immigration policy
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Trump Administration Will Start DNA Testing Migrant Families Seeking Asylum at Southern Border
The Department of Homeland Security is launching a DNA testing pilot on the southern border next week to identify and prosecute people posing as families. The program is intended to limit human smuggling, according to reports from CNN and BuzzFeed. As CNN first reported, the pilot program will take place in two border locations and…
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Trump Sends Migrants to Sanctuary Cities as DHS Asks Defense Department for Assistance at Border
After tweeting that his administration was considering a move to send undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities, Trump told a crowd gathered at a Wisconsin rally that the authorities have begun sending immigrants to cities around the country. According to The Hill, Trump took credit for the decision, calling it his “sick idea.” “Last month alone,…
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US Supreme Court to Weigh In on Whether Census Can Ask Citizenship Status
It’s funny how the “construction” of the U.S. Constitution only really seems to matter to conservatives when said construct conforms to a belief near and dear to their hearts. Like, let’s say, the Second Amendment, and what it has to say about guns. So-called constructionists and gun advocates often argue that any changes to law…
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Trump Declares Country 'Full' As States Sue to Block Wall Funding
At this rate, folks, Trump’s next executive order might have ICE agents play “Closing Time” from tank stereos situated along the border. Trump participated in a briefing on immigration in Calexico, a small city situated along the border between the U.S. and Mexico, where he used his bully pulpit to hammer home the creeping threat…
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Winter Is Coming: Trump's Female Opposition Will Be Wearing White to the State of the Union
When Donald Trump approaches the podium to wheeze through his sad little State of the Union address Tuesday night (when most of us would rather be watching Phylicia Rashad and Susan Kelechi Watson devour scenery on This Is Us), he will likely be greeted with a sea of white. No, it won’t be the hoods…
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Four Volunteers Convicted for Leaving Food and Water Near Border as Four More Await Trial
Four of the nine volunteers working with the aid group No More Deaths are set to stand trial over exhibiting common decency to migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border. After four workers were convicted of misdemeanor charges for leaving food and water for migrants crossing in 2017, four more are set to stand trial over similar…
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Border Agents Would Rather Migrants Die Than Let Them Have Food and Water as They Cross the Desert
Last week during his Oval Office confessional, Donald Trump asserted that there is a humanitarian crisis at the U.S./Mexico border. While what Trump actually considers to be a humanitarian crisis is up for debate, there are in fact problems at our border that emphasize the way the United States continues to dehumanize those who come…
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Statue of Liberty Protester Found Guilty on All Charges, Stands Strong: ‘I Am on the Right Side of History’
Therese “Patricia” Okoumou, the New Yorker who protested U.S. immigration policy on July 4 by climbing the Statue of Liberty, faces up to 18 months in federal prison after being found guilty on all three misdemeanor charges brought against her. Okoumou was found guilty of trespassing, interference with government agency functions, and disorderly conduct on…