immigration
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Police Called on Oregon Senator After He’s Barred From Entering Immigration Detention Center
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) was hoping to visit with those being held in an immigration detention center in Texas; instead he was barred from entering and had the police called on him, and the whole encounter was recorded and posted to Facebook on Sunday. According to HuffPost: Merkley traveled to the facility in Brownsville,…
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Is the Trump Administration Running a Child-Trafficking Ring or Nah? Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole
Donald Trump has been the conspiracy whisperer throughout his entire public life. Even before he was president, he was convinced that the Central Park Five were guilty (they weren’t). He spent years claiming that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya (he wasn’t). He suggested that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death may have…
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Betsy DeVos to Schools: Call ICE on Undocumented Children
Does Betsy DeVos care more about furthering the xenophobic and racist policies of this administration than she does about educating the children of this country? The education secretary’s latest statement would lead us to believe that is indeed the case, since she basically told schools to call the police on undocumented children who show up…
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Exclusive: A Leaked Email Exchange Between Aaron Schlossberg and His PR Firm, You Can’t Say That MFer LLC
Editor’s note: This is satire. What is satire, you ask? According to Dictionary.com, satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Keep that in mind. Thanks. Recently, Aaron Schlossberg went full racist tirade on…
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Trump Called Undocumented Immigrants ‘Animals,’ and That’s Exactly What He Meant
On Wednesday during a White House meeting with mayors, sheriffs and other local leaders from California who oppose the state’s “sanctuary” immigration policies, President Donald Trump referred to some people who cross the borders illegally as “animals,” and that’s exactly what he meant. “We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in—and…
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Tomi Lahren Is a Descendant of Non-English-Speaking Immigrants. She Should Shut Up About Immigration
Dear Racist White People: When are you going to stop putting your chalky-ass feet in your mouth? When are you going to stop looking like fools in the name of upholding some type of white nationalism that you yourself may not even qualify for based on the required purity tests? And when, oh when, are…
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Deport Dem! Trump Administration Imposes Quotas on Immigration Judges
It’s so funny to me how those who hate to use quotas for something decent like leveling the playing field for the poor or working-class people of color (i.e., making sure there is enough diversity in schools, neighborhoods, buildings, etc.) are so quick to use them for criminal injustice (tickets, arrests and, now, deportations). Fun…
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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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Justice Department Sues Governor, Attorney General and State of California Over Immigration
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday evening against the state of California, its governor and its attorney general over “sanctuary” laws it alleges violate the Constitution and are friendly to undocumented immigrants. The federal government filed its case just after 9 p.m. EST in the state capital of Sacramento. According to the…
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The Same People Who Want to Keep Somalis Out of the US Want Trump to Let in White South Africans
South Africa’s Parliament, in a landmark vote last week, moved to amend the nation’s constitution to allow for the government to seize land from white South Africans without compensation. The controversial decision has sparked questions about what might happen to the white South African farmers who currently own the land, and how the land would…