There is indeed a crisis at our Southern border with Mexico. But it does not entail "caravans of illegals" bringing "drugs, crime, and terrorists." The crisis involves the trauma we are inflicting on families by separating children...
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...
Last week, USA Today published an opinion editorial column attributed to Donald Trump titled "Democrats 'Medicare for All' plan will demolish promises to seniors." Immediately, Washington Post fact-checkers got to work. And what they found was nothing short of astounding. It turns...
This week, as the East Coast was preparing for Hurricane Florence, the federal government was prioritizing all available resources to successfully address the storm's aftermath. Just kidding. Actually, as the East Coast was preparing for Hurricane Florence, the...
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,...
"These are animals." "Animals." This is what the President of the United States called illegal immigrants this week at a roundtable discussion in California, where Trump was conferring with law enforcement and officials opposing sanctuary city laws. Trump was...
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"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." This phrase is a popular variation on the original quote first written by author and philosopher George Santayana in his 1905 book titled: The Life of Reason: The...
“NO MORE DACA DEAL!” This is the message Donald Trump sent from his Mar-a-Lago resort Sunday one hour after he wished us all "Happy Easter." In a series of tweets, the president spewed, often in all caps, about...
The Trump administration's "extreme vetting" has adopted a new tactic. Instead of "show us your papers," "show us your social media accounts." The State Department has submitted a proposal that, if approved, would require all immigrant and non-immigrant...
The Trump administration's war on immigration celebrated a win last week when the United States Supreme Court ruled immigrants do not have the right to periodic bond hearings even if they are asylum seekers and have permanent legal...
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...
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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,...
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We don't know who she is yet, but this woman is unbelievable. This disgusting woman "loves that man" because he says all the racist things she and her "family and friends" want to say and are...
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On Saturday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-ILL.) had enough of Donald Trump's fake sympathy for "our great military," and his using military families as pawns in his blame game to "dodge" responsibility for Friday's government shutdown. In...
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Are Americans and the media overreacting to Pres. Donald Trump's "shithole countries" comment? I mean...what's the big deal?!? Haven't most of us used an expletive occasionally? Sure we have. Some of us likely curse even more...