Immigration

We’re experiencing more natural disasters than ever before. Climate change is only making them more deadly. Now, Trump is taking critical money from FEMA to further his cruel anti-immigration agenda.

The Trump administration plans to shift at least $155 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief fund to support its policy of returning some migrants to Mexico.

DON'T LOOK AWAY.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union told a federal judge Tuesday [July 30, 2019] that the Trump administration has taken nearly 1,000 migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border since the judge ordered the United States government to curtail the practice more than a year ago.  

"The cruelty is the point."  We are concentrating people who are different than us in camps and denying them services.  You've likely seen in the past few days that our own government is arguing "we" should not have to provide hygiene products like soap or toothbrushes to impoverished, desperate children.  This too:

L. Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, told staff in an email March 12, 2019 that the agency hopes to close all of its overseas offices. 

The Trump administration is preparing to shutter all international offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a move that could slow the processing of family visa applications, foreign adoptions and citizenship petitions from members of the military stationed abroad....  the agency would move to close its international field offices in coming months....

Stephen Miller is likely the most effective Trump-associated criminal.  He is a true believer in his mission to make America a white-only country.  He is silently causing endless destruction through measures fall under the White House control apparently and we hear nothing about.

Only the best right?  Only the best.  Let's be smart about the terrible person nomination to lead ICE.

The Trump administration has tapped Matthew Albence to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the wake of the sudden resignation of its former leader.  Albence.... has risen quickly under the administration.... with the type of hardline approach that Trump may appreciate.

Evil doesn't rest.  While our blue wave led to a Democratic House majority that immediateld held Oversight Hearings on the Trump Family Separations, it's vital to realize this is still happening.  Children, babies, being ripped away from parents. 

Eight months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop separating parents and children at the US-Mexico border, families are still being separated.  Newly released government data shows nearly 250 parents have been separated from their children since June 26.

Matt Whitaker is a disgrace to our JUSTICE Department.  He is a disrespectful person who does not believe in the rule of law, has committed fraud himself, and illegally works for Trump rather than on behalf of the American people.  We have no idea how he went from a nobody criminal stealing money from old women to acting Attorney General.  What a disaster.

You are excused if the headline of this post left your jaw dropped, unable to muster anything but 'WHAT?'

The Justice Department has acknowledged errors and deficiencies in a controversial report issued a year ago that implied a link between terrorism in the United States and immigration....

Expanding the number of immigrants rounded up into jails isn’t just policy; it’s big business. GEO Group expects its earnings to grow to $2.3 billion this year. Like other private prison companies, it made large donations to Trump’s campaign & inaugural.

These are dangerous times for undocumented immigrants. ICE has been super-charged by the Trump administration. And ICE’s empowerment has been lucrative for the companies that both cage and employ immigrants...