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Stephen Miller Is a Trenchant Ghoul, Migrant Children Edition

The stain that the Trump administration’s disastrous family separation policy left behind is even bigger than you…

Ashley Reese

11/19/20 10:52AM

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11/10/20

Lawyers Still Can't Find the Parents of 666 Migrant Children

More than two years after the Trump administration formally implemented its family separation policy, lawyers still…

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Lawyers Are Still Struggling To Reunite Over 500 Migrant Children With Their Parents

The Trump Administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy led to the forced separation of hundreds of migrant…

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Justice Department Officials Knew 'Zero Tolerance' Border Policy Would Lead To Family Separation

The New York Times has obtained a draft investigation report on the Trump administration’s former “zero tolerance”…

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Secretly Recorded Tapes of Melania Trump Reveal Her Frustration At Criticism Over Immigration Policies

On Thursday night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 exclusively aired a tape of Melania Trump secretly recorded by…

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Kirstjen Nielsen Is Trying to Reinvent Herself as a Woman Who 'Spoke Truth to Power'

On Wednesday, former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was for some reason given a platform to speak at…

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The Trump Administration Created a Real-Life Sophie's Choice

Migrants at the border are facing increasingly nightmarish scenarios—sleeping on concrete and housed in centers…

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Things Working As They're Supposed to

“It feels like a jail, and they’re treating them like they’re in jail,” Joseph Kennedy III, a Democratic…

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John Kelly Is Now in the Business of Detaining Children

John Kelly, the former White House chief of staff who advocated for separating families at the border, has joined…

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'How Much More Evil Can You Get?': Immigrant Rights Activists Brace For Upheaval

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, the face of the Trump administration’s inhumane family…

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This Is Kirstjen Nielsen's Legacy

Kirstjen Nielsen may no longer be the head of the Department of Homeland Security, but the consequences of the…

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Therese Patricia Okoumou Is Asking Supporters to Come to Her Bail Hearing On Friday

Therese Patricia Okoumou, who gained national fame over the summer after she climbed the Statue of Liberty last July…

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Therese Patricia Okoumou Climbs Southwest Key Headquarters to Protest Child Detention

Actual hero and climber of structural injustice, Therese Patricia Okoumou was arrested on Wednesday for scaling the…

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Ivanka Trump Says She Is Not 'President of All Women's Issues'

Ivanka Trump, women’s empowerment genius, has helpfully clarified that she’s not here to address all women’s issues,…

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The Trump Administration Says Fixing the Child Welfare Crisis It Caused Would Cause A Child Welfare Crisis

After losing track of potentially thousands of children it forcibly separated from their parents, the Trump…

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How a Network of Moms Is Posting Bail for Immigrants in Detention and Reuniting Families

In June, a New York woman named Julie Schwietert Collazo heard a news story about Yeni Gonzalez-Garcia, a woman from…

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Kirstjen Nielsen Will Have to Get Back to You About How Many People Have Died on Her Watch

On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen appeared before the House Judiciary…

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The Best Political Writing We Read This Year

There is no shortage of things to read about our current political moment, but way too much of it is stenography for…

Katie McDonough

12/19/18 3:00PM

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