As the Biden administration copes with the rise in immigrants and unaccompanied minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, the Department of Homeland Security is planning to transform immigration facilities located in South Texas into “Ellis Island-style rapid-processing hubs,” according to the Washington Post’s description of Department of Homeland Security draft plans. …
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Jennifer Harrison, founder of the right-wing group AZ Patriots, was arrested in Arizona this week on suspicion of identity theft. Harrison became a viral sensation back in August after a video surfaced of her wearing a MAGA hat at a Tucson City Council meeting while protesting an immigration proposal that …
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President Donald Trump is frustrated that migrants continue to exist. He’s taking it out on his own administration. On Sunday, the president jettisoned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who has been carrying out his historically aggressive approach to the border, because she refused to break the law. A few days …
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Government video released Monday showed migrant children held in cages. Audio published that same day by ProPublica captured the wails of kids crying out for their parents as they’re mocked by Border Patrol agents. And photographs taken recently at the U.S.-Mexico border recently expose minors lost, confused and scared. Over …
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Ms. L, as the American Civil Liberties Union identified her, is a Congolese woman who sought asylum in the United States last November. She feared imminent death amid the escalating violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence that has displaced millions of residents. I learned about her circumstance reading …
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There are a few high stakes games of chicken being played simultaneously on Capitol Hill, and, as of now, neither side is signaling a willingness to back down. On Wednesday, Democratic leaders said the vast majority of their party would oppose another short term spending bill unless Republicans agree to …
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