Two designers and defenders who executed the Trump administration’s monstrous family separation policy are in the news, posing a test for whether the rest of us will play a role in normalizing or ostracizing those individuals and the administration involved in this moral stain on America. Yesterday, former DHS...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: Dara Lind: “Trump’s Asylum Ban Could Apply Retroactively to Thousands of Migrants Even Though Officials Promised It Wouldn’t” Will We Normalize or Ostracize Those Involved in Executing and Defending Family Separation? English Common Dreams Making America Crueler Again: Trump’s Ugly New Anti-Immigrant Wave By Arnold Isaacs...
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The Trump administration’s relentless effort to demonize immigrants includes measures that raise serious civil liberties concerns. A new program that seeks to collect DNA samples and hugely expand an FBI database is one example. How extensive the “Constitution free zone” where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can operate with...
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English Politico Trump aides nix his picks to take over DHS By Anita Kumar and Daniel Lippman October 21, 2019 CNN White House personnel director told Trump that Cuccinelli isn’t eligible for DHS chief By Jeremy Diamond, Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, October 21, 2019 NPR Justice Department Announces...
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Once again, the Republican Party has a date with history and its future as an institution. The inquiry into a potential impeachment of President Donald Trump puts them before a large mirror, and they will have to decide if the sad image that reflects back is what will define...
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The scale of the Trump administration’s unconscionable family separation policy continues to widen. As Courthouse News reports, “the federal government likely separated an additional 1,250 immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border before formally announcing its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy, a Health and Human Services official told...
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With just over a year until November 2020, Emily Glazer, Joshua Jamerson, and Jim Carlton, writing for the Wall Street Journal, spotlight Latino voters’ high turnout in 2018 and what it could mean for 2020. As the article notes, Latino turnout in 2018 jumped 96% nationally from the 2014...
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De nueva cuenta el Partido Republicano tiene una cita con la historia y con su futuro como institución. La pesquisa en torno al potencial impeachment del presidente Donald Trump los coloca frente a un enorme espejo y deberán determinar si la triste imagen que se refleja es la que los definirá,...
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America’s Voice Previously Unreported 1,250 Children Traumatized By Family Separations Offer Reminder Why Fortune Should Rescind Summit Invitation to Kirstjen Nielsen ICYMI: “Democrats Seek to Build on 2018 Gains With Latino Voters” La encrucijada del Partido Republicano English Associated Press Trump Outstripping Obama on Pace of Executive Orders October...
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His voice, his words were not just only phonetically admirable, but morally convincing, filled with a spirituality even in the midst of an atmosphere as toxic as the political world he had to confront. Elijah Cummings, who died at the age of 68 this past Thursday, leaves a moral...
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