Pence Says “Of Course” Detained Kids Deserve Toothbrushes and Soap
State of the Union/CNN On Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence admitted to CNN’s Jake Tapper that “of course” immigrant children detained at the border should be given toothbrushes, soap, and medicine. The simple statement directly contradicts a Trump administration lawyer who last week suggested before a panel of Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges that…
Trump Tries to Take Credit for Delaying the ICE Raids He’d Planned Himself
Jim Loscalzo/CNP/ZUMA President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he would delay massive raids on undocumented immigrants that he had ordered on the eve of his reelection campaign kickoff earlier this week. The president made his pronouncement via Twitter, saying that he had hit the pause button “at the request of Democrats.” House Speaker Nancy…
Republicans Claim Outrage Over Ocasio-Cortez’s “Concentration Camps” Remarks
Tom Williams/ZUMA Republicans are claiming outrage after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) compared immigration detention centers along the southern border to concentration camps—remarks she first made during an Instagram Live session late Monday and has since defended. “That is exactly what they are: They are concentration camps,” Ocasio-Cortez told her followers on Monday. “I want to…
Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” Policy Has Turned Back More Than 10,000 Asylum Seekers
In the last four months, more than 11,000 migrants seeking asylum in the United States have been returned to Mexican border towns by American immigration officials under the Trump’s administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, and the number is likely to increase dramatically in coming months. New numbers from the Mexican government’s migration office, Instituto Nacional…
Ocean Vuong Wrote One of the Summer’s Most Anticipated Books. He Doesn’t Care If It “Matters to Whiteness.”
Tom Hines Ocean Vuong’s first act of writing, as he describes it, was an act of preservation. When his grandmother died in 2008, he felt a “sudden panic.” “I’m the only one that can write in the family,” he tells me, “so if I don’t write down her stories, they’ll be gone.” Vuong began penning…
Trump Doubles Down on Plan to Release Migrants in Sanctuary Cities
Immigrant families and activists rally outside the Tennessee State Capitol against a bill to prohibit sanctuary city policies in the state in May.Drew Angerer/Getty Two days after President Donald Trump tweeted that the United States has the “absolute legal right” to send detained migrants to sanctuary cites, he appeared to double down Monday, tweeting that…