Tag: immigration
‘This is what solidarity looks like:’ Mass demonstrations at LaGuardia Airport...
"We want to let them know that there are thousands of people who see them, who love them and who will fight for them."
Report from McAllen, Texas: No one knows what will happen now...
"So it might be many months, and in some cases maybe over a year ... before parents before they even get a chance of sponsoring and seeing their children again."
Progressive Briefing for Thursday, June 21, 2018
Trump signs executive order halting family separation policy he created
President Trump signed an executive order halting what has become a notorious family separation policy...
‘That’s pretty pathetic:’ Bernie Sanders on Trump’s immigration policies
"I think that's pretty pathetic, but I think ultimately that's his strategy."
World to refugees: Go to hell
Over 22.5 million people have been forced to flee their countries. Last year, less than 200,000 were resettled.
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, June 20, 2018
U.S. withdraws from Human Rights Council, Canada legalizes recreational marijuana, first ladies unite against family separation at the border, and more.
Trump’s war on children is an act of state terrorism
The time has come for the American public to make clear that resistance to the emerging fascism in the United States is not an option.
Caged children and terrified infants: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee describes ‘acts...
"So what I saw was a crisis continuing. Not in the making – a crisis continuing."
The Bible’s message on separating immigrant children from parents is a...
Scripture commands Christians to help the poor, to recognize the importance of the family, and to criticize unjust laws.
Democratic lawmakers join family separation protests at detention centers from Texas...
Protests have erupted nationwide against the Trump administration’s new policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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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.