Trump Is Trying to Find a Legal Way to Lock Up Even More Immigrant Families
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center in 2014.Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There’s still widespread uncertainty about how exactly the executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday will change his policy of separating and detaining immigrant families. But one…
Betsy DeVos Has Scrapped More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Started By the Obama Administration
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Whether schoolchildren in DeSoto County, Mississippi, are paddled varies by their race. Black students are almost two and a half times more likely than whites to endure the corporal punishment permitted under school district policy…
Inside the Noisy, Spontaneous, Airport Protest to Greet Separated Children in NYC
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at New York City’s Laguardia Airport late Wednesday night to greet inbound flights from Texas carrying displaced migrant children. They held signs offering words of love and support, and criticism of controversial family separation policies at the US-Mexico border. The scene outside…
Trump’s Immigration Policies Unified People of Many Faiths in a Powerful Protest on Capitol Hill Today
Children in Mylar survival blanketsLenin Nolly/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The president may have signed an executive order intended to end family separation at the border, but immigrant advocates aren’t quieting down. On Thursday morning, dozens of faith leaders, children, and protesters gathered at the Russell Senate office Building to demonstrate…
Tech Employees Are Rallying Against Their Companies’ Work With ICE
President Donald Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at the White House in 2017. Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On June 17th, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff retweeted images from a CBS reporter of a detention facility in McAllen, Texas where children slept on the floor, covered in emergency blankets.…
Melania Trump Has No Fucks Left to Give
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Melania Trump flew to Texas today to visit migrant children held in federal detention camps. Here’s what she wore: Her spokesperson told reporters, “It’s a jacket. There was no hidden message.” This is, obviously, a lie. Melania Trump is a former fashion model who is…