“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.”
“Now the FBI has managed to anger both major political parties and much of the country. It’s demonstrated its capacity for political meddling and misuse of power—even if people disagree on who was on the receiving end. That offers a rare opportunity to pull the plug on a dangerously powerful agency at a moment when its potential for bias, arrogance, insubordination, and plain incompetence are on public display. Let’s kill the FBI while we can.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/19/after-the-ig-report-lets-kill-the-fbi-wh/print
“Flattering Kim with a few meaningless comments designed to foster goodwill is absolutely mild in comparison with the tangible support the US lends to other dictatorships.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/429889-trump-kim-us-dictators/
“Even in the Trump era — when the press is openly clashing with a president — bombing still provides push-button presidential redemption.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-pro-war-media-deserve-criticism-not-sainthood/
“This appears to be an expansion of a 2017 program that sought social media information only from a subset of initially suspicious visa applicants.”
“Join the hundreds of foster parents across the United States who are meeting the needs of these vulnerable children and youth in the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Program.”
Read more: http://www.usccb.org/about/children-and-migration/foster-care/index.cfm
“‘Many kids are having nightmares, can’t eat, can’t sleep … don’t know where their parents are. The last image they have of their parents is shock and fear … the memory never goes away.'”
“ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, published the audio of children crying ‘Mami’ and ‘Papi’ while at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility on Monday.”
Read more: https://people.com/human-interest/border-patrol-agent-jokes-migrant-children-separated-parents/
“Children as young as 18 months who arrive with their parents have been forced into government custody while the adults serve brief sentences for the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry before going to immigrant detention centers. In some cases, they are deported without their children.”
“The cause of the most serious problems in Obamacare can be summarized in a single word: Dumping. Group plans are dumping their sickest, most costly enrollees on the individual market. Within that market, health plans are dumping their most costly enrollees on each other. And individuals are dumping costs on other individuals by waiting to insure until they get sick.”