“Like a number of practices, including mass deportations, it builds on the legacy of the Obama Administration, which set in motion the process of reëxamining old naturalization files.”
“In 2015, I asked President Obama to reverse course & close the for-profit baby jails (‘family detention centers’) he opened in Dilley & Karnes City, Texas. What he said shook me to my core.”
Read more: https://twitter.com/ImmCivilRights/status/1008902662828511232?s=19
“Authorities believe that the assaults had been going on for months and perhaps years; the girl’s mother was allegedly blackmailed by the deputy to ‘place her in fear’ so she would not report the assaults.”
“‘This, I think, is a perfect example, of why are borders need to be secured,’ Dimmit County Sheriff Marion Boyd said.”
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/5-dead-suv-chased-border-patrol-crashes-south-213544737.html
“Subsequent reporters pushed back against the false claims the press secretary was making—namely that their family separation policy was ‘the law’ and not a specific policy choice pushed by President Trump and promoted at the DOJ by Sessions on multiple occasions.”
Read more: https://www.mintpressnews.com/biblical-enforce-law/244044/
“From the federal Department of Homeland Security down to local police departments, governmental use of biometric facial recognition software has gained a startling amount of traction in recent years. And these agencies are getting help from big business, to boot.”
Read more: https://theweek.com/articles/779196/governments-creepy-obsession-face
“The administration argued that it was just enforcing the law.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/politics/melania-trump-family-separation.html
“Thirty-one states now allow law-enforcement officials to access license photos to help identify potential suspects.”
“America got along just fine for 225 years before ICE, the monstrous child of the wars on drugs and terrorism, was spawned. It can do so again.”
Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2018/06/11/abolish-ice
“Senator Coleman Livingston Blease hailed from the hills of South Carolina. In 1925, he entered Congress committed, above all else, to protecting white supremacy.”
Read more: http://theconversation.com/how-crossing-the-us-mexico-border-became-a-crime-74604