US politics

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 […]

African-Americans

Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet

AFP

Paris (AFP) – The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police in the United States has a corrosive impact on the mental health of black Americans, researchers reported Friday. The frequency of these killings has been cited as symptomatic of deeply rooted racism, and is in any case […]

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Not only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int’l Law

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Family Separation Policy that Trump has “temporarily” set aside (in favor of indefinite detention of entire families) has in some ways obscured what is really going on in Trump’s refugee policy overall. In essence, the Trump administration is attempting gradually to abolish the acceptance by the US of asylees, […]

Immigration

Look Deeper: Child Detention and the US’s Paramilitary Politics Abroad

John Buell

Southwest Harbor, ME (Informed Comment) – Attorney General Sessions didn’t lose any sleep over those children forcibly separated from their parents. He maintained most of the asylum seekers will be denied because “many of them . . . like to make more money . . .” Unfortunately, however, when children are used as bargaining chips […]

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It’s all about the Midterms: Trump took those Children Hostage to Stoke his Base

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Journalists have almost certainly misunderstood the Trump White House when they pen this morning’s flurry of articles and television commentary about the White House abruptly being “worried” about the fall-out of the Family Separation Policy announced in May by John Kelly and reaffirmed this month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions […]