Julián Castro Just Saw Donald Trump’s Border Crisis Firsthand: “His Agenda Is Killing People”
Democratic Presidential hopeful Julián Castro escorts a group of migrants to the Brownsville Port of Entry Monday morning. He asked port officials to allow the migrants to petition for asylum in the United States. Courtesy of Julián Castro Democratic presidential hopeful Julián Castro visited a makeshift camp on Monday in the Mexican city of Matamoros,…
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…
Trump Proposes Severely Curtailing the Number of Refugees Allowed into the United States
A migrant boy stands outside a tent at a refugee camp in northern Greece.Giannis Papanikos/AP On Thursday, Donald Trump announced plans to allow no more than 18,000 refugees into the country in 2020, in conjunction with a new executive order to require explicit consent from state and local governments to receive refugees seeking resettlement. “The…
Trump Is Forcing Asylum Seekers to Brave Mexican Border Cities at Night to Make Their Court Dates
Mario Tama/Getty A few weeks ago, Sister Salome Limas started fielding some unusual requests at the women’s shelter she runs in Tijuana: The Central American asylum seekers staying at Instituto Madre Asunta began asking if she could let them out in the middle of the night so they could go to court in the United States.…
The Democrats Are Ignoring a Climate Refugee Crisis That’s Happening Right Now
Last weekend, at least 119 Bahamians fleeing the destruction left by Hurricane Dorian were forced off a ferry headed for the east coast of Florida because they lacked visas. This came despite visa-free travel between the United States and the Bahamas, a trip so common some make it without even needing passports. On Monday, President…