Tag: immigration
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on why she wants to abolish ICE and upend...
In an interview, the left primary challenger discusses everything from how Democrats have failed to protect working class interests to the need for a Marshall plan for Puerto Rico and why her democratic socialist message is catching on.
Private companies get rich off of Trump administration’s controversial policy that...
A recent Yahoo News report revealed that through federal government contracts private companies are receiving millions of dollars to provide housing and additional services to migrant children.
15 actions that can shut down Trump’s assault on immigrant families
Simply put, Trump’s plan is ethnic cleansing. Here are things you can do to help.
ICE detention is ‘soul-destroying:’ Eritrean immigrant dies by suicide during deportation
Friends and family are demanding to know why he was deported to Eritrea, despite his fears that he would be tortured or even killed there.
Trump supporters furious at Wikileaks for posting database of ICE agents...
“ICEPatrol is an important public resource for understanding ICE programs and increasing accountability, especially in light of the extreme actions taken by ICE lately, such as the separation of children and parents at the US border.”
‘No justice, no sleep!’ protesters blare audio of crying detained children...
"There's a child snatcher living in Alexandria, Virginia."
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.”
Inhumanity at the border – and beyond
If the Trump administration can show such disregard for society’s most vulnerable people, what does that mean for clean water, endangered species and other environmental issues?
Trump ends administration’s policy of separation of children from migrant families...
Trump's "sudden surrender" is being equated to condemnation from human rights groups calling the Trump administration's policy "egregious practices."
Progressive Briefing for Friday, June 22, 2018
Bernie Sanders on income inequality, police shoot a fleeing 17-year-old in Pittsburgh, white supremacists plan more rallies, and more.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.