California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, along with 18 other state attorneys general, announced a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s new rule to hold migrant families in detention indefinitely. “This new Trump rule callously puts at risk the safety and well-being of children. It undermines a decades-old agreement reached in court […]
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House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grilled acting head of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan about the conditions of detention facilities for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Screenshots reportedly from a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents, with thousands of members, show posts that joked about the deaths of migrants and discussed throwing burritos at Latino members of Congress visiting detention facilities in Texas on Monday. The three-year-old group, which has roughly 9,500 members, shared derogatory and sexist comments about […]
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Reports of migrant children being held in overcrowded Customs and Border Patrol facilities in filthy conditions caused a national outcry after video of a Department of Justice lawyer trying to defend the conditions went viral. “If you don’t have a toothbrush, if you don’t have soap, if you don’t have a blanket, it’s not safe […]