Do Immigrants Have the Right to Pursue Happiness?
"Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says."
Captured And Enslaved? U.S. Says You Provide “Material Support” To Terrorists
"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.'"
88% of Missing Sex Trafficked Kids Come from US Foster Care
"Children are being needlessly ripped from homes at such an alarming rate that hundreds of parents in one state have gone so far as to create a counter-kidnapping organization to stop it."
“Abolish ICE” is becoming more than just a protest cry
"ICE came into existence in the early 2000s, when the federal government was reorganized and the Department of Homeland Security was created — so it’s a relatively new branch of the federal government. Its creation led to more deportations, which escalated during the Obama administration, especially during his first term."
End the Wars to Halt the Refugee Crisis
"Politicians should honestly confront the question: what are the reasons that lead millions of people to leave their homes? And fashion equally honest and humane solutions."
150 Organizations Condemn Trump’s Call for Execution For Drug Offenses
"The US has never brought a death penalty case for a drug offense, but following the president's call for executions last spring, Attorney General Sessions sent a memo to prosecutors urging them to consider seeking the death penalty in some cases."
Police databases, key to Trump’s opioid crackdown, push addicts into black market
"Civil rights advocates and medical groups are arguing the databases should be used to identify problem patients and get them into treatment. The American Medical Association calls for the databases to be placed under health departments rather than the police agencies and disciplinary boards that control most of them."
Why Doesn’t Outrage At U.S. Imprisoning Children Extend To U.S. Killing Children?
While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries."
American held in ICE custody for 1,273 days just one of many
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews."
US military plans migrant internment camps amid crackdown
"The memo says the camps would be built on abandoned airfields in California, Alabama, and Arizona."