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Traumatizing children in the name of immigration enforcement
There is no honest way to talk about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and children without confronting a brutal truth: the U.S. government is knowingly inflicting trauma on…
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Trump’s cruel immigration policy is devastating children
“Ms. Rachel, can ICE take me?”
“What about my dad? Can they take my dad away?”
“I feel so angry about how ICE is grabbing people out of my neighborhood.”
“I feel traumatized ever…
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Cuban migrants: From exceptional to excluded
According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 2.5 million people of Cuban origin live in the United States, representing about 80% of those who emigrated from Cuba…
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Trump sued over unlawful boat strikes
A coalition of U.S. rights organizations is suing the Trump administration to obtain its documentation outlining the legal justifications for its campaign of military strikes against…
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The Trump Corollary is not foreign policy — it’s imperialism in broad daylight
Let’s stop pretending we don’t know what we’re looking at. The so-called “Trump Corollary” — Washington’s newly declared right to reshape Latin America by force, covert ops, or economic…
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Former lawmakers ask for ban on stock trading by members of Congress
Ninety former members of Congress today urged U.S. House leaders to quickly pass legislation that would “eliminate the persistent appearance of insider trading among members of…
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Trump denounces ‘Affordability’ as ‘Democrat scam’
President Donald Trump on Tuesday blew off U.S. voters’ concerns about affordability, even as polls show most voters blame him for increasing prices on staple goods.
At the start of a…
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“A global force for good” not “Kill Them All”
On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army troops carried out what later became known as the Mỹ Lai massacre, killing hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians. Many of the victims, including women…
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Trump’s Caribbean lawlessness
There is a difference between boldness and lawlessness. What the Trump administration calls a campaign to choke cocaine flows and punish “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean increasingly…
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The end of the “Hug Bibi” era
In his sweeping and unsparing critique of Democratic Party policy toward Israel, former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes argues, in an opinion piece written for The New…
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