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Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone

As the White House faces court orders to reunite families separated at the border, immigrant children as young as 3 are being ordered into court for their own deportation proceedings, according to attorneys in Texas, California and Washington, D.C. via Immigrant toddlers ordered to appear in court alone How is this not a bigger story?

Bourbon Is the Latest Victim of Trump’s Trade War

LONDON—It’s becoming a bourbon-soaked world out there. For about a decade now, more and more whiskey drinkers internationally, far beyond the drink’s home state of Kentucky, have been developing a taste for the American spirit. And Europe, which was the single largest destination for U.S. via Bourbon Is the Latest Victim of Trump’s Trade War

GOP Has At Least Four Actual Nazi Sympathizers On Their Ballot

The next time someone tries to tell you that “both sides are equally bad,” please inform them that the Republican Party has at least four candidates one can reasonably assume are Nazi Party sympathizers. And the Democratic Party does not. via GOP Has At Least Four Actual Nazi Sympathizers On Their Ballot This should be… Continue reading GOP Has At Least Four Actual Nazi Sympathizers On Their Ballot

Surely the Trump Administration Will Follow All the Rules When Stripping People of Citizenship

the most immediately pressing issue is that this administration cannot be trusted to restrict the task force’s operations to investigating people who allegedly lied during the naturalization process. Trump’s White House has displayed a generalized hostility to immigration best summed up in its proposal to cut legal immigration in half. At the border, Attorney General… Continue reading Surely the Trump Administration Will Follow All the Rules When Stripping People of Citizenship

Trump Calls His Supporters ‘Elite,’ Doesn’t Understand How Populism Works

This is not, of course, how populism works. It trades on either cultural or economic grievance. One’s enemies possess all the privilege, and we the people must take it back. Once you have declared that you already possess the privilege, the whole basis for it disintegrates. via Trump Calls His Supporters ‘Elite,’ Doesn’t Understand How… Continue reading Trump Calls His Supporters ‘Elite,’ Doesn’t Understand How Populism Works

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The Civility Debate Has Reached Peak Stupidity She did not use an official government Twitter account to discuss the episode, as Sanders did later. She did not use the power of the Oval Office to try and destroy someone’s business, as the president* found time to do later. She asked the staff what they wanted… Continue reading Untitled

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ICE Plans to Start Destroying Records of Immigrant Abuse, Including Sexual Assault and Deaths in Custody The ACLU and partners submitted public comments opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s request to the National Archives and Records Administration last year. As a result of the campaign and overwhelming opposition from the public, NARA decided to review ICE’s… Continue reading Untitled