tag: immigration

Reports of inhuman treatment at border facilities prompts judge to order...

“I need to appoint an independent monitor to give me an objective viewpoint about what is going on at the facilities.”

“Brutal and sadistic”: Noam Chomsky on family separation & the U.S....

More than 400 parents have been deported back to their home countries while their children remain in U.S. custody in facilities scattered across the United States.

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 27, 2018

What you need to know about the Democratic Socialists of America, as Trump Administration misses family reunification deadline, children protest "horrific" immigration policy, and more.

Despite today’s court-ordered deadline, more than 900 migrant children remain separated...

The government admits at least 900 children have yet to be reunited, and some 463 separated parents have been deported – even as their children remain in U.S. detention centers.

ICE: The making of an American Gestapo

The depth and breadth of outrage against the brutal treatment of migrant and refugee families by ICE has even extended into the agency itself.

Migrant children detained in shelters being drugged, told not to hug,...

This comes as advocates say some migrant children have been released from federally contracted shelters with scabies and lice.

‘Primary every single one of them:’ 18 Democrats join GOP to...

Denouncing the resolution as a political stunt by the Republican majority, 133 House Democrats opted to vote "present" instead of yes or no.

Psychologists: Migrant parents reunited with detained children must brace for trauma...

The trauma children are experiencing in detention “freezes them in time” and takes away their ability to express themselves.

Trump’s policy agenda is an all-out war on kids

What we’re witnessing at our border is one part of a war against all children – whether by cuts to schools, child nutrition, health care, safe air and water, or family-supporting jobs.

A baby was separated from her uncle at the border. Three...

Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya has spent the three months since Liah was taken into U.S. custody trying to get her daughter released from foster care for unaccompanied immigrant children.

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Trump turns on MAGA over Epstein files as transparency backlash grows

Trump once capitalized on Epstein conspiracy theories to galvanize his base. Now, facing demands for accountability, he lashes out at the very supporters who helped propel him back into power.

Sanders pushes ‘Pensions for All’ to confront corporate greed and America’s retirement crisis

With nearly half of older workers having no retirement savings, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces sweeping legislation to guarantee all Americans the same pension security enjoyed by members of Congress.

Vermont installs beaver-saving, flood-preventing device

Beaver deceivers are known to be "humane infrastructure designed to regulate water levels while allowing beavers to remain in place."

20 states sue Trump administration for ending FEMA disaster mitigation program

Democratic-led states say canceling the BRIC program violates federal law and endangers communities preparing for floods, fires, and other climate disasters.

House Republicans move to block EPA action on toxic PFAS in farm fertilizers

A provision in the latest GOP spending bill would halt enforcement of an EPA risk assessment warning that sewage sludge fertilizer contaminates farmland with cancer-linked forever chemicals.