Asylum-Seekers Sent Back to Tijuana Under Trump Policy Are Finally Starting to Get Their Day in Court
San Diego/Tijuana border crossing into Mexico. Fernanda Echavarri Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. G.B. sat up straight and adjusted the headphones given to him by an interpreter. “Good afternoon sir,” the judge said. “Si, señor,” G.B. responded, and the interpreter translated: “Yes, sir.” “Go ahead and try to relax,” the judge…
Surprise! Juvenile Crime Has Plummeted in California.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that juvenile crime has plunged mysteriously: Over the past decade, the state’s numerous expanded juvenile halls have become near-empty monuments to a costly miscalculation — a mistake compounded each year as the number of young offenders plummeted. Some California counties…
ICE Predicted Record-Breaking Arrest Numbers. Instead, They Keep Dropping.
An immigrant is arrested during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Los Angeles, California in February 2017.Charles Reed/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be succeeding in instilling widespread fear among immigrants, but it is arresting far fewer people than it once did. After taking…
Marine Commandant Not Happy About Border “Emergency”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. General Robert Neller, the head of the Marine Corps, is not happy with his commander-in-chief: The commandant of the Marines has warned the Pentagon that deployments to the southwest border and funding transfers under the president’s emergency declaration, among other unexpected demands, have posed “unacceptable…
Millennials Are Very Financially Trustworthy
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The St. Louis Fed recently republished a note from last November about credit card delinquency. First, they note that millennials have the highest rate of delinquency. But then they make the obvious point that this is because millennials are younger than other generations, and young…
Chinese Influence Group Shuts Down After Report on Cindy Yang’s Ties
Mother Jones illustration/Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Florida chapter of the Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China (CPPRC), part of a network of groups linked to China’s Community Party and seen as vehicles for projecting Chinese influence in the West, abruptly dissolved last week…