“The NTIA said that its assessment rested ‘in large part on China’s record of intelligence activities and economic espionage targeting the US, along with China Mobile’s size and technical and financial resources.'”
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/03/us-government-asks-fcc-to-deny-china-mobiles-license-request.html
“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
“Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/27/do-immigrants-have-the-right-to-pursue-happiness/
“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
“Children are being needlessly ripped from homes at such an alarming rate that hundreds of parents in one state have gone so far as to create a counter-kidnapping organization to stop it.”
“The memo recommends numerous safety precautions, including not displaying work badges in public, being careful with public conversations and using caution on all social networks. It also recommends DHS employees ‘always keep doors and windows locked’ and ‘be aware of unexpected changes in and around your home.'”
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/homeland-security-memo-today-increased-threats-2018-06-23/
“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