Top Trump Homeland Security Pick Admits He Made the Call to Subject Sick Kids to Deportation
Ken Cuccinelli testified at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on deportation of critically ill immigrants Wednesday.Jose Luis Magana/AP Ken Cuccinelli, whom President Donald Trump is considering appointing as homeland security chief using an obscure and legally dubious maneuver, admitted Wednesday that he made the controversial decision to subject critically ill immigrant children to deportation. The…
Inside the US Marshals’ Secretive, Deadly Detention Empire
A large rectangle of red dirt on the flat expanse of West Texas’ Permian Basin reminds Sadrac Garcia every day of what his family has lost. A few months ago, he could stand on the small porch of his brother Juan’s double-wide and peer into the window of their parents’ trailer a few meters away.…
Pramila Jayapal Doesn’t Want to Give Trump “a Dollar More” for His “Vanity Wall”
John Moore/Getty Forget about President Donald Trump’s wild dreams of fortifying his border wall with a snake-filled moat: The immigration policies he has implemented have wreaked havoc at the border and expanded a cruel detention system rife with health and safety violations. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) says this system is in desperate need of reform—and in recent…
Trump Proposed Shooting Migrants to Prevent Them From Crossing the Border
Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump once pitched fortifying the border with a snake-filled trench, creating an electrified wall with spikes, and reportedly suggested officers shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down, according to an excerpt from a new book written by New York Times reporters Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael Shear. He talked about…
The Trump Administration’s Court-Packing Scheme Fills Immigration Appeals Board With Hardliners
A woman sits with her son along the border in Tijuana in July as they wait to apply for asylum in the United States.Gregory Bull/AP In his first six years as an immigration judge in New York and Atlanta, from 1993 to 1999, William Cassidy rejected more asylum seekers than any judge in the nation.…
Trump’s New Indefinite Family Detention Plan Completes a Cruel Agenda
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes family detention center in Texas in 2014.Eric Gay/AP In April, after starting a new system of sending asylum seekers back to Mexico to wait for their US court dates, the Trump administration received a familiar piece of news: A judge in California was blocking…