Trump Takes No Responsibility For Two Migrant Children Who Died in Border Patrol Custody
Niall Carson/PA Wire/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two children, aged 7 and 8-years-old, died this month while in Border Patrol custody. On Saturday, President Donald Trump offered his first response to the deaths, but rather than offering condolences he lashed out and blamed Democrats for not funding his wall,…
Trump Threatens to Close Border and Cut Off Aid to Central American Countries
Zach Gibson/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a week into a government shutdown that has left an estimated 800,000 federal workers furloughed or working without pay, President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the US-Mexico border and cut off aid to three Central American countries if Democrats did…
A Haitian Asylum-Seeker Had Been Stuck in Jail for Almost Two Years. This Ohio Couple Stepped Up to Help.
Gary Benjamin and Melody Hart with Ansly Damus, a Haitian asylum-seeker who was freed after two years in detention.Matt McClain/The Washington Post After a gang beat him for criticizing a local politician, Ansly Damus fled Haiti. The former teacher came to the United States seeking asylum—but instead, immigration officials put him in a windowless cell…
Facebook Let These Misleading Advertisers Promote the Border Wall Fundraiser
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook users are running sponsored political advertisements promoting the crowdfunding campaign for Trump’s border wall under misleading “Paid for by” labels. Earlier this year, Facebook similarly came under fire for the “Paid for by” labels on its political ads. According to Facebook’s own policies, advertisers…
Supreme Court Blocks Asylum Ban in a Rebuke to Trump
Chief Justice John RobertsJ. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s request to let it immediately ban people from receiving asylum if they cross the border between official ports of entry. Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the court’s four liberal justices on…
Why Trump’s Latest Asylum Decision Will Put Migrants’ Lives in Danger
Migrants wait to eat at a temporary shelter near the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, in November.John Moore/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced that the Trump administration will force asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their applications for protection in the United…