A Surprise Inspection of an ICE Detention Center Reveals Horrific Conditions
Immigrants wait in a processing cell at Adalanto Detention Facility.John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Inside an immigration detention center in the desert outside Los Angeles, guards threw detainees into solitary confinement without hearings, routinely forced them into shackles, and cut off visits with family. Doctors signed off…
The Trump Administration Set a Record-Low Limit for Refugee Admissions. It Let In Half That Number.
A displaced Syrian woman holds a toddler in camp “Hope” in the Syrian village of Kafr Lusein in September. Omar Haj Kadour/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A year ago, the Trump administration cut the United States’ annual limit on refugee admissions to the lowest level on record. The 45,000-person…
Republicans Put Out a Very Misleading Ad Attacking Medicare-for-All
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A new ad from the National Republican Campaign Committee, the main organization dedicated to electing Republicans to the House of Representatives, opens ominously. The ad, which appeared online Tuesday, targets Xochitl Torres Small, the Democratic candidate in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District. It features a mother…
Four White Supremacists Arrested for Their Role in Charlottesville Violence
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Four white supremacists, “among the most violent individuals present” during the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” weekend, have been arrested on felony conspiracy charges, federal officials said Tuesday. JUST IN: Federal authorities announce arrest of four members of white supremacist group “for committing various acts of…
A California Republican Candidate Is So Desperate for Positive Press That She Quoted Herself in Her Latest Ad
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California congressional candidate Young Kim is “addressing the homeless youth crisis,” according to an ad released by Kim’s campaign this month. In the ad, Kim, a Republican running for a House seat in Southern California’s 39th District, is shown working in her office and chatting…
Government Report Details Trump Administration’s Incompetent Implementation of Family Separation Policy
Genesis, a five-year-old from Honduras, peers through fencing in June along a bridge connecting Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico.Miguel Roberts/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has concluded that the agency was not fully prepared to implement the zero-tolerance policy that separated more than…