trump immigration policy
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Trump Creates ‘Denaturalization’ Task Force to Pursue Deportation Against Thousands of U.S. Citizens
There’s government pork and then there’s just swine. Our posturing president, who is wasting colossal amounts of money to appeal to his rabidly anti-immigrant base, would be the latter. In June, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services quietly announced a new task force that will investigate “bad” naturalization cases, wherein the agency will hire…
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At Capital Gazette, Lack of Security Was 'Deliberate'
Shooting Suspect Entered Easily; 5 Died Gizmodo Budget Cuts Claim 44, Root’s Journal-isms Celis to Be Honored for Aiding J-Students of Color Now The Station Theme Song Plays for Him, Too Media Faulted for Overlooking ‘Surprise’ Winner ICE Shows Up at CBS Interview With Ex-Spokesman Newsrooms in U.S., Latin America to Help Find Kids Most…
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John Legend Cussing Up a Storm About Sarah Sanders Is the Soundtrack You Need Today
At this point we’re fairly used to TV host and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen—who is, hands down, the best person on Twitter—being the voice-y one in the relationship. But that wasn’t the case Wednesday night, when a TMZ reporter ran up on Teigen and her husband, singer John Legend, as they left a restaurant in…
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Poll: One-Third of Americans, Nearly Half of Black People Think We’re Headed for Another Civil War
If there’s one thing the Trump presidency has shown us (besides the fact that white male mediocrity continues to win), it’s that what was once cloaked in darkness will come to light. To be specific: The country’s basest, most vile and selfish instincts are now front and center, and though there are many opposed to…
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Mike Huckabee Tweets Racist Photo Associating Nancy Pelosi With MS-13 Gang
White supremacist, Christian extremist and fFormer Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee tweeted a photo suggesting that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) campaign committee to “take back” the House of Representatives is made up of MS-13 gang members. Here is the racist tweet: The tweet was a clear effort to associate Pelosi and other Democrats with…
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Oregon DMV Employee on Leave After Posting on Facebook That Immigrants at the Border Should Be Shot
There’s nothing like a zero tolerance immigration policy to bring all the racist social media posts out into the light, it seems. A worker for Oregon Driver & Motor Vehicle Services, a division of the state’s Department of Transportation, is the latest to be dragged under the microscope of scrutiny after she made a Facebook…
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Melania Trump Doesn’t Care. Do U?
File this under “I’m not an immigrant but you are”: Deplorable First lady Melania Trump wore a cargo jacket that would better be described as “IDGAF” than “insensitive” during her “surprise” trip to Texas (doubtful, since there were painted signs welcoming her upon arrival) to visit immigrant children heartlessly separated from their parents. The back…
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It’s Not Slavery, It’s Not Japanese Internment: Trump’s Immigration Policy Is Like the Great Migration
America tried everything to keep the migrants out. Men and women were arrested at the border. Children were separated from parents. People got thrown in jail for violating random rules that nobody knew or understood. Kids went missing and the white nationalist president blamed his political opponents and the victims at the border. As much…
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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…