Exasperated Reporter Confronts Sanders Over Trump Administration’s Cruelty to Immigrant Children
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As condemnation grows over the more than 1,300 children separated from their families because of the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy at the border, the White House on Thursday continued to repeat the false assertion that the policy is required by a long-standing, decades-old court order. “The laws are…
Judge Halts Deportation of Pizza Delivery Man—For Now
Erik Mcgregor/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in New York has temporarily halted the deportation of a pizza delivery driver who was detained earlier this month while out on a delivery. Lawyers for Pablo Villavicencio Calderon announced the emergency petition to stay on Saturday. The 35-year-old father…
They Separated Him From His Wife and Child at the Border. Then He Took His Own Life.
Immigration detainees sit in their cells at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, Calif., in 2010. Jae C. Hong/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two days after 40 Democratic senators called on the Trump administration to end its “inhumane decision” to separate families at the border, the Washington Post reported…
She Was Enslaved by Salvadoran Guerrillas. US Judges Say That Makes Her Ineligible for Asylum.
A man wears a shirt with the Spanish initials of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, a left-wing guerrilla group, in San Salvador in 1989.Mario Ruiz/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. She watched as Salvadoran guerrillas made her husband dig his own grave and then murdered him. She was forced to cook,…
Why the Trump Administration is Treating Immigration Detainees Like Criminals
Suspected illegal border crossers at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In an unexpected and unusual move, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it plans to transfer 1,600 of its detainees to federal prisons. The agency says a surge…
Federal Judge Strikes a Blow Against the Trump Administration’s Separation of Families at the Border
A child and her mother at a May rally to protest the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policies.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policies of forcibly separating parents from their children at the border will be allowed to proceed, a federal judge ruled today.…