Corey Lewandowski Mocks Story About 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Separated From Her Mother At The Border

Corey Lewandowski Mocks Story About 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Separated From Her Mother at the Border image Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski mocked an anecdote about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome being separated from her mother at the U.S.-Mexico border due to the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on immigration. During an appearance on Fox News Tuesday night, Lewandowski responded “womp, womp” when fellow panelist Zac Petkanas shared the account he had read, CNN reports. Petkanas, a former senior Democratic National Committee adviser,...

Acting Immigration Chief Thomas Homan Blames Immigrant Parents For Border Separations

Acting Immigration Chief Thomas Homan Blames Immigrant Parents for Border Separations image Asked whether he thought President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy was inhumane, acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan responded that “it’s the law,” and parents who bring their children across the border illegally are to blame for families being separated. In an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room” with Wolf Blitzer, Homan evaded a question about the policy’s ethics and said that, “I...

Republicans In Congress Search For An Immigration Bill To End Border Crisis

Republicans in Congress Search for an Immigration Bill to End Border Crisis image House Republicans’ unofficial clubhouse in the basement of the Capitol smelled like Chick-fil-A and fear. As debate raged about the President Donald Trump’s family separation policy Tuesday night, House Speaker Paul Ryan welcomed his colleagues to the wood-paneled room to hear from the President directly. The outgoing Speaker outlined a proposal, which his team sketched out with the White House, that meets each of Trump’s demands for an immigration bill, and would bring to an...

George Takei Slams Family Separation Policy: ‘At Least During The Internment, We Remained A Family’

George Takei Slams Family Separation Policy: ‘At Least During the Internment, We Remained a Family’ image Star Trek actor George Takei, who was detained in a Japanese American internment camp when he was 5 years old, said Tuesday that the Trump Administration’s family separation policy is worse “in one core, horrifying way.” “At least during the internment of Japanese-Americans, I and other children were not stripped from our parents. We were not pulled screaming from our mothers’ arms. We were not left to change the diapers of younger children by ourselves,”...

‘This Is Evil.’ Inside Lawmakers’ Visit With Immigrants At A Detention Center

‘This Is Evil.’ Inside Lawmakers’ Visit With Immigrants at a Detention Center image On one level, the divisions between the groups who convened at a New Jersey detention center this past Father’s Day could not have been more stark; seven of them were lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives — positions of both power and privilege — while the other five were immigrants who, facing imminent deportation proceedings, find themselves at the very hands of the government their fellow attendees are serving in. The lawmakers — all Democrats who represent...

General Electric To End Its More Than 100-Year Run On The Dow Jones

General Electric to End Its More Than 100-Year Run on the Dow Jones image (LOS ANGELES) — General Electric will be dropped from the Dow Jones industrial average next week, ending the industrial conglomerate’s more than 100-year run in the 30-company blue chip index. S&P Dow Jones Indices said Tuesday that GE will be removed from index before the open of trading next Tuesday. Its slot will go to drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance . Boston-based GE was an original member of the Dow Jones industrials dating back to 1896. It had been a continuous...

Nonprofit To Be Paid $458 Million By Trump Administration To Detain Migrant Children

Nonprofit to Be Paid $458 Million by Trump Administration to Detain Migrant Children image The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data. The nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is to be paid more than $458 million in fiscal 2018, according to the data — the most among the organizations, government agencies and companies that run a detention and care system for immigrant children on behalf of the Department of Health...

Trump Administration Withdraws U.S. From U.N. Human Rights Council

Trump Administration Withdraws U.S. from U.N. Human Rights Council image The United States announced Tuesday it was leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with Ambassador Nikki Haley calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name.” It was the latest withdrawal by the Trump administration from an international institution. Haley, Trump’s envoy to the U.N., said the U.S. had given the human rights body “opportunity after opportunity” to make changes. She lambasted the council for “its chronic bias against...

Trump’S Deputy Chief Of Staff To Leave White House

Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff to Leave White House image (WASHINGTON) — The White House aide who led the planning for President Donald Trump’s meeting last week with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has decided to leave the Trump administration to return to the private sector. Joe Hagin, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations, has served in every Republican White House since the Reagan administration. He held the same title in George W. Bush’s White House. Hagin’s departure comes as the Trump administration continues...

Hundreds Of Methodists Seek To Discipline Jeff Sessions Over Family Separations

Hundreds of Methodists Seek to Discipline Jeff Sessions Over Family Separations image Hundreds of members of the United Methodist Church have filed claims of child abuse and racism against Attorney General Jeff Sessions under the church’s “Book of Discipline” after he enacted a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy that has led to the separation of thousands of parents and children at the U.S. border. Some 640 clergy members and laypersons in the church have written an open letter to the leaders of the two congregations where Sessions, a longtime...

President Trump Is Making It Harder For Congress To Stop Family Separations

President Trump Is Making It Harder for Congress to Stop Family Separations image Congress scrambled Tuesday to find a way to end a Trump Administration policy that splits young children from their parents along the U.S.-Mexican border and dodge a new demand from the president for a $25 billion border wall . With many Republican lawmakers up for election this fall, nerves were frayed ahead of a planned Tuesday evening visit by the President, with some regretting the invitation altogether in the midst of an already dicey situation. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...

Donald Trump’S Endorsements Say More About Him Than The Candidates

Donald Trump’s Endorsements Say More About Him Than the Candidates image President Donald Trump endorsed South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster for being “with me from the beginning.” While backing Rep. Lou Barletta for re-election, Trump noted that he was “one of my very earliest supporters” and “a friend of mine.” Before the Texas primary, Trump tweeted that Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush “backed me when it wasn’t the politically correct thing to do, and I back him now.” While many politicians have rewarded...

Read President Trump’S Statement On Juneteenth, Celebrating The Official End Of Slavery In Texas

Read President Trump’s Statement on Juneteenth, Celebrating the Official End of Slavery in Texas image President Donald Trump issued a statement celebrating Juneteenth – the day slavery ended in Texas. Trump’s statement commemorates the 153rd anniversary of Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arriving in Galveston. When he landed on June 19, 1865, Granger declared the end of the Civil War and issued a long-awaited order freeing the remaining enslaved people in Texas. Although President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation signed two years earlier, those to whom it...

The Trump Administration Is About To Leave The United Nations Human Rights Council

The Trump Administration Is About to Leave the United Nations Human Rights Council image WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is set to announce Tuesday its departure from the United Nations’ main human rights body in its latest withdrawal from an international institution. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will deliver the verdict on the U.N. Human Rights Council in a joint appearance at the State Department, according to four officials familiar with the matter. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they...

President Trump Argues There’S No Alternative To Family Separation Policy

President Trump Argues There’s No Alternative to Family Separation Policy image President Donald Trump claimed that the only options for immigration enforcement are releasing all undocumented immigrants into the country on their own recognizance or prosecuting them criminally and separating parents and children . Speaking before the National Federation of Independent Business Tuesday afternoon, Trump defended a policy that has led to 2,000 children being separated from their parents by claiming that there were no alternatives. “We can either release all illegal...

Advocates Worry About Girls Held Due To Family Separation Policy

The Trump Administration has released photos of young boys being held at detention centers for undocumented immigrants, but so far it has not released any images of young girls. That discrepancy has led to Administration critics to start a Twitter hashtag #wherearethegirls . Pressed on the question at a White House briefing Monday , Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that children are being cared for in the same way but that she would have to “look into” why no photos have...

President Trump Is Demanding $25 Billion For A Border Wall Amid Outcry Over Family Separation

President Trump Is Demanding $25 Billion for a Border Wall Amid Outcry Over Family Separation image Republican lawmakers searching for a compromise to stop the practice of separating parents and children at the U.S.-Mexican border were just thrown for a loop when President Donald Trump demanded $25 billion for a border wall. That amount, which matches the current estimate for complete funding for the wall, is even greater than the $18 billion Trump previously requested during a failed effort to get wall funding in exchange for protection of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children,...

Why Trump’S Trade War With China Is So Risky

Why Trump’s Trade War With China Is So Risky image President Donald Trump’s looming trade war with China ratcheted up so quickly you might have missed it. Over the weekend, Trump engaged in a back-and-forth with the country that ultimately led him to threaten tariffs on $450 billion of Chinese imports. “We have to,” Trump told reporters Friday. “We’ve been treated very unfairly.” For Trump, who has declared trade wars “easy to win,” the escalating tariffs represent the fulfillment of a campaign...

People Are Angry President Trump Used This Word To Describe Undocumented Immigrants

People Are Angry President Trump Used This Word to Describe Undocumented Immigrants image Twitter users reacted strongly to President Donald Trump’s use of the word “infest” to describe illegal immigration. Responding to criticism of a policy that has led to more than 2,000 children being separated from their parents at the border, Trump tweeted that Democrats were to blame. “They don’t care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our country, like MS-13,” he wrote, referencing a violent...

Democratic Attorneys General Ask Trump Administration To End Family Separations

Democratic Attorneys General Ask Trump Administration to End Family Separations image Democratic Attorneys General in 21 states are calling on the Trump Administration to end the “zero tolerance” policy that has resulted in the separation of families at the U.S. border. In an open letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen the state officials said the policy is “inhumane” and “contrary to American values.” “Put simply, the deliberate separation of children and their parents who seek lawful...