asylum seekers
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ICE Is Reportedly Torturing Detained African Immigrants To Force Deportations Ahead of Election
On the heels of the last presidential debate—in which Trump flippantly dismissed his administration’s cruel and inhumane decision to separate immigrant children from their parents for the crime of being non-white and seeking asylum in America—there are now reports that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are torturing detained immigrants from Cameroon as part of…
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Asylum Deal With Guatemala Deemed Unlawful By Immigration Officers
The immigration policies executed by the Trump administration have been, to be succinct, fucked up. That’s not even just me saying that. The people who have to execute his policies are saying it too. The New York Times reports that a union of federal asylum workers has filed an amicus brief stating that a policy…
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U.S. Government Admits Another Migrant Child Died Under Its Care—8 Months After the Fact
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed on Wednesday that a 10-year-old girl from Guatemala died while in U.S. custody last year, bringing the total number of known migrant child deaths to six in the last eight months. Democrats are calling for an investigation into the case, and because the agency had kept…
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A Group of Wannabe Feds Is Going Around Pointing Guns at Immigrants at the US-Mexico Border and Calling It Citizen's Arrest; ACLU Calls It Kidnapping
Members of a local militia in New Mexico apparently decided to take matters into their own hands regarding this nation’s immigration policy and detained a group of asylum seekers at gunpoint before turning them over to U.S. Border Patrol. Video posted online by a group calling itself United Constitutional Patriots show armed militia members, wearing…
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Fox & Friends Guest Claims Pepper Spray Is So Safe, You Can ‘Put It on Your Nachos and Eat It’
On Monday morning, pictures began circulating of Sunday’s confrontation on the U.S./Mexico border between dozens of Central American asylum seekers and U.S. Border Patrol agents—though let’s be real: The “confrontation” was one-sided. As multiple news outlets reported, U.S. Border Patrol launched tear gas and pepper balls at a group of 70 or 80 migrants, which…
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Jeff Sessions Makes Another Racist, Sexist Policy Change at Justice Department. Is Anyone Surprised?
In what surely is a direct attack on immigrants from Central America, Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday reversed a ruling by an immigration court, making it more difficult for those who seek asylum here to claim fears of domestic abuse or gang violence as legitimate reasons to gain entry into the United States. Of…