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With Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate looming, even his go-to of sticking it to immigrants when he’s having a bad day proves elusive.
Next to trying to benefit his personal fortune and bullying foreign governments into helping him win election, Trump’s biggest obsession is with finding as many ways as possible to abuse immigrants who are also people of color.
If you’re an immigrant, you have known blistering rhetoric and tweets for three years. You’ve lived with anti-immigrant policies that are so cruel and extreme that if anything in this world was made for a string of expletives, it’s the Miller-Trump anti-immigrant program.
I had my green card renewed this past Monday, without incident. The entire process took 15 minutes. That’s privilege at work. I’m a college-educated white woman and I was processed in Virginia by a staff who did more to promote the greatness of America during those fifteen minutes than the entire Trump administration has done during the 3 years of that nightmare presidency.
If you’re a child and an immigrant, this was the week you were told that your rights matter less than the rights of suspected terrorists at Gitmo.
On the plus side, the Senate unanimously passed a House bill making cruelty to animals a felony. This is a good thing.
Trump's big beautiful wall has turned into a big beautiful failure as smugglers are sawing through it.
Children cannot give consent to so many things under the law.
Whether it’s when someone rapes children, when children get medical treatment, or when children escape violence, their stories are framed as if they can give consent. We see this with the Jeffrey Epstein case, with medical deferments of deportation, and with asylum cases. This article barely scratches the surface.
We can do better than sending sick people to certain death, forcing them to literally beg Emperor Trump for their lives. We can do better than taking issued student visas away because the student’s friends may have said something we don’t like.
Speaker of the House Pelosi and Senate Democrats are vowing to fight Trump's move to steal $3.6 billion from military projects to fund his wall.
Trump takes his cruelty to a new level by trying to deport sick immigrant children by taking away their medical deferment status.
The Trump administration is trying to create a flu epidemic among detained migrant families by refusing to provide flu vaccinations.
A panel of judges have ruled against Trump and determined soap and sleep are essential to the health and welfare of his caged migrant kids.
For all the bellyaching about undocumented immigrants, we can solve the problem if we perp walk Donald Trump and other CEO’s who benefit the most from their labor.
Donald Trump doesn’t like it when he’s called a racist. We’ve seen him deny it – even trying to argue with a straight face that he’s the least racist person in the world.
It's clear that Donald Trump doesn't believe in the American story because he's never had to actually live it a single day of his life.
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 72 percent of the country supports a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Members of Congress responded to Trump limiting assistance to legal immigrants by slamming the rule change as racist and xenophobic.
The El Paso terrorist attack itself is a dark moment in American history. Donald Trump's shameful response made it much darker.
[Where indicated, this article includes opinion by Tobias J. Grant, legal analyst at PoliticusUSA]
If a president incites one group of Americans to hate another group of Americans, it ought to be an impeachable offense. No matter what your views on the size of government may be, surely we can agree that a President must be duty bound to protect all Americans – not just the ones he likes.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings screamed at Trump's acting DHS Secretary for abusing separated migrant children in detention centers.
The most patriotic thing an American can do is reject Donald Trump’s sh*t hole “vision” for America. It’s not because Donald Trump proposed it. It’s because his “vision” consistently brought war and political instability every time it was tried by ordinary countries in history who were trying to achieve the exceptionalism that America already has. Exceptionalism doesn’t mean perfection.
As the Trump administration prepares a new round of raids targeting immigrant families in major American cities, the president hit the golf course.