“The Barn is openly used by humanitarian aid groups that provide food, water, and medical care to the adults and children who come stumbling out of the Arizona desert exhausted, dehydrated, and sometimes on the verge of death.”
“If Prop 66 had been in place when Mr. Benavides was convicted, he’d almost certainly be dead. He’d never have lived to see his exoneration.”
“The Trump administration is going a step further by wrenching children from the arms of asylum-seekers, apparently as a way of inflicting gratuitous cruelty to discourage new arrivals.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/opinion/family-separation-border-immigration.html
“Cuomo described multiple incidents in which he said ICE agents stormed private property without warning, without identifying themselves and without a warrant to arrest undocumented immigrants.”
“John Collins was standing outside the milk house at his dairy farm this morning when he heard yelling coming from inside. He ran in, he says, and saw his worker, Marcial de Leon Aguilar, pinned up against the window by armed men.”
“It’s a story of how bureaucracy is used to grind down people by distributing their misery among as many public offices as possible.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/25/chicago-debt-impound-cars-innocent
“Meanwhile, thousands of people who were arrested previously for what is now legal in many places continue to languish in prisons.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/20/marijuana-legalization-arrests-increase/
“The Socialist Party of Great Britain has a ready-made answer to all those questions. The misery is the fault of capitalism. I’m not kidding.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-ongoing-implosion-of-venezuelan-statism/
“The prohibition ‘makes outlaws out of perhaps thousands of Nashvillians who…are simply trying to earn an honest living,’ according to the suit. There are at least 1,600 home-based enterprises in operation in the city, and since many such companies are forced to operate illegally, the true count is most likely even higher.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/03/24/it-shouldnt-be-illegal-for-rec
“Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the Obama-era policy of non-interference in marijuana-friendly states.”