Washington, DC | AFP | – The Supreme Court dealt President Donald Trump’s attempt to crack down on illegal immigration a blow Friday when it rejected a White House bid to implement his asylum ban on Central Americans. The high court declined to overturn a block placed by the San Francisco federal appeals court on […]
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Immigration
Little Jakelin’s Death in Border Patrol Site a ‘Systemic Failure’: Congressman
Washington, United States | AFP | – The US lawmaker who led a delegation to New Mexico Tuesday to look into the death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl in US Border Patrol custody blamed the tragedy on glaring systematic failures. Jakelin Caal died last week in hospital in El Paso, Texas, after being arrested with […]
Top 6 Reasons Dems shouldn’t Allocate a single Cent for Trump’s Idiotic Wall
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s televised badgering of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi was made for cable television, which predictably looped it over and over again on Tuesday and assembled “panels” of “experts” solemnly to parse Trump’s insane meanderings, Schumer’s hamming it up for the cameras, and Pelosi’s pitifully forlorn call for a […]
Trump says it’s a Scary Time for Young Men; Imagine the Boys detained in his Immigrant Camps
As the Brett Cavanaugh controversy rages on, overlooked is a news item about the tent city set up for the migrant children in Tornillo, Texas. According to the New York Times, in the past few weeks around 1,600 children were rounded up from detention centers and foster homes to be moved into this new version […]
Is the Trump Administration Drugging the 13,000 Detained Immigrant Children?
By Jerry Flores, University of Toronto and Kati Barahona-Lopez, University of California, Santa Cruz There are almost 13,000 detained migrant children in the United States, according to several recent news reports. This number has increased six-fold since 2017, despite the successful reunification of some families. You might remember the horrifying images of children inside chain-link […]
DHS: Immigrants who Accepted Food Stamps to be Denied Permanent Residency (Green Cards)
Washington (AFP) – US immigrants who get public benefits like food stamps or housing vouchers could be denied green cards, under a new proposal from President Donald Trump’s administration. Trump came to power pledging to make immigration to the United States more difficult, and reduce the number of people allowed to stay in the country. […]
US, having created 4 mn Refugees in Iraq, Slashes Immigrant cap to 30,000
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the Trump administration would slash refugee admissions to 30,000 in 2019, down from 45,000 in 2018 and from 85,000 in fiscal 2016. Refugees come in numbers to the US when there is a crisis in their own country. At the same time, US policies toward refugees in […]
Busting the Myth of Immigrant Crime
San Francisco (Yes! Magazine) – Trump’s White supporters—not immigrants—are bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime. President Donald Trump’s core supporters consist of 60 million to 80 million American adults, 90 percent of them White and four-fifths age 40 and older. They score high on unofficial measures of “racial resentment,” anger at perceived “loss of status” […]
US Editorials called the Polish immigrant Grandparents of Laura Ingraham ‘Undesirables’
Professional bigot Laura Ingraham, ensconced in the primo 10 pm slot at Fox Cable News, has delivered herself of one of her typical Know-Nothing pronouncements on immigration to the US. Laura Ingraham: "The America we know and love doesn't exist anymore. Massive demographic changes have been foisted on the American people, and they are changes […]
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