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The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees "due process of law" in criminal proceedings. The Supreme Court ruled in 1953 that non-citizens are guaranteed due process as well. We have a President who doesn't know -- or care -- about the Constitution. And why oh why can't he stay off Twitter?
Trump tweets he wants to deport immigrants 'with no Judges or Court Cases'--a move which would violate due process
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...t-cases-2018-6
This Los Angeles Times essay explains how Trump is "distorting the truth." I think it would be more accurate to say Trump is making up stories which in his own mind he believes are true.
Trump strays from the truth again and again on immigration
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...624-story.html
Here is an excellent thought-provoking essay by Sarah Bilston, a professor of English literature. She compares Trump's immigration policies to the "Poor Laws" enacted in England in 1835. Children were separated from their parents and forced into workhouses. Many families were never reunited. The laws' "profound inhumanity" inspired Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
Breaking up families? America looks like a Dickens novel
It's 2018 but it sure feels like 1834.
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...-dickens-novel
Fox News' Laura Ingraham said the immigrant detention centers are "essentially summer camps" for children. Really, Laura? Then why are so many children fleeing them? Huh? And the runaways are being branded with the demeaning name UAC (Unaccompanied Alien Child).
15-year-old boy is 42nd child to flee network of migrant shelters along border since October
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/teen-wa...southwest-key/
In a just-released Gallup poll, 87% of Republicans approve of Donald Trump's job performance. Only 5% of Democrats approve and only 38% of independents approve. How can Republican lawmakers continue to support this man after all his lies, bluster, boasts, threats, insults, idiotic tweets, racism and inhumane immigration policies? Meanwhile.....
Tech workers protest government ties as migrant conflict rages
CBS News, Jun 25 2018 3:14 PM
Some employees at Microsoft, Amazon and Google are calling for the companies that hire them to reconsider relationships with the US government, especially work with Immigration & Customs Enforcement, based on ethical grounds. The government ties have come under increasing scrutiny as news of refugee parents and children being separated at the US border has led employees to question how technologies such as geolocation and facial recognition may be used.
Microsoft has a cloud computing contract wth ICE. Google has worked with the Pentagon on an AI program that cold be used for drone strikes. Amazon employees are concerned about how the retail giant's facial recognition program might be used by the Department of Homeland Security. "The employees at technology firms have said, 'Look, our tech is capable of many things, but if we don't rein it in now, it could run away from us and be used for some potentially horrible things,'" said TechRepublic senior reporter Dan Patterson.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tech-wo...gle-microsoft/
Yes, the immigration agency has indeed been perverted by "Trump and his team of white nationalists" but this bill to eliminate it has no more than a zero percent chance of passing.
Democratic Representative Mark Pocan introduces bill to eliminate ICE
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ice/ar-AAz9hCg
The woman who leaked the audio, video and photos had recently quit her job at the detention center because she hated seeing chidren separated from their parents. I was watching MSNBC last night when Rachel Maddow shared the footage. Speaking in Spanish, a worker warns the kids that if they speak to the press they could wind up spending more time in detention and away from their parents. I doubt any of these children or their parents would say Trump has made America "great."
Whisteblower leaks video from New York detention facility where chidren were threatened against speaking to the press
https://www.commondreams.org/news/20...atened-against
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.....Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me....." -- Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus, 1883
"You can't come in." -- Donald Trump, June 26, 2018
Trump urges new US border policy: 'You can't come in'
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cDzC?ocid=AMZN
The Trump administration is resorting to blackmail: Give up your claim to asylum and agree to be deported or we will keep your kids away from you for a long long time. The land of the "Red, White & Blue" is becoming blacker and blacker.
HHS Secretary Alex Azar says administration will not reunite any children with parents in custody
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ad...dixp?ocid=AMZN
Last week the House postponed an immigration bill vote to today -- and, once again, their only action turned out to be inaction.
House rejects Republican immigration bill, ignoring Trump
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...fOTu?ocid=AMZN
Trump is seeking to deport legal immigrants who committed crimes many years ago. Yes sir, that Donald Trump is all heart, isn't he?
It's not just criminals -- ICE is nabbing lawful permanent residents too
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...htmlstory.html
What a contrast! Ronald Reagan: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Donald Trump: "Mexicans send their rapists and drug dealers here. We need to keep Muslims out until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Asylum seekers, you can't come here. I'm going to build a big beautiful wall."
Trump administration may detain migrant families longer than previously allowed
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...msGk?ocid=AMZN
Los Angeles all-news station KNX has been airing comments from some of the protesters. One female detainee was not allowed to see her son for nine months and nine days. One young boy was told he could be taken away from his mother and put up for adoption. And the Trump apocalypse continues.
Protesters hit streets in more than 600 US cities over Trump immigration policy
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/familie...es-2018-06-30/
Several Democratic lawmakers and many thousands of protesters are calling for the abolition of the Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency. Of course that will never happen.
'Even the cops don't like us anymore': Under Trump, ICE is despised and divided
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...630-story.html
Ronald Vitiello is now going to be hated, criticized and condemned by millions of Americans. I'm guessing the man who serves as Director Of Taking Candy From Babies is far more popular than anyone working at ICE.
ICE names new acting director amid immigration turmoil
CBS News, Jun 30 2018 6:51 PM
US Immigration & Customs Enforcement has a new acting director, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced today. Ronald Vitiello, who has been serving as the acting deputy commissioner of US Customs & Border Protection, is now ICE's acting director and deputy director. Vitiello replaces Thomas Homan, who announced in May he would be retiring and leaving his post.
Vitiello became a border patrol agent in 1985 and has worked in law enforcement for more than 30 years. He takes over at a crucial time for the agency. ICE is under scrutiny as President Trump's "zero-tolerance" policies at the southern border have led to family separations, ultimately sparking nationwide protests and calls for ICE to be abolished altogether.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-...ation-turmoil/
Yes sir, that Donald Trump is all heart.
Trump administration gives separated parents two options: Leave the US with your kids -- or leave without them
Rights advocates say the new directive prevents migrant parents who were separated from their kids from asking for asylum in the US.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...s-kids-n888631
These girls were taken from their families, locked in cages in a windowless room, given inadequate food and not allowed to make telephone calls. Trump and the Republicans have no shame, no decency and no conscience -- but we already knew that.
Teen taken at US border tells of 'icebox' cages with 60 girls, some as young as 3
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/te...xii2?ocid=AMZN
The copper statue Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbor. If a statue could cry, Lady Liberty would be weeping continuously in 2017-18. The more appropriate slogan on those goofy caps would have been "Make America Hate Again."
Impact of 'zero tolerance' on display at Texas detention center; one after another, asylum seekers are ordered deported
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...705-story.html
HHS Secretary Alex Azar previously said a little more than 2,000 children had been taken from their parents. He now admits the number is closer to 3,000 -- and about 100 of them are younger than 5. Yes sir, the Trump administration is all heart.
US says it needs more time to reunite families separated at border
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...706-story.html
Under the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest program, immigrants with special skills could join the US military with the promise of being naturalized as United States citizens -- but not anymore. The Trump Administration's war on immigrants continues to ramp up.
US Army reportedly discharging immigrants who enlisted with promises of citizenship
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...ship/23476475/