On Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, ahead of the crucial midterm elections, John Oliver focused on Trump’s brutal family separation policy—how it happened (“incompetently and cruelly”), and why (racism!). The rage-inducing segment is important viewing to understand the details of the policy and how America got there.

The Trump administration’s so-called “zero tolerance” immigration policy has led to a sharp increase in immigrant arrests at the border and a truly staggering level of human suffering. But the threat posed to immigrants by this administration is not limited to the border: in New York City, despite its status as a…

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For hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have applied for citizenship under the Trump administration, the wait time has gotten longer. As the Associated Press reported, the citizenship process, which used to take about six months, now takes as long as two years, raising concerns from immigrant rights advocates that…

As the Trump administration gears up to send 800 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, Donald Trump is reportedly considering imposing a ban on asylum-seekers. The proposed executive action would be similar to the anti-Muslim travel-ban, which was blocked by federal courts until the Supreme Court upheld a watered down,…

Hours after Donald Trump called the caravan of people traveling together from Central America to the United States a “National Emergency,” and days after calling the asylum-seekers an “assault on our country,” CNN is reporting that the administration is planning to send up 800 troops to the Mexican border.

Today was...a lot, yeah?

Call me Barf Hag. For I am but a hag… and this? Is my bag.

There is seemingly no end to the trauma migrant families are enduring as a result of the Trump administration’s family separation policy: The New Yorker reports that a five-year-old Honduran girl named Helen was separated from her family, detained, and then, before a bond hearing (established by an agreement known as…

Of all the cruelties inflicted by the Trump administration, the breathtaking inhumanity with which our nation’s top officials treat migrant children continues to shock. We are now holding children and teenagers in tent camps in the remote Texas desert; almost 13,000 migrant youth are currently in federal custody, the…

The Trump administration has proposed a new regulation that would make it much harder for low-income immigrants to come to the United States or receive a green card if they use, or are considered likely to use, public programs like Medicaid, food assistance, or housing assistance.

While Republicans use every tactic they can to insist that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a good man with impeccable character—and to discredit Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez—let’s consider, for a second, which men Donald Trump believes should be taken at their word, and which are considered…

Deciding that they can no longer stand by as their brother, Congressperson Paul Gosar (R-Arizona)... exists... six of his nine siblings are starring in campaign ads for his Democratic opponent David Brill.

Some immigrants known as the Windrush generation, who have been living in the UK for decades, are now being denied citizenship because they lack the proper documentation proving they lived in the UK before 1973.

It’s often the architects of our nation’s monstrous immigration policies (cough Stephen Miller cough) who are the subject of dramatic news headlines and the target of our much-deserved vitriol. But, as a new Politico profile of Lee Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, reminds us,…

Jeff Sessions, a racist bloodhound, is considering indefinite detention of people who cross the U.S. border seeking asylum.

Less than a day after news broke that a Border Patrol agent has been apprehended and charged with murdering four women in Laredo, Texas, news has broken that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was apprehended and charged with ten felony counts of sodomy and one of incest in Medford, Oregon. Officials have…

You guys I’m sorry I barfed in the bag. :[

It has been a WILD day in Washington, lemme tell ya...