A second migrant child detained at the United States’ Southern border in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody has died. 12 minutes before Christmas day, eight-year-old Guatemalan boy Felipe Gómez Alonzo succumbed to an undisclosed illness...
On Monday, a reporter asked Donald Trump how he felt seeing images of unarmed women and children fleeing border agents' tear gas attack on them. Trump replied: “I say, why are they there? First of all, the tear...
So, about that "zero tolerance" policy toward immigration... The same day the Trump administration missed the deadline federal judge Dana Sabraw imposed to reunite all 102 children under age 5 separated from their parents at the Southern border with Mexico, the Department...
This week, the Trump administration tested the limits of its anti-immigrant stance by admitting (after denying) and reaffirming its practice of divorcing refugee children from their parents crossing into the United States from the southern border. Public...
So much for "hating" separating children from their parents and incarcerating them in detention facilities at our southern border. Friday, Donald Trump tried blaming Democrats for the inhumane anti-immigration practice that has separated 1,995 children from 1,940 parents at southern border...
1,995. That is how many children were separated from 1,940 parents at southern border crossings in just the six weeks between April 19 and May 31, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data the Associated Press obtained and published Friday. This means, per day,...
Six months ago, Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico in the worst disaster ever to hit the small Caribbean island. In those six months little has changed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is still distributing food and water...
I think people are always surprised that Mexico does indeed have an Olympic ski team. What's not surprising is that they always seem to have the BEST uniforms. This year? They're Day of the Dead—Dia...
Soon to retire, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez of Illinois could handle no more of  Pres. Donald Trump's first State of the Union address on Tuesday before standing up and leaving. Quickly. I'd say "stormed out" but...
Arizona State Capitol (image courtesy 2candle, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
There have been some pretty shameful and disturbing displays of out-and-out racism since Donald Trump's upset victory. But one of the worst to date may have taken place on Thursday at the Arizona State Capitol....
In 2015, when still a candidate for president, Donald Trump promised that, when elected, he would assemble a deportation force. Few were taking him seriously at the time, so when he proposed deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants,...
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning, and she quickly walked into a line of questions she clearly wasn't prepared for. Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy (VT) asked Nielsen about President...
The Trump administration's white-washing of the country continues full-bore as it announced Monday it is set expel nearly 200,000 Salvadorans currently living in the United States under Temporary Protected Status (TPS). This is an extension of the...
Today in Trumplandia (the crazy world that exists inside Pres. Donald Trump's brain), the news is that "DACA activists and Hispanics" are going to totally be falling in love with Republicans and "their president." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948211438472089600 Sir...that is...
In the wake of the tax bill, President Donald Trump shifted his confrontational tactics. After the president signed the partisan legislation, the White House changed its tone. To that end, the administration announced it will...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." One of the promises President Donald Trump made on the campaign trail was to deny millions of refugees admission to...
If you've been at all paying attention the past year, you know the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue doesn't really care much about us--unless we're rich, or part of the 34 percent still holding...
Upon assuming her role as the nation's education advocate, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos decided to rescind support requiring the U.S. Education Department to investigate loan servicing companies’ past conduct before the government awards lucrative contracts. Interestingly, these are the...
It appears as though 4,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients will be granted a filing extension after requisite documents were reported "late." On November 10, the New York Times reported slow mail delivery was responsible. However, a lawsuit...
Cliffside Park High School (image courtesy Jim.henderson, part of public domain)
Last week, a high school class in Cliffside Park, New Jersey played host to one of the most staggeringly racist incidents in recent memory. When a teacher overheard some of her students speaking Spanish, she...