Federal Inspectors Just Released These Harrowing Photos From Inside Border Holding Facilities
DHS Office of Inspector General As part of a critical report released Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General made public harrowing photographs from inside US Customs and Border Protection holding facilities in Texas. The photos, taken by OIG investigators at Border Patrol facilities in the Rio Grande Valley during the week…
“The Whole Facility’s Culture Is Rotted From the Core”: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Saw Inside the El Paso Camps
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is swarmed by media on Monday after touring a Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas. Christ Chavez/Getty What stands out most about the budding concentration camps in El Paso, Texas, is that they don’t stand out at all. An unmarked beige-brick office building holds dozens of children, blinds shut to prying eyes…
There Will Not Be a Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census
Demonstrators gather at the Supreme Court as the justices finish the term with key decisions on gerrymandering and a census case involving an attempt by the Trump administration to ask everyone about their citizenship status in the 2020 census, June 27, 2019.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The Trump administration will not include a controversial question about US…
Census 2020 Citizenship Question Finally Dead
Breaking news: HUGE CENSUS NEWS — the Government just advised that the decision has been made to print the the census questionnaire WITHOUT the citizenship question. We won. — Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) July 2, 2019 It seems like we don’t get good news very often these days. It’s nice to finally hear some.
Democrats Ponder How to Avoid a Climate Debate
In any serious climate plan, the United States would need to plan on building a few thousand of these. California alone would probably need several hundred.Album / Prisma We might get our Democratic climate debate after all: The Democratic National Committee is considering a pair of resolutions on whether to host a debate of some…
FFS, Now We’re Running Out of Sand
Sorry, but this kind of sand just won’t do.Hollandse-Hoogte via ZUMA We are running out of sand. No, really, and here’s a chart to prove it: Now wait a second. The Sahara Desert is brimming with sand. Why can’t we use that? Desert sand grains are too smooth to be useful, and most of the…