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HUD Could Displace More Than 100,000 Legal Residents and Citizens With New Proposed Rule
Stephen Miller will never big people face to match his big-and-tall head, and is determined to take his anger out on the most vulnerable among us. After months of pushing the Trump administration to penalize immigrants—legal and undocumented alike—in myriad ways, Miller seems to be getting his wish with a little help from Ben Carson.…
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Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Seems Poised to OK Citizenship Question on 2020 Census—No Matter the Cost to Heavily Immigrant Communities
The U.S. Supreme Court seems to be headed toward backing a Trump administration move to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even if doing so risks undercounting Latinos and other groups with heavy immigrant populations. Based on comments and questions raised by the conservative majority in listening to arguments Tuesday, it appeared that…
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Welfare for the Wealthy: Trump Administration Tax Loophole Is Government Assistance for Gentrifiers
Hidden in the new tax code passed by a Republican-led Congress and signed by the Trump administration is a new program that critics say will reward gentrification by giving billions in tax breaks to wealthy venture capitalists, individuals and corporations who invest in low-income communities. On Wednesday, April 17, as journalists waited for the release…
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On Earth Day, Our Fight for Environmental Justice and Against the Trump EPA’s Toxic Agenda Continues
The Trump administration and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler have failed African-American communities. Earth Day is the ideal time to renew our commitment to ensure everyone has equal access to clean air and safe environments regardless of which zip code they live in. It is also a time to remember our history is rooted…
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‘Fire Me Good Friday’: Veteran Journalist April Ryan Calls for Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ Head on a Platter
It’s no secret that veteran White House correspondent April Ryan and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders don’t have the most collegial of relationships, and now Ryan has vociferously called for Huckabee Sanders’ resignation. “When there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start and start lopping the heads off. It’s ‘Fire…
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Just When You Thought the Trump Administration Couldn’t Get Any Lower, This Happened
Contrary to popular opinion, Donald Trump is not Satan. If Satan ate six buy-one-get-one-free clearance specials from a mystery meat cart at a Mississippi carnival that gave him diarrhea that he was unaware of until an assumed fart revealed itself to be an inadvertent poopburst that leaked out of his anus and ran down his…
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Liberian PhD Candidate Vulnerable to Deportation As Deferred Enforced Departure for Liberians Comes to an End
As Donald Trump moved to end differed enforced departure for Liberians last year, the Los Angeles Times reports a 28-year-old UCLA PhD Candidate may be forced to leave her home of 21 years. Yatta Kiazolu, born in Botswana to Liberian parents, has lived in the United States since the age of 7, maintaining legal authorization…
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President Trump Needs a New Black as Ben Carson Will Leave HUD at the End of the First Term
The president’s senior most black, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, is leaving the Trump administration at the end of Trump’s first term. “I will certainly finish out this term,” Carson told Newsmax’s John Gizzi, Monday. After Carson’s cryptic answer, Gizzi pressed him on whether he’d be interested in serving a second term to…
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New Trump Administration Policy Would Make Racism OK as Long as You Don't Mean It
While America is engaged in a heated debate about the border wall and the government shutdown, at least three cabinet-level departments inside the Trump administration have been quietly investigating how they could roll back a particularly important legal precedent that prevents discrimination in housing, employment, policing and even education. The Washington Post reports that the…