Trump is using a global pandemic to attack immigrants, especially children.
Since the coronavirus broke out, the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrant children alone — in some cases, without notifying their families.
Trump is using a global pandemic to attack immigrants and reinstate family separation.
Federal immigration officials are trying to separate families in the midst of a pandemic, saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have told parents detained with their children at migrant family jails that they can either agree to have their children as young as one released without them—or remain jailed together indefinitely.
Last week, I started to read a tweet that said Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, a former defense contractor lobbyist with no qualifications to lead the strongest military in history, was reallocating defense funds. I immediately thought it would have something to do with mitigating the impact of COVID-19. Silly me.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is directing Pentagon budget planners to defer $545 million worth of construction projects... in Europe meant to counter Russian aggression - to pay for Trump’s border wall with Mexico.
Another inexcusable proposal by the Trump administration. Maybe our title saying "shockingly" is wrong because what's shocking about Republicans seeking to harm people?
New White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is working with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to see how to reduce wage rates for foreign guest workers on American farms, in order to help U.S. farmers struggling during the coronavirus...
U.S farmers who say they are struggling... the industry was already hurting because of Trump's tariff war with China.
A federal judge on Sunday March 1, 2020, ruled that Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, was unlawfully appointed.
Nearly two years ago in July 2018, Smart Dissent posted about a new task force under US Citizenship and Immigration Services to revoke citizenship - click our post here.
In October 2019, Smart Dissent posted that the task force was well underway, well-funded, and going after Americans - click our post here.
On Monday [January 27, 2020], the Supreme Court did something that’s become quite familiar in the Trump age: It reinstated a harsh new immigration policy that had been blocked by lower courts. This particular policy, known as the “public charge” rule, makes it easier for the United States to exclude lower-income immigrants.
The Trump regime is considering adding seven more countries to its travel ban, the majority again will be Muslim. Trump is doubling down on his bigotry and xenophobia.
The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries...
A document outlining the plans — timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Trump’s January 2017 executive order — has been circulating the White House. But the countries that would be affected if it moves forward are blacked out...
The United States asylum policy is to demand children sleep on the streets in Mexico in encampments while tricking them because they're never going to give them asylum. This is pure evil trickery happening on our watch with little awareness and outrage.
Trump is working to deport young people despite promising to protect them, and before the Supreme Court rules. This monstrous action cannot move forward.
In an escalation of its pursuit of undocumented immigrants, the Trump administration is moving to deport members of the very group that seemed until a few years ago the most protected: DACA recipients.