Immigration

TeleSur | – – As the U.S. looks to tighten its policies on refugees and illegal immigrants, people seeking refugee status have been pouring over the Canada-U.S. border. Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters […]

Donald Trump

Trump invents Sweden Terror Attack, Lies about Immigrant Crime

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump made up another alleged terrorist attack at his rally on Saturday, this one about a figment of his imagination that did not actually take place in Sweden on Friday night. It is clear that Trump and his white supremacist mafia (Steve Bannon et al.) despise […]

Arab Americans

Not Over: Trump Ban still ruining life of Iraqi Interpreter for US Military

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by Megan Rose | ProPublica | – – In 2006, when I arrived at Camp Taqqadum in Iraq to embed with the U.S. Marines, I was immediately invited for tea by the unit’s interpreter. A quiet, exceedingly courteous father of three young girls, Haider told me how he spent three months at a time away […]

Displaced and Refugees

Trump’s Refugee Ban Is Even Crueler Than You Think

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By Max Friedman | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – The so-called “Muslim ban” has been compared to U.S. treatment of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust. It’s actually even more draconian. The MS St. Louis, whose Jewish refugee passengers were turned away from the United States shortly before the Holocaust. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) The […]

Donald Trump

Human Costs of Trump’s Muslim Ban continue to Mount

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By Jody Mashek | (Otherwords.org) | – – I’ve seen firsthand how the White House’s cruel ban is impacting moms and kids here in the United States. Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban” are multiplying. Federal judges have suspended the order, which blocks immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspends refugee settlement from everywhere, […]

Authoritarianism

Trump & Co.: The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown?

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By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – WHERE are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill. – Edgar Lee Masters, “The Hill,” Spoon River Anthology Since the election, many observers have rightly worried […]

Immigration

Immigrant Cali Sikhs open Temples to Oroville Dam Refugees

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TeleSur | – – At least seven Sikh temples opened their doors to evacuees. "DO NOT TRAVEL NORTH TOWARD OROVILLE," was the message the Yuba County Office of Emergency Services blasted on its Twitter account Sunday. It was the warning issued to the nearly 200,000 people in Northern California who were told to evacuate that […]

Donald Trump

After Miller’s Mega-Lies, time to rev back up the Reality Based Community

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Stephen Miller, a snot-nosed kid with a bad attitude, advertised as White House senior policy adviser, delivered himself of some stern jeremiads on Sunday on Meet the Press, along with many Big Lies of which Josef Goebbels would be jealous. It is dreary to see a […]

Donald Trump

The real Victors in Judges’ ban on Trump’s Ban: US Universities

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – A three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday denied the Trump administration’s request that the Executive Order banning Muslims from 7 countries from coming to the US be reinstated. It was set aside by a Temporary Restraining Order issued by a Federal […]