department of homeland security
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In 1 Press Conference, Kirstjen Nielsen Just Beat Out Sarah Sanders for Most Hated Person in Trump’s White House
President Mein Führer von SpankDat is excluded from the “most hated in the White House” game because he would win every time. Before Monday’s press conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on the youth internment camps—which used to be big-box department stores or warehouses before becoming makeshift youth prisons—Sarah Huckabee Sanders, aka…
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Congolese Mother and Daughter Seeking Refuge Were Torn Apart at the US Border, and No One Can Explain Why: Report
In an op-ed published Tuesday, the Washington Post drew attention to a case that highlights the cruelty and “tortured logic” of our country’s current immigration policies. The case involves a mother who, fearing for her life and the life of her daughter, fled from the Congo to the United States. In November, as the Post…
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Citing Trump’s Own Racist Words, NAACP LDF Files Suit Against Homeland Security for Revoking Protections of Haitian Immigrants
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a discrimination lawsuit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security for rescinding the Temporary Protected Status of nearly 60,000 Haitian immigrants. According to an LDF press release, the suit alleges that the 2017 decision to remove the TPS of tens of thousands of Haitians displaced by the…
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Homeland Security Officer Indicted for Kicking a Handcuffed Man in the Head
A Department of Homeland Security officer is facing charges after being caught on video kicking a handcuffed man in the head outside a federal building in Pomona, Calif. The officer, identified as 46-year-old Jason Rouswell—an inspector with the Federal Protective Services—was indicted Thursday on accusations of violating the civil rights of the unidentified man who…
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Sheriff ‘Black Guy for Trump’ Turns Down Job at the Department of Homeland Security
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.—you know, the black man who loves to chide black people in the name of his lord and master Donald J. Trump—won’t be taking the assistant secretary position at the Department of Homeland Security. “Late Friday, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. formally notified Secretary of Homeland Security John…
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Trump Administration’s Failure to Recognize Haiti Is a Painful American Tradition
Editor’s note: Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced Monday that he has extended Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status for six more months. He hinted that this shortened extension will be the last, saying that TPS recipients should take “time to attain travel documents and make other necessary arrangements for their ultimate departure from the United States.” …
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ICE Temporarily Suspends Its Weekly List Meant to Shame Cities That Won’t Detain Immigrants
Remember how the Trump administration figured it would try to shame sanctuary cities into cooperating with its detainer requests by publishing the “Declined Detainer Outcome Report” on a weekly basis? Remember how the first one came out and we were all like, “Shut up, Homeland Security”? Well, apparently the administration has realized what a horrible…
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DHS Is Big Mad, Publishes List to Shame Cities That Won’t Detain Immigrants
The Trump administration promised to publicly shame any city or county that did not cooperate with federal immigration authorities by detaining undocumented immigrants who have been arrested or charged with a crime, and the Department of Homeland Security made good on that promise Monday by publishing its first weekly list of local jails and jurisdictions…
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Trump Administration Considering Separating Women and Children at Border
In an effort by President Donald Trump to end what he calls “catch and release,” the Department of Homeland Security is considering separating women and children trying to come into the country at the Southern border illegally, ostensibly to stop “the exploitation of children.” “We are trying to find ways to deter the use of…