Tag: immigration
How a small town in Iowa freed local workers from ICE...
It was the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in the state since 2008.
Melania Trump’s parents obtain U.S. citizenship via chain migration
“I guess when it’s Melania’s Family, it’s ‘family reunification’ and should be applauded. Everybody else, it’s ‘chain migration’ and must be stopped.”
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.
Statue of infamy
Give me your tired and your poor, so I can put them in a concentration camp.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 1, 2018
ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse, Trump tweaks capital gains to benefit the rich, US deports parents but keeps their children, and more.
ICE served eviction notice in Syracuse: At least 10 arrested in...
Nearly filling the lobby nine activists, most of with who were wearing "Evict ICE" t-shirts locked arms in front of the hallway that led to the first floor of the building.
Families at the border are reunited briefly, if at all
I believe that for the families that remain separated, the likelihood of reunification may grow remote.
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.
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Ending the American Dream by 2029?
The future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls.
How MAGA changed the world in 2025, and what comes next
Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda.
‘Domestic terrorism’: Leaked DOJ memo targets ‘anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity’
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive.
The dark side of Trump’s moon
A new book sheds light on the "intellectual" underpinnings of the Trump revolution.
Trump plan to dismantle US weather research hub alarms scientists and state officials
A proposal by the Trump administration to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research has sparked warnings from scientists, university leaders, and Colorado officials who say the move could undermine public safety, economic stability, and decades of shared scientific infrastructure.