“The president signed the executive order days after he said that the only way to end the division of families was through congressional action because ‘you can’t do it through an executive order.'”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/politics/trump-immigration-children-executive-order.html
“That the separations only began after a discretionary decision by the administration shows that Trump’s insistence that Democrats are obstructing a fix is nonsense.”
“If the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it ‘denuclearizes,’ why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/20/cuba-denuclearized-in-1962-why-continue-the-embargo/
“In fact, there is no law that requires families to be separated at the border.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/trump-democrats-separation-policy.html
“The proposed Fair Day in Court for Kids Act would require the government to appoint counsel to unaccompanied children, and it’s important to ask Congress to support its passage.”
Read more: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/children-parents-asylum-immigration.html
“So, where are we? We are back to where we were before Trump initiated his series of angry outbursts, insults, and threats against North Korea. North Korea still has its nuclear weapons and is promising to get rid of them sometime into the future.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/15/the-big-obstacle-to-peace-in-korea/
“The flattening curve pointed to a deep pessimism among bond investors who see the economy fading away its short-term boost from fiscal stimulus and tax cuts.”
“That drug-sniffing dogs must die in the absence of prohibition will not become a real problem unless government chooses to make it so.”
“A confidential informant claimed to have bought pot from him for a total of $100. On April 16, 2015, the task force battered Betton’s door open with a ram, then almost immediately opened fire, releasing at least 29 bullets, nine of which hit Betton. An expert hired by Betton’s legal team estimates that over the course of his lifetime, his medical bills will run between $6 million and $17 million.”
Echoes from the past in modern-day Amerika:
“The agency’s original statement said the group of migrants started to hit him with ‘blunt objects,’ while the new statement makes no mention of any objects.”