immigrant family separations
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During the Last 4 Months, 3 People Have Committed Suicide in ICE Custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a government agency that terrorizes innocents, separates families and now drives people to suicide. CBS News reports that the death of British immigrant Ben James Owen makes him the third person to commit suicide in ICE custody in the last four months. This follows the October suicide of Roylan…
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After Record-Setting ICE Raid in Mississippi, Migrant Children Face the Horror of Living Without Their Parents
After nearly 700 immigrants were detained by ICE agents on Wednesday during a series of strategic raids, an ugly situation in Morton, Miss., became even more gruesome as children, some as young as toddlers, have been forced to rely on members of their community in the absence of their parents. From WSET: The Clear Creek…
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A New Tent City in the Texas Desert and Other Changes Being Imposed on Migrant Children in the US
The number of detained migrant children in the United States has increased more than fivefold since last year, and their plight in this country is not getting any better. In recent weeks, hundreds have been transferred to a tent city in the South Texas desert with little access to legal representation and no required education.…
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Oh, the Irony: Ivanka Trump's Makeup Artist Is … a Mexican Immigrant?
Here’s a study in “cognitive dissonance.” Style site Refinery29 recently revealed a very interesting and ironic fun fact about devoted first daughter and right-wing beauty icon, Ivanka Trump: her longtime makeup artist, Alexa Rodulfo, is a Mexican immigrant. Yes, you read that right. Already a beauty entrepreneur in her native Juarez, Mexico, in 2005, Rodulfo…
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Youth Care Worker Accused of Sexually Molesting 8 Children at Government Immigrant Shelter in Mesa, Ariz.
A Southwest Key youth-care worker is facing multiple sex offense charges after being accused of molesting at least eight unaccompanied boys over the time span of a year at one of the government youth shelters in Mesa, Ariz. Levian D. Pacheco, who is HIV-positive, is accused of performing oral sex on two of the teens…
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Trump to Migrant Parents Whose Children Were Taken at the Border: Let the ACLU Find Your Family
Despite the fact that the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance policy” is the reason that migrant parents were forcibly separated from their children at the border, the Department of Justice doesn’t believe that they should be responsible for reuniting the families they tore apart. On Thursday, the Trump administration told a federal judge that the American…
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At Capital Gazette, Lack of Security Was 'Deliberate'
Shooting Suspect Entered Easily; 5 Died Gizmodo Budget Cuts Claim 44, Root’s Journal-isms Celis to Be Honored for Aiding J-Students of Color Now The Station Theme Song Plays for Him, Too Media Faulted for Overlooking ‘Surprise’ Winner ICE Shows Up at CBS Interview With Ex-Spokesman Newsrooms in U.S., Latin America to Help Find Kids Most…
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Fox Idiota Claims Black People Told Her Child Detention Centers Were Better Than Public Housing
Another day, another Fox News guest attempting to validate the cruel treatment of America’s black and brown folks—this time, by seemingly pitting the two against each other. Fox commentator Rachel Campos-Duffy (formerly of Real World fame, itself a far more respectable platform than Fox News) defended the conditions in detainment centers housing migrant children on…
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Trump Administration Drafts Executive Order Ending Separation and Detainment of Migrant Children
The Associated Press is reporting that Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen has drafted an executive action that would end the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families caught crossing the border. Nielsen was at the White House today, where Donald Trump also told reporters that he would be “signing something” on immigration soon, AP…