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
On Sunday, the New York Times in conjunction with the El Paso Times published an investigative report on the horrible conditions inside the Clint, Texas migrant detention center. Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex. (excerpt): [I]nside the secretive site that is now on the front lines of the southwest … Read more
Huffington Post reports, Trump: Raids Against Immigrant Families Are Back On After July 4th: President Donald Trump announced Monday that the immigration raids he threatened to launch last month are back on. “After July 4, a lot of people are going to be brought back out,” Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office, per … Read more