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SCOTUS To Rule On Muslim Ban, Workers Supreme Court poised to rule on Trump travel ban, other cases. Reuters: "The U.S. Supreme Court, winding down its nine-month term, will issue rulings this week in its few remaining cases including a major one on the legality of...
Supreme Court's Janus Ruling Will Hurt Children
If the Supreme Court rules against workers in Janus vs. AFSCME, it will hurt children at a time when it's become shamefully commonplace for our government to abuse those of a tender age. Pushing the Janus case to a compliant Supreme Court is the conservative...
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20,000 Children To Be Housed On Military Bases Pentagon will make room for up to 20,000 migrant children on military bases. WaPo: "The Defense Department will house up to 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children on military bases in coming months, a Pentagon official...
Imagining a Safe Haven for Our Children
Arrive on the scene. Shoot. Bang. Dead child. Gone forever. Mother crying. Blood pressure, spiked. Doom, imminent. Siblings, distraught. Funeral. This predictable chain of events is what seems to happen when police officers arrive on the scene. Calling the police...
A Shining 'City On a Hill' Must Treat Immigrants Humanely
By signing an executive order ending forced separation of immigrant families, President Donald Trump has admitted that this cruel practice was his administration’s policy and that he could have stopped it at any time. Despite having the power to stop taking children...
How I Met Detained Minors on My Flight to McAllen
I first saw them sitting as a group in Terminal B at Dallas International Airport. Clean-cut young teens in matching sweatsuits - must be a volleyball team from a private middle school, I thought. They looked weary, but so was I - we'd just found out that our American...
New Report Reveals Which States Are Abandoning Public Schools
Having a democratically governed local school, accessible to all students and fully accountable to the public for how its spends taxpayer money, has been a given for most American families since segregated schools were outlawed, but a new report finds most states have...
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Trump Ends Family Separations, Still Criminalizes Migrants What's really in Trump’s plan to stop family separations. WaPo: "A new executive order signed by President Trump lays out steps to end the separation of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. We see...
How We Can Transform Our Communities Now
“What qualifies you to run for office?” That’s a question I get a lot as I meet voters in my campaign for Montgomery County Council’s at-large seat. To me, it hits at the heart of why I’m running. I’m a working class, Black Latina living in a multi-racial,...
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Trump Says Immigrants 'Infest" U.S. Trump ramps up rhetoric: Dems want 'illegal immigrants' to 'infest our country'. CNN: "President Donald Trump amplified his heated immigration rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing Democrats of wanting migrants to 'infest our country' and...
