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New Trump Executive Order Codifying Family Internment Camps
Donald Trump signed an executive order this morning after weeks of a public relations nightmare following the family separation policy that his Administration put into place recently. Far from a fix, the new executive order actually codifies family internment camps. How did we get here? In May 2018, Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy, whereby everyone entering the United States unlawfully, including persons with bona-fide asylum claims who were... -
#WhereAreTheChildren? The Kids Are Alright
We’ve seen a week of mass hysteria, propagated by many well-intentioned people, about how the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) lost around 1,500 migrant kids due to new policy whereby children are separated from their families at the border. Lets get one thing out of the way: This is not true. The so-called “missing children” — unaccompanied minors released from ORR custody — have nothing to do with the...