The Trump administration on Wednesday announced a proposal to detain undocumented families together indefinitely, replacing the 1997 Flores settlement agreement that set a 20-day limit for holding children, with President Donald Trump saying it would discourage migrants from coming to the US. Because the cruelty is the point. Trump administration to allow longer detention of … Read more
Back in June, the morally depraved Trump administration actually argued before a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can have them sleep on concrete floors in frigid, overcrowded cells, despite the Flores settlement agreement that requires detainees … Read more
ABOVE: Friends, coworkers and family watch as U.S. immigration officials raid several Mississippi food processing plants, including this Koch Foods Inc., plant in Morton, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. The early morning raids were part of a large-scale operation targeting owners as well as undocumented employees. (Photo: Rogelio V. Solis, AP) As Rachel Maddow says, “Watch what … Read more
Above Photo: Vice President Mike Pence, along with Republican Senators John Cornyn (TX), Lindsey Graham (SC), Marsha Blackburn (TN), and (partially hidden in back) Mike Lee (UT) at the migrant detention center in McAllen, TX. Most reporters have been using the pool report from the Washington Post, so let’s use this as a starting point … Read more
The last time was a head-fake to create a media distraction for the emergency border funding appropriation bill. This time may actually be the real deal, but also to create a media distraction from Robert Mueller’s testimony next week. Better to focus media attention on a scandal that actually inures to the benefit of Trump … Read more