immigration
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Here’s What Trump’s Executive Order to End Family Separation at the Border Really Means
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump finally decided that he’d done enough damage in embarrassing America on a global stage and signed an executive order to end the separation of migrant children from their loved ones at the U.S. border. Didn’t matter that he could have done this weeks ago or that he never had to…
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The Hell After: New Report Uncovers Years of Negligence and Physical, Sexual Abuse in Shelters for Migrant Youths
On Wednesday the Trump administration reversed itself on a policy that, until recently, it staunchly defended: forcibly taking migrant children from their families at the southern border. But while family separation may be coming to an end, there is no plan to reunify with their families the approximately 2,000 children sitting in cages in U.S.…
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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…
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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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Bus Driver Tells Passengers They Must Be US Citizens in Order to Board
As attention turns toward the government-created humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration officials are slowly encroaching into other parts of American life. Over Memorial Day weekend, under the gaze of a Border Patrol agent, a bus driver in Maine told passengers that they needed to be U.S. citizens in order to ride the Concord…
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Ex-Shelter Worker Says New Staffers Received Just 1 Week of Training to Work With Traumatized Migrant Children
A former staffer who called out conditions at an Arizona migrant shelter had more to say this weekend about the poor management of centers currently housing undocumented children. Antar Davidson spoke with MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian on Sunday (h/t Raw Story) about the Estrella del Norte shelter in Tucson, Ariz. The shelter has served as a…
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We’ve Been Here Before: A Psychologist Calls Out the Horrifying Familiarity of America’s Treatment of Migrant Children
Amid a deluge of recent reports on the terrors that migrants are facing at the U.S. border, including stories of families being ripped apart and planned “tent cities” for unaccompanied children, public pressure is mounting against the Trump administration to change course on its draconian and cruel immigration policy. A number of professional organizations have…
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Jeff Sessions Defend Separating Immigrant Children From Their Parents
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a mindless propaganda puppet, and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions—aka King Kleeber Klaus or KKK or Racist Santa—is a heartless demon who deals in racism and xenophobia. Both of them are trash individuals, and they proved that fact on Thursday when they both separately defended the new…
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Restaurants Boycott Brooklyn, NY, Army Base After Guard Called ICE on Deliveryman
After Pablo Villavicencio, a 35-year-old immigrant from Ecuador, was detained and then turned over to immigration agents after delivering pizza to a Brooklyn, N.Y., military base last week, many restaurants and delivery services in the area began a boycott of the Army garrison. This act serves not only as a form of protection for those…
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A Deliveryman Brought Pizza Pies to a Brooklyn, NY, Military Base. Now He’s Facing Deportation
It wasn’t the first time Pablo Villavicencio delivered pizzas to the base. But on June 1, on a run to the Fort Hamilton military base in Brooklyn, N.Y., Villavicencio was asked by security to provide an ID. As he had done in the past, he presented his New York City ID—a free, government-based ID card…