David Boddiger
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Officials Claim ICE Raids Have Started, but the Worst May Be Yet to Come
By broadcasting for weeks that massive raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in 10 cities across the nation were imminent, the Trump administration already has fulfilled one of its objectives: to spread fear and terror in immigrant communities. → Read More
Trump Administration Identifies 1,712 More Children That May Have Been Separated at Border
As part of a court-ordered review of potentially thousands of additional family separations at the border, the Trump administration has identified over 1,700 cases that may involve migrant children being separated from their parents at the border. → Read More
Judge Hands Trump Another Setback, This Time on Coal Leases on Federal Land
Donald Trump and his administration have lost in court about 40 times since they began reversing former President Barack Obama’s environmental policies, according to The New York Times. → Read More
Guatemalan Woman Runs LA Marathon in Traditional Mayan Clothing
María del Carmen Tun Cho, a 46-year-old q’eqchi Mayan woman and mother of six, ran the Los Angeles Marathon on Sunday in the traditional clothing—including sandals—of her hometown in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. → Read More
Expanded Gun Background Checks Become Law in New Mexico
Extensive advocacy work by proponents of stronger gun regulations in New Mexico has led to a new law that will require federal background checks for most gun purchases, including online sales and at gun shows. → Read More
Trump’s Shutdown, the Longest in History, Mostly Hurts States That Voted for Him
Ample evidence already exists that Donald Trump doesn’t care at all for those who voted for him in 2016, or for his cultish base that continues to support him no matter the cost. → Read More
The Number of Undocumented Children in U.S. Custody Surpasses 14,000
The Trump administration has reached another shameful milestone in its immigration policy, with the number of unaccompanied immigrant minors in U.S. custody reaching a record number of 14,056. → Read More
Trump Administration Wants to Obliterate Transgender Civil Rights Protections
We’re all familiar with German pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous poem about speaking out. For U.S. voters, that time is now. → Read More
Trump Defends Family Separation As a Tactic to Discourage Undocumented Immigration
Recent reports that the Trump administration is considering reactivating policies to separate migrant families at the border appear to have merit after President Donald Trump on Saturday defended family separation as a means to deter undocumented immigration. → Read More
Trump Nearly Tweeted Us Into a War with North Korea, Bob Woodward Says
At any moment, Donald Trump could be just one tweet away from starting a disastrous war. Yes, that apparently almost happened. → Read More
Brett Kavanaugh Appears to Have Lied Repeatedly Under Oath and the GOP Doesn’t Care
One would think that honesty and integrity would be the most basic requirements for a nominee to the country’s highest court. By those standards, however, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh wouldn’t even be in the running. Yet, here we are. → Read More
EPA Emails Show ‘Open-Door Policy’ for Industries It Regulates
The Environmental Protection Agency under administrator Scott Pruitt is a lobbyist’s dream come true, as the agency has been operating in favor of the very industries it’s supposed to be regulating, EPA emails show. → Read More
The Number of Immigrant Children Separated from Parents at the Border Is ‘Horrific’
Homeland Security and immigration officials have been separating hundreds and hundreds of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S. border, and authorities appear to have been consistently misleading the public about it. → Read More
Hundreds of Thousands Join March for Our Lives to Show that 'We Are the Change' [UPDATING]
Update, 5 p.m.: Current estimates say that more than 800,000 people participated in the March for Our Lives in the nation’s capital, plus more than 200,000 in New York City, and hundreds of thousands in other cities across the country. A couple thousand of them were in West Palm Beach, FL, where President Donald Trump spent the day hiding out at his golf course. → Read More
Pressure Mounts for Anti–Abortion Crusader Scott Lloyd to Resign from HHS
Several lawmakers have joined women’s health, immigration, and human rights advocates in calling for the resignation or firing of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) Director Scott Lloyd. → Read More
Every Politician Bought By the NRA Needs to Hear This Florida Student’s Speech
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior Emma Gonzalez, who took shelter in an auditorium while 19–year–old Nikolas Cruz gunned down her classmates, friends, and colleagues, has a message for President Donald Trump and the nation’s lawmakers: Stop accepting money from the National Rifle Association and do something to stop gun violence or we will kick you out of office. → Read More
ICE to Deport a Father Whose 5–Year–Old Son Is Fighting Leukemia
Jesus Berrones, 30, was first brought to the U.S. without immigration documents in 1989, when he was 1. Since then, he’s worked to establish a life here, he married a U.S. citizen, and together they are raising a family of five children in Arizona. → Read More
Lobbyist Spending Hits 7–Year High Under Swamp–Drainer Trump
It probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that Donald Trump does not appear to be “draining the swamp” as he had promised during the presidential campaign. → Read More
Eric Trump Says Government Shutdown Is a ‘Good Thing For Us’
Eric Trump, drifting somewhere out there in the parallel reality that is Planet Father, believes that Democrats are responsible for the funding impasse that shut down the federal government, and that this is a good thing. → Read More
The Temporary Protected Status of Haitian and Central American Immigrants Could Be in Jeopardy
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Central Americans who fled violence and natural disasters and were welcomed into the U.S. through the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program are now worried that the Trump administration will soon send them packing. → Read More