“We’re About to Make Pimps’ Jobs Real Easy”: The Shutdown Has Put Trafficking Victims in Harm’s Way
Favor_of_God/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At Courtney’s House, a Washington, DC, center for young sex trafficking survivors, founder Tina Frundt has been seeing kids every day who are afraid of the government shutdown. They’re worried, she says, that it is affecting the many services they sorely need. She spoke of one 19-year-old she works…
Two Presidents. Huge Protests. Trump Saber-Rattling. An Expert Explains What’s Happening in Venezuela.
Venezuela’s National Assembly head Juan Guaido speaks to the crowd during a mass opposition rally against leader Nicolas Maduro on January 23, 2019.Federico Parra/AFP/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Wednesday to demand that the country’s longtime president, Nicolás Maduro,…
The United States Is No Longer the World Leader in Resettling Refugees
Syrian refugee children walk in mud after heavy rain this month at a refugee camp in Bar Elias, Lebanon. Bilal Hussein/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the first time in more than three decades, the United States is not the world leader in resettling refugees. That title now belongs…
Trump Announces His Plan to End the Shutdown: Trading Deportations for a Wall
President Donald Trump arrives to speak about his proposal to end the partial government shutdown. Alex Brandon Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a speech delivered at the White House this afternoon, President Donald Trump proposed spending $5.7 billion on a border wall in exchange for offering to protect some…
Trump’s Plan to End the Shutdown Is Already Getting Terrible Reviews
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This afternoon, President Donald Trump is expected to propose an deal that would exchange $5.7 billion in border wall funding for his support of the BRIDGE Act, which would extend protections to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and give…
Did the Supreme Court Issue a Major Immigration Ruling Under False Pretenses?
The privately run South Texas Detention Center in Pearsall, Texas, in 2009Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the Supreme Court considered a major immigration case on whether detained migrants could be held without bond hearings, the Trump administration assured the justices that it would continue to uphold a…