“While tearing children away from parents under a policy designed to keep asylum seekers from entering U.S. society, the Trump administration is forcing those same children to pledge their allegiance to the country that is actively trying to expel them.”
“Developmental trauma — trauma experienced in childhood — is much more difficult to heal than trauma suffered as an adult.”
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/20/immigrant-kids-are-suffering-trauma-will-last-years
“Is it a sign of progress that the news media no longer automatically cheers heavy-handed crackdowns by federal agents?”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/time-media-cheered-gestapo-immigration-tactics
“SiiP’s database will include samples from YouTube, Facebook, publicly recorded conversations, voice-over-internet-protocol recordings, and other sources where individuals might not realize that their voices are being turned into biometric voice prints.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/interpol-voice-identification-database/
“This isn’t even the first time five police cameras all conveniently malfunctioned at a critical time.”
“Newly released body camera footage shows two Las Vegas police officers holding their position in a hallway one floor beneath the Oct. 1 gunman for nearly five minutes as rounds are continually fired into the Route 91 Harvest festival crowd below.”
“The policy offers, at most, the illusion of security, purchased at an exorbitant cost to America’s moral reputation.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/trump-travel-ban-terrorism.html
“ICE came into existence in the early 2000s, when the federal government was reorganized and the Department of Homeland Security was created — so it’s a relatively new branch of the federal government. Its creation led to more deportations, which escalated during the Obama administration, especially during his first term.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/28/17514806/abolish-ice-protest-democrats-immigration
“Watching as a U.S. government car pulled away with B in it, Valquiria, an evangelical Christian, did the only thing she could think to do. She looked skyward and asked God to protect her boy.”
“Politicians should honestly confront the question: what are the reasons that lead millions of people to leave their homes? And fashion equally honest and humane solutions.”
Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/22/end-the-wars-to-halt-the-refugee-crisis/