“In turning to greater use of emigration controls, the US is embracing ever greater control of its domestic population and its resources. Such oversight of US citizens, however, was almost completely unknown in the nineteenth century.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/you-now-cant-leave-us-unless-irs-lets-you
“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
“The United States is one of the only countries to tax based on citizenship, not residency. And the U.S. government has tightened its rules in recent years to make it more difficult for Americans to evade taxes by hiding money offshore. For Americans who reside in foreign countries, that can make it more difficult to find financial institutions who will let them open accounts.”
“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
“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.”
“Is it a sign of progress that the news media no longer automatically cheers heavy-handed crackdowns by federal agents?”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/time-media-cheered-gestapo-immigration-tactics
“The policy offers, at most, the illusion of security, purchased at an exorbitant cost to America’s moral reputation.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/trump-travel-ban-terrorism.html
“Watching as a U.S. government car pulled away with B in it, Valquiria, an evangelical Christian, did the only thing she could think to do. She looked skyward and asked God to protect her boy.”
“It was no place for human beings, let alone for families with small children.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/opinion/family-detention-immigration.html
“Rhodes has been described as being so trusted and close to Obama that he was ‘in the room’ for almost every foreign policy decision of significance that Obama made during his eight years in office.”