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The organizer of a far-right rally last year in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly is planning to hold a rally near the White House in Washington on the first anniversary of the event, federal officials said on Wednesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday said it plans to continue pursuing its lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump's policies concerning the treatment of immigrant families trying to enter the country.
The Trump administration is using the military budget – the same one we use to bomb terrorists and wage wars – to go after these families.
On Wednesday in Duluth, Trump supporters again proved that they would happily follow this president off a cliff if he asked them.
History will not look back kindly on Trump, and the administration's push to separate kids from their parents at the border will only cement that fact.
Trump signed an executive order requiring that immigrant families be detained together when they are caught entering the country illegally for as long as their criminal proceedings take.
While the change may end a policy that drew a rebuke from Pope Francis and everyone else from human rights advocates to business leaders, it may also mean immigrant children remain in custody indefinitely.
In November, anybody who stands with this administration as they indefinitely hold these families in detention centers should be sent packing.
Award-winning journalist John Heilemann said that Trump and Republicans must be made to pay a price for his child separation policy by the American people voting for Democrats in November.
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Heilemann said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House:
I have found the last week or so and particularly the last 48 hours or so, some of the most disheartening and appalling period of my entire adult life covering politics and watching what’s been happening in this what happened today is really an easy story. The president bowed to political pressure. We have not seen him do that often. We have seen many politicians do the president usually tries to push his way through. It was undeniably intense and he folded. It’s great. It should be heartening to some people that it is possible for this president to be pressured to stop from doing vile things.
According to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Bible justifies ripping migrant children from their parents’ arms. Last week Sessions cited apostle Paul’s “clear and wise command” when defending the administration’s new practice. Sessions also said that the Trump administration policy of separating families is “not unusual or unjustified.”
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a frequent critic of Republican President Donald Trump, intends to spend $80 million helping Democratic candidates in November's U.S. congressional elections, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a frequent critic of Republican President Donald Trump, intends to spend $80 million helping Democratic candidates in November's U.S. congressional elections, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The Trump White House was pretty down today as the President undid the order they all pretended he never made and then defended him for making.
An executive ordered signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday directs the U.S. Justice Department to seek a modification of a court order to permit families that enter the United States illegally to be detained together until their criminal proceedings are concluded
President Donald Trump, addressing what his administration has characterized as an unwanted side effect of his zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration, signed an executive order on Wednesday to keep families who illegally cross the U.S. southern border together as they await immigration proceedings.
American and United airlines want nothing to do with the Trump administration’s family separation policy as they have asked the White House to please fly their kidnapped children on someone else’s airline.
Trump's cave exposes the fact that his blaming of Democrats and Congress for the child separations was a complete lie, and he has been humiliated.
Trump told reporters that he would be signing something soon to keep families together at the border, which could be the DHS order ending family separation.
The AP tweeted:
BREAKING: Trump says he'll be "signing something" on immigration, wants to keep migrant families together.
Montel Williams has had it. The television personality wrote that he will not vote or give money to any Republican who doesn't stand up to this "ammoral sh*t show" Donald Trump calls a presidency.
At 12:45 in the morning, these young girls who were separated from their parents on the Southern border and brought to New York were moved on the streets of East Harlem according to an exclusive by Spectrum News NY1. The reporters heard them speaking Spanish, and saw little children covered in blankets and put into a car.
It is being reported that the Department of Homeland Security is drafting an order to end family separation, but Trump may not sign it.
For the next year, Vasquez languished in the crowded detention center. She repeatedly asked an immigration judge for bond so she could await her day in court back with her family. And repeatedly, bond was denied as ICE argued that she was a flight risk. Even after a judge ruled that she had the right to stay legally and permanently in the United States, she was kept locked up for five more months as ICE fought the decision.