Tag: migrants
Immigration cruelty goes beyond the border
Migrants are hit long before they migrate, before they reach the border, and often long after they cross it.
The triumph and tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team
It's beautiful that there's an Olympic team for 82 million displaced people. But have we accepted mass displacement as the new normal?
Senators question DHS and ICE on abuse allegations against migrants
"The allegations of violence and brutality against vulnerable refugees seeking safety here in the United States are unlawful and disturbing.”
US press horrified by Trump’s “shoot migrants in the legs” but...
The Jupiter-sized blind spot of US media managed to report without mentioning that this procedure, of shooting people massing on the border in the legs has over the past 18 months become the routine Israeli policy.
Trump administration revives public charge clause that kept Nazi-era refugees from...
The Trump administration is as likely to succeed in communicating what it wants to lower-level officials as was the Nazi-era State Department.
Activist Scott Warren, facing federal charges for aiding migrants, says he...
Warren, a longtime volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, was charged with three felony counts for his alleged crime of providing food, water and shelter to migrants in Ajo, Arizona.
N.C. shut down a group home last year. The US just...
Advocates for migrant children have criticized the government for relying on these large new facilities.
Prosecutors move forward with retrial of aid worker who provided water...
"The US government is disgracing itself by threatening and even prosecuting its own citizens for their vital work to save the lives of people in a desperate situation at the border.”
Poem: ICE storm in the desert
ICE weighing down the roof of the houseICE playing games of cat and mouseA little mouse, a baby in factThey put in...
Inside the secret border patrol Facebook group where agents joke about...
The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory comments about Latina lawmakers who plan to visit a controversial Texas detention facility on Monday, calling them “scum buckets” and “hoes.”
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Seven dead in ICE custody in Trump’s first 100 days as detainee population swells
At least seven migrants have died in ICE custody since January, as the Trump administration expands detention and dismantles oversight across a system plagued by abuse, neglect, and inhumane conditions.
The real evil empire may surprise you
Serving in (or thinking about) the U.S. military for 40 years.
Texas voters reject far right school boards in sweeping backlash to book bans
Dozens of candidates who backed book censorship policies lost their seats in school board elections across Texas, signaling public fatigue with partisan attacks on students, educators, and libraries.
GOP Medicaid cuts would drop millions from coverage while boosting tax breaks for the...
New Republican plan could strip 8.6 million Americans of healthcare while permanently enriching the ultra-wealthy through revived 2017 tax breaks.
One in ten Americans lives in a sinking city, new study finds
Groundbreaking research from Columbia University reveals that land beneath America’s largest cities is sinking—mostly due to groundwater extraction—posing a hidden but growing threat to infrastructure, flood safety, and climate resilience.