ADDED 08/31/2018
FROM 08/31/2018 | The Guardian
BY Kate Connolly
Packing away her metal trays of breads and biscuits in Chemnitz’s Peukert bakery, famous for its century-old recipes, the shop assistant says she is glad it is closing time. Outside, police and protesters are gathering ahead of the latest far-right rally. “We’ve been here before,” she says, pulling down the window blinds and shrugging, saying […]
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ADDED 08/30/2018
FROM 08/30/2018 | Esquire
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
The Trump administration is now denying passports to American citizens. This sounds terrifying familiar. We begin Thursday on the general theme of What In The Unholy Fck Is Going On And What In The Unholy Fck Is Wrong With These People? From The Washington Post: His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, […]
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FROM 07/01/2018 | The New Yorker
BY Sarah Stillman
Sarah Stillman reports on people who fled their home countries fearing for their lives, and the tragic consequences when they were sent back.
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ADDED 06/20/2018
FROM 06/20/2018 | The Atlantic
BY Adam Serwer
To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse. At least 2,000 children have now been forcibly separated from their parents by the United States government. Their stories are wrenching. Antar Davidson, a former youth-care worker at an Arizona […]
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ADDED 06/02/2018
FROM | The Intercept
BY Mehdi Hasan
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is targeting children — migrant and refugee children — to achieve its policy goal at the border, crack down on immigration, and placate its far-right base. Whereas the Obama administration kept undocumented children with their parents at emergency shelters and family facilities and “initiated a program designed to allow families more freedom while […]
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ADDED 05/28/2018
FROM 05/29/2018 | Democracy Now!
BY Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez
In Guatemala, family members are demanding justice for Claudia Gómez González, the 19-year-old indigenous woman whom a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot in the head and killed last week in Texas near the U.S. border. Border Patrol initially claimed that the shooting occurred after an agent “came under attack by multiple subjects using blunt objects.” […]
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ADDED 04/24/2018
FROM 04/24/2018 | InfoMigrants
BY ANSA
There were tensions on the French-Italian border at the weekend, after anti-fascist groups responded on Sunday to a “wall” along the border that had been created by the far-right group, “Generation Identitaire,” on Saturday. Tense moments were experienced with the French gendarme at one point but violent incidents were avoided. Activists from the small far-right […]
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