These Republican Candidates Think Family Separation Is a Winning Issue
West Virginia GOP Senate candidate Patrick Morrisey speaks at a press conference on June 5, 2018.Craig Hudson/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Monday, retiring Republican Sen. Bob Corker (R) took a stand against the Trump administration policy that separates children from parents who are prosecuted for…
Trump’s Secretary of State Is Apparently Clueless About This Week’s News
Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State of the United States of America addressees the Detroit Economic Club Meeting held at Ford Field. Jeff Kowalsky/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As the Trump administration tries to dig itself out of the firestorm it made, separating 2,342 migrant children from their parents in just five…
Trump Wants to Replace Family Separation With Indefinite Detention. He Likely Can’t.
President Donald Trump meets with Republican members of Congress on Wednesday to discuss immigration.Evan Vucci/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is trying to to end the family separation crisis he created by detaining families together—indefinitely. But he likely won’t be able to do that for now, thanks to a…
Have You Ever Worked With Migrant Children? We Want to Hear From You
Mother Jones illustrationEric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Do you currently work with migrant children, or have you ever worked with them? Mother Jones wants to hear from you. The Trump administration’s new “zero tolerance” policy has led to thousands of families being separated at the border. After widespread…
The Trump Administration Kept Changing Its Story on Child Separation
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier today, President Donald Trump declared that he will be signing an executive order to end forced family separations at the border between the US and Mexico. Now that things may be changing, it’s worth reflecting on how, over the past week, the Trump Administration…
He Was Told He Couldn’t Let Migrant Kids Comfort Each Other—So He Quit
CNN Antar Davidson quit a government-contracted shelter for immigrant kids when superiors ordered him to tell young siblings that they were not allowed to hug. “When I received this order, I realized, because of the way that things were going, there would be more situations that would arise in which I was asked to do things…