“The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/nsa-call-records-purged.html
“Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to ‘spin’ information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland’s mayor.”
“They were concerned that the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration was preventing them from carrying out the agency’s other duties.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/latino/394757-more-than-a-dozen-ice-agents-call-to-abolish-agency
“This terrible menace to national security ‘was kidnapped by guerillas in El Salvador in 1990 and was coerced into undergoing weapons training and performing forced labor in the form of cooking, cleaning, and washing their clothes.’ Previously, the left-wing guerrillas ‘forced [her] to witness her husband, a sergeant in the Salvadoran Army, dig his own grave before being killed.'”
Read more: http://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/08/justice-department-rejects-salvadoran-wo
“The overseas agency MI6 and the domestic service MI5 were involved in hundreds of torture cases and scores of rendition cases.”
“The TSA is effective at violating our liberty, but it is ineffective at protecting our security.”
“Two-thirds of the US lives inside this so-called 100-mile border zone, which includes many major cities and several entire states, including Florida, Michigan, Maine and Hawaii, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/23/us/maine-new-hampshire-border-patrol-checkpoints/index.html
“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