1,358 Children and Counting — Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Border Policy
"The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment."
"The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment."
"The number of migrant children locked up by the federal government has surged by more than 20 percent and left designated detention facilities at near-capacity."
"160 American-born children have a parent who could soon be ordered to leave the country; many families are relying on handouts."
"FBI agents and federal prosecutors aren’t evaluated for their allegiance to scientific principles. They’re evaluated on their ability to close cases and win convictions. Therefore, there’s a strong incentive for them to sacrifice sound science for expedience."
"Graham, a retired colonel, has in the past supported the ability to indefinitely detain those captured under the current AUMF and has opposed limits on the president’s ability to conduct war."
"McKinney said he doesn't hold any grudges about the years he was in jail. God, he said, took all of the anger out of his heart."
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"Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works. Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems."
"Instead of shaming disabled consumers who rely on straws, let's hold producers of plastic financially responsible for their waste."