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Detaining Immigrant Kids Is Now a Billion-Dollar Industry
By MARTHA MENDOZA AND LARRY FENN / AP ~ TIME ~ July 13, 2018 (SAN ANTONIO) — Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services ... -
Facebook Is Still the Perfect Propaganda Platform. These Sketchy Mexican Pages Show Why.
By Noah Lanard and AJ Vicens ~ Mother Jones ~ April 9, 2018 (Credit: Mother Jones illustration; Jeff Roberson/AP) A network of “news” sites appears to be working together to influence Mexico’s election. After a covert Russian operation to fuel political divisions in the United States reached 146 million Facebook users in 2016, ... -
Asesora al INE, agente ligada a la CIA
Por Primitivo Rodríguez Oceguera ~ La Jornada ~ 6 de Abril 2018 Agradezco a La Jornada que haya publicado el 3 de abril una nota de capital importancia para la elección presidencial de este año: que el Instituto Nacional Demócrata de Estados Unidos asesora al Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE). Dicho instituto es uno de ... -
Exclusive: SDPD officer blows whistle on 'rewards for arrests' program
By Jennifer Kastner ~ ABC 10 News ~ March 14, 2018 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - In an exclusive interview with 10News, a San Diego police officer is blowing the whistle on a newly unveiled program that reports to reward officers for making more narcotics arrests. “It’s completely everything that we ... -
Inside a safe house, hiding from ICE
By Kyung Lah and Alberto Moya ~ CNN ~ March 14, 2018 (CNN)-The apartment's beige walls are bare except for a cross in the dining room and one near the bedroom. No pictures of the inhabitants are anywhere. The simple furniture is sparse and relatively new. The mother and her ... -
Trump Appears to Endorse Path to Citizenship for Millions of Immigrants
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG ~ NY Times ~ JAN. 9, 2018 WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday appeared open to negotiating a sweeping immigration deal that would eventually grant millions of undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship, declaring that he was willing to “take the heat” politically for an approach that ... -
Federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocks Trump's decision to end DACA program
By Joel Rubin, Jazmine Ulloa and Lisa Mascaro ~ LA Times ~ January 9, 2018 A federal judge Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to end the program that shields from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. The ruling marks a potentially ... -
In Clash Between California and Trump, It’s One America Versus Another
A cannabis dispensary in Oakland, Calif., on Monday. Legal recreational marijuana sales in the state began this year, just before the Justice Department announced it would renew tough enforcement of federal marijuana laws. CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times By Jennifer Medina & TIM ARANGO ~ NY Times ~ JAN. 7, 2018 ~ LOS ANGELES ... -
Trump’s disgraceful use of ‘dreamers’ as a bargaining chip
Protesters who call for an immigration bill addressing the so-called dreamers, young adults who were brought to the United States as children, rally on Capitol Hill in December. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) By Washington Post Editorial Board ~January 8, 2018 AFTER ALL of President Trump’s bluster about his “great love” for “dreamers,” brought to this ... -
Asylum seekers overwhelm San Diego border
By Kate Morrissey, L.A. Times ~ December 30, 2017 So many people fleeing persecution in their home countries have asked for help in San Ysidro in recent weeks that federal officials have not been able to process all of them, leaving some stranded and running out of money while they wait in ...