Tag: immigration
Myths and facts: Trump’s separation of families and detention of children...
Media Matters has gathered and debunked the most common strains of misinformation attempting to whitewash the cruel and unusual practice.
Six dictators who divided children from parents
Separating children from their families has been characteristic of the biggest dictators of the modern era.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, June 18, 2018
Separating families at the border, the Poor People's Campaign, Republicans and the NRA fight against gun regulations, and more.
#FamiliesBelongTogether rallies around the country
Rallies nationwide have popped up to call out local officials and government policies that separate children at the border.
Bring awareness and demand change: Immigrant families being forced to separate
Let's raise awareness, and demand change, of the tactics the Trump administration is utilizing when dealing with immigrant families.
Rapidly becoming irrelevant in America: The principles of ethics and morality
It appears that we have entered an era in this nation’s history is which the principles of ethics and morals are becoming irrelevant in both this government and our society.
Sen. Merkley tries to gain access into migrant shelter for kids,...
"We still have no idea what’s happening in the detention center where reportedly up to a thousand children are being held, since they refused the senator’s request to go inside.”
Minority lawyers hanging from their own bootstraps
How law schools fail those who seek justice.
Welcome to police-state America, weary traveler
How to make the tourists feel unwelcome, and citizens sick.
A vile act of inhumanity: Splitting up families like the slave...
Immigrants are an easy scapegoat for a deteriorating society. Stripping them from their children is the vilest act of inhumanity.
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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.