House passes bill Trump hates to give kids in detention camps toothbrushes and soap
The emergency funding bill passed the House despite opposition from 191 out of 194 Republicans.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 26, 2019The emergency funding bill passed the House despite opposition from 191 out of 194 Republicans.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 26, 2019Children are suffering because of Trump, and he wants to blame everybody else, as usual.
By Oliver Willis - June 25, 2019Children are being sent back to a Trump administration facility where they were forced to sit in filth and sleep on cold concrete floors.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 25, 2019Vice President Mike Pence is begging Latinos in Florida to vote for Trump even as Trump doubles down on his anti-immigrant agenda.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 25, 2019Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) claimed that toddlers and kids jailed at the border can ‘leave at any time,’ but choose to stay in unsanitary conditions.
By Emily Singer - June 25, 2019Trump issued a veto threat against a $4.5 billion House bill because it creates protections for children the Trump administration is jailing in unsafe conditions at the border.
By Emily Singer - June 25, 2019As children suffer horrific conditions in border facilities, HHS Secretary Alex Azar claims kids in the jails he runs are just fine.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 24, 2019The White House is accusing the acting Homeland Security secretary of leaking mass deportation plans.
By Emily Singer - June 24, 2019‘I can’t imagine my child being there and not being broken,’ a doctor said after visiting one of the Trump administration’s detention centers for children.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 24, 2019Trump told Telemundo that Hispanic voters think it’s great he is jailing and deporting Latin American immigrants.
By Emily Singer - June 21, 2019Lawyers say children are locked up without adequate food and water, and go weeks without bathing.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 20, 2019In a federal court, Trump’s legal team argued that jailed kids can be denied basic sanitary items like soap and toothbrushes.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 20, 2019Trump announced that ‘millions’ of undocumented immigrant families will be rounded up and deported.
By Emily Singer - June 18, 2019Trump’s action only makes it more likely that desperate people will flee their impoverished home countries and try to come to the U.S.
By Oliver Willis - June 17, 2019The D.C.Circuit Court said the Trump administration cannot strip minors of their right to access health care.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 14, 2019The Trump administration’s own data doesn’t support the idea that huge numbers of ‘fake families’ are crossing the southern border.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 12, 2019Mexico just maneuvered around Trump during immigration talks, according to a report from the Daily Beast.
By Emily Singer - June 12, 2019Data shows that 24 immigrants have died in ICE’s custody since Trump took office, and that doesn’t include migrant children who died in the custody of other agencies.
By Lisa Needham - June 10, 2019John Kelly, who spearheaded Trump’s family separation policy, is now raking in cash from the detainment of unaccompanied minors.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 07, 2019The new half-mile-long, privately funded border wall in New Mexico isn’t doing anything to stop immigrants like it promised.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 06, 2019Agents are senselessly risking the lives of children who need medications like anti-seizure drugs.
By Emily Singer - June 06, 2019The Trump administration is refusing to pay for education services of detained migrant children, despite a court settlement saying they must.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 05, 2019Unified support from Democrats ensured the House passed a bill to create a pathway to citizenship for 2.5 million immigrants.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 04, 2019Dozens of children, some as young as five, were stuck waiting for up to 39 hours in an ICE facility parking lot before being allowed to see their parents.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 04, 2019A border facility near El Paso was found to contain 900 migrants despite a maximum capacity of just 125.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 31, 2019Trump’s ramped-up attacks on immigrants from Central America are being called both ‘cruel and mean-spirited’ and ‘destined to fail.’
By Dan Desai Martin - May 31, 2019Children at the U.S.-Mexico border, some younger than 12, are being detained longer than the legal limit of 72 hours.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 31, 2019The group’s general counsel Kris Kobach did not provide adequate guidance.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 29, 2019Rep. Chip Roy was shockingly dismissive about the six children who have died after being detained at the border.
By Oliver Willis - May 29, 2019Trump wants to charge people who sponsored their immigrant family members for green cards if those family members needed public assistance to get on their feet.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 24, 2019