trump immigration policy
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Federal Judge Rules New Evidence of Race and Partisan Bias in Citizenship Question Issue Deserves a 2nd Look
A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday ruled there is enough new evidence to suggest the need to reconsider whether the Trump administration conspired to disenfranchise minorities and Democrats when it moved to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. U.S. District Court Judge George Hazel had already ruled against the citizenship question earlier…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Draws GOP Wrath After Slamming Immigrant Detention Centers as Modern-Day ‘Concentration Camps’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling out the dire situation for immigrants being held at the United States’ southern border in federal detention centers as being akin to the concentration camps of the Holocaust—and she doesn’t care who may be butt-hurt about the comparison. “The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and…
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Just What We Suspected: Push for Citizenship Question on 2020 Census Is About Favoring Whites and Republicans
Virtual messages from the grave prove that the Trump administration’s push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census has indeed been a craven ploy to benefit Republicans and “non-Hispanic whites.” That’s according to lawyers for those making a court challenge to the addition of the question to the census, according to the Washington…
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Donald Trump Tells the Grinch to Hold His Beer: National Christmas Tree Unlit Due to Government Shutdown
The national Christmas tree in Washington, D.C., stood lightless and listless on Christmas Day, a casualty of the partial government shutdown, sending sectors of the country into a whirlwind of delays, stoppages and emergency adjustments to holiday plans. According to the Associated Press, several national parks had closed as a result of the government shutdown…
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She Really Does Care? Omarosa Says Melania Trump Is Trying to 'Punish' Her Husband With Fashion
Fun fact: There is currently an exhibit called Why They Wore It: The Politics and Pop Culture of First Ladies’ Fashion on display at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif. It’s the first exhibit to display a garment from the current first lady, Melania Trump. But at least one person…
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Irony: Jeff Sessions Seemingly Hates Mexicans But Loves Mexican Food
I’m sitting here grossing myself out and trying to figure out if I have ever seen a picture that shows a close-up shot of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ crotch. The reason I’m wondering if I have seen a picture of his crotch is that I have no doubt he has cajones the size of…
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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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Judge Rules Against Trump Administration, Rejects Long-Term Detention of Migrant Families
A U.S. federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to detain migrant children and their families seeking asylum in the U.S. for indefinite periods of time. As the New York Times reports, Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles delivered the ruling, which shot down every argument offered…
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Patricia Okoumou Knows She Could Have Died During her Statue of Liberty Protest; She Did it Anyway
On July 4, 2018, amid the cursory cookouts, cheap beer and sunburns, Patricia Okoumou climbed the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, N.Y., to protest the treatment of immigrant children by the Trump administration. The 44-year-old personal trainer, herself an immigrant from the Congo, had taken part in a protest earlier that day with Rise…