Tag: immigration

"Kids should not be in detention, period. And even considering putting them Guantánamo Bay is inhumane."

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Penn.) called it "a textbook example of abuse of power and reckless disregard for the rule of law – and it's no 'joking' matter."

"Let's not concede that having refugees in our cities is something to be threatened by."

"Nielsen presided over a [DHS] that showed a blatant disregard for our Constitution, civil rights, and human life. History will judge her."

Or why Donald Trump’s Great Wall Is Viagra for him, but a border disaster.

If President Trump succeeds in his assault on citizenship as an inclusive, irremovable right, then Lady Liberty will find herself, like Ellis Island, a mere reminder of another world, of a lost America, a country that once was a beacon of hope for those fleeing oppression.

Over 80 local law enforcement agencies, from over a dozen states, have agreed to share license plate location information with ICE.

"We cannot continue to spend taxpayer dollars on the President’s manufactured crisis at the border, which is government-sanctioned child abuse."

That new policy is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed in Virginia that says the Trump administration is using migrant children as bait to arrest their undocumented family members.

There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy.