US politics

Washington, D.C. ( Otherwords.org) – The Supreme Court is a real piece of work. Over the last few days it’s been popping off far-right proclamations like a drunk uncle at Thanksgiving. Except this uncle gets to make the rules in your house, and he can stay there until he dies. Over about 48 hours, the […]

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The Seventh Exclusion: Great Moments in American Racist Immigration History

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I had predicted after Trump’s announcement that he wanted to try to keep Muslims out of the United States that he might well have some success in that endeavor. Courts, as SCOTUS just showed once again, are reluctant to micro-manage the Executive on things like who can enter the country. […]

Immigration

TrumpWorld: A Vast Guantanamo Bay just for Children

Karen J. Greenberg

New York (Tomdispatch.com) – By the time Donald J. Trump threw in the towel, who among us hadn’t seen or heard the chilling videos in which U.S. border officials shamelessly grabbed uncomprehending children and toddlers from their pleading mothers and fathers? Some were told they were being taken to bathe or shower by people with […]

Immigration

What Have We Done? Moral Injury and the Family Separation Policy

Gail Ukockis

Columbus, OH (Informed Comment) – The term “moral injury” usually applies to war veterans who had participated in or witnessed an action that violated their core beliefs of right and wrong. However, this concept could also help us to consider the impact of the family separation policy that took place for several weeks and involved […]

Native Americans

Indian Country Remembers the Trauma of Children Taken from Their Parents

Mark Trahant

Grand Forks, ND (Yes! Magazine) – As Congress prepares to debate separating families at the border, a look back at the U.S.’s past with the cruel practice. Indian Country remembers. This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families. The Trump administration has initiated a zero-tolerance policy on the border. Zero […]

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Sarah Sanders complains about not being served in Restaurant after Urging same Treatment of Gays, Immigrants

Juan Cole

Sara Sanders complained on Twitter about not being served at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia. WaPo reports that the owner, Stephanie Wilkinson, insisted that patrons uphold standards of honesty and compassion, and that Sanders flacks for an “inhumane and unethical” administration, defending Trump’s “cruelest policies.” Wilkinson’s grounds for not serving the White House […]

Immigration

“We Want the Children Free!” “I Really Care!”: Cries from Inside Migrant Detention Camp

Javier Tovar

Otay Mesa (United States) (AFP) – “Where are the children?” several women shout together from behind the detention center wall. “We want the children free!” “Do you hear us?” supporters ask from outside. “What do you need?” This was the short interplay Saturday between hundreds of protesters and people being held at a US detention […]

Immigration

How Trump’s Executive Order Reversing Family Separation just Makes Things Worse

TeleSur

The executive order includes no provision to reunite the 2,300 separated families and illegally proposes to detain children indefinitely. Caracas (TeleSur) – United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday after an international outcry over his immigrant family separation policy at the southern border. The event was reported as Trump ending family separations, […]

Immigration

At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers

Leila Macor

El Paso (United States) (AFP) – Children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border “cry and scream” for their mothers, reaching out for them through the chain-link pens where they are being held, a pediatrician who has visited several Texas processing centers said in an interview. Marsha Griffin, who has monitored conditions on the […]