OMG! It appears that Donald Trump may have read something I wrote years ago and took my sarcasm seriously as a good idea: It would be a helluva lot cheaper than all the electronic surveillance, aerostat blimps and drones, and a militarized border with a double wall and flaming moat with asbestos alligators with laser … Read more
On Wednesday, a new report (.pdf) by Joanne M. Chiedi, Acting Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services, shed more light into how the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance policy” last year affected thousands of children who were separated from their families at the Mexico border and placed in the custody of the Office … Read more
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