“Since when did the Problem Solvers Caucus become the Child Abuse Caucus?” Progressives slammed House Speaker Pelosi on Thursday for abandoning child protection requirements on border funding and caving to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s ...
Internal documents reveal despair and tedium in one of the nation’s largest shelter networks for unaccompanied minors. (ProPublica) One 16-year-old from Guatemala said he wanted to “quitarme la vida,” or “take my life away,” as ...
On the 55th anniversary of his father’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King III has urged the Trump administration to reunite immigrant families separated under Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy. Speaking in the company of ...
The allegations against the Southwest Key youth care worker are the latest in a series of serious accusations of sexual abuse inside the government’s immigrant youth shelters. This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual ...
You’ve probably seen T-shirts or memes devoted to instructing others to “PUNCH MORE NAZIS.” This sentiment, which invokes Richard Spencer—who doesn’t call himself a “Nazi” or a “white supremacist,” but an “identitarian,” though that basically ...
Over 2,300 immigrant children are currently separated from their parents under President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy, but one six-year-old’s ability to memorize phone numbers kept her connected with her “lost” mother in the United States. Alison Jimena ...
I don’t often share personal experiences in my political writing, mostly because I feel like I’d be sharing stories that no one wants to hear. That still may very well be the case, but seeing ...
In light of the increase in unaccompanied immigrant children held by the Department of Health and Human Services (H.H.S.), the Trump administration is finalizing plans to construct a tent city that could shelter up to ...