The neo-conservative, alt-right, and Republican leaders pulling Trumps strings continue to achieve their goals without any publicity. It's seemingly "small" things like this that ruins the lives of human beings but happen under the radar and get lost in the deluge of awful news.
The U.S. immigration courts will temporarily halt a program that offers legal assistance to detained foreign nationals facing deportation....
Give them credit. Trump's handlers are experts at one thing: knowing how to issue executive orders and memorandums that destroy lives with no checks and balances. It's an evil marvel to see these terrible things occur and almost no one reading this has any idea when they happen.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is ending its practice of automatically releasing pregnant women from detention. This is because of Trump's executive order “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” which requires stricter enforcement of immigration laws. Previously, the agency’s general practice was to release women from detention who were pregnant.
Sometimes we see a headline and click it in disbelief, hoping it can't be true. We wait for the article to load while shaking our head and sometimes it's not as bad as the headline appears. This is not one of those cases. This is beyond belief.
Private-prison companies that allegedly force undocumented immigrant detainees to work for little or no money have a powerful new group of advocates: Eighteen members of Congress.
In August 2017, Trump tweeted about banning transgender troops from our military: http://smartdissent.com/article/transgender-military-ban-tweets-dont-equal-policy-changes
In September 2017, Trump issued an executive order on that ban: http://smartdissent.com/article/update-executive-order-transgender-military-ban-signed
Despite Trump’s promise to defend LGBTQ rights, his White House continues to take aggressive, bigoted steps to block government efforts to fight discrimination. It is doing so by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials unsympathetic to previous practices.
In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which promoted the integration, acceptance, and everyday rights of people with disabilities. But last week, the Republicans in the House of Representatives voted along party lines to undermine a key tenet of that landmark civil rights law. The bill now heads to the Senate.
In Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series, we are examining the White House proposed budget cuts to learn what's hidden beneath the surface and later update based on Congressional budget proposals and actions. This is our second to focus on proposals related to 2019. Since Congress never got their act together for 2018, most of Trump's proposals didn't go into effect fortunately. For 2019, who knows?
Smart Dissent reported back in February 2017 and July 2017 what has now occurred in early January 2018. Since the current Administation nominated Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, the question has not been 'if' but 'when' he would take action to enforce Federal laws contradicted by legalized recreational marijuana use laws in seven states and Washington DC.
Dictators stay in power by not allowing a vote for their position at all or staging an "election" that is controlled in a manner that pre-determines the results. In the United States, something so brazen seems unimaginable. Wake up.