“The justices said in a 5-4 opinion that state government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be compelled to pay a share of union dues for covering the cost of negotiating contracts.”
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html
“A day earlier, Harley-Davidson announced that it would shift some of its production overseas in response to the European Union’s new 31 percent tariff on its imported bikes, which was imposed in retaliation for Mr. Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/business/trump-harley-davidson-tariffs.html
“The memo says the camps would be built on abandoned airfields in California, Alabama, and Arizona.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44585716
“About 2,000 children have been separated from their parents over two months.”
“The stock prices of oligopoly private prison companies Geo Group and CoreCivic have been rising ever since the Trump announcement.”
Read more: http://inthesetimes.com/article/21234/private-prison-trump-family-separation-immigration-ice
“Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-military-industrial-complexs-assault-on-liberty/
“The NSA considers AT&T to be one of its most trusted partners and has lauded the company’s ‘extreme willingness to help.'”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/att-internet-nsa-spy-hubs/
“Millions of Americans are falling for a dangerous and destructive argument about the need for tariffs and other trade barriers.”
Read more: https://banyanhill.com/corporate-foreign-income/
“A visitor from France says she was jogging along the beach south of White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it. So began a two-week nightmare that landed her in a prison jumpsuit.”
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4717060