Trump blew a deadline to reunite families — then blamed the families
Trump missed the deadline to reunite young children and parents ripped from each other at the border. Naturally, it’s not his fault.
By Tommy Christopher - July 10, 2018Trump missed the deadline to reunite young children and parents ripped from each other at the border. Naturally, it’s not his fault.
By Tommy Christopher - July 10, 2018Far-right conservative strategist Rick Tyler criticized Trump’s ‘disgusting’ family separation policy, and promptly lost his job with Mississippi Senate candidate Chris McDaniel.
By Tommy Christopher - July 09, 2018The Trump administration tried to delay the court order that was needed to get them to reunite the families they tore apart. A federal judge threw out the complaint and said, ‘the government must reunite them.’
By Oliver Willis - July 07, 2018Footage shows children being herded into a vacant building with no kitchen and only a few toilets, outfitted with dark windows, new security cameras, and extra locks on the doors.
By Caroline Orr - July 07, 2018Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services says it can’t reunite families in a timely manner because of all the pesky lawmakers trying to exercise oversight.
By Tommy Christopher - July 05, 2018He tried to deny some of the cruel mistreatment even took place.
By Eric Boehlert - July 03, 2018Ainsley Earhardt’s poorly considered wisecrack is a reminder that Trump’s immigration policy isn’t about crime — it’s about cruelty to innocent children.
By Tommy Christopher - July 02, 2018The Trump administration obviously has no plan to reunite children with their parents after ripping them apart.
By Tommy Christopher - July 02, 201812-year-old Leah Cayasso stood right across from the White House and called out Trump for his abusive treatment of immigrant families, especially children.
By Oliver Willis - June 30, 2018700 events are scheduled for Saturday nationwide.
By Eric Boehlert - June 29, 2018ICE agents say Trump’s drive to abuse immigrant families is diverting attention from investigations into serious crimes like human trafficking, child pornography, and terrorism.
By Oliver Willis - June 29, 2018Removing children from their families, as Trump has done, is harmful to children — and that’s according to Trump’s own State Department.
By Oliver Willis - June 29, 2018Women flooded the building where U.S. Senators have their offices to protest the Trump administration’s family separation policy. They were joined by several Democratic members of Congress.
By Oliver Willis - June 28, 2018Lewandowski lied, saying the mom of a 10-year-old with Down syndrome was a ‘potential member of a child smuggling ring.’ In fact, she was helping the government prosecute a smuggler.
By Emily Crockett - June 27, 2018Judge Dana Sabraw demanded all detained children be reunited within 30 days, and children younger than five years old within two weeks.
By Eric Boehlert - June 27, 2018An Atlanta lawyer found a creative way to protest Trump’s inhumane treatment of immigrant children and families — by tying it to his namesake brand of hotels.
By Caroline Orr - June 26, 2018Trump is demanding an unthinkable ransom from traumatized parents who have no idea where their abducted children are.
By Eric Boehlert - June 25, 2018Trump’s sham executive order on family separations was just a ploy to kill bad headlines — and now he regrets even that meaningless gesture.
By Tommy Christopher - June 25, 2018As part of its ongoing crusade to defend Trump and attack his detractors, NRA-TV is now complaining that facilities used to hold children taken from their families are ‘too nice.’
By Oliver Willis - June 23, 2018Trump says his cruel border crackdown is needed to stop drug cartels and gangs — but federal prosecutors say his approach is diverting resources they need to combat drug smuggling.
By Caroline Orr - June 23, 2018Trump ally and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski attacked a child with Down syndrome while defending Trump’s harsh border policy. A few days later, he was rewarded with a trip on Air Force One alongside Trump.
By Oliver Willis - June 23, 2018In a scathing rebuke, the U.N. Human Rights Council warned that the Trump administration may be inflicting ‘irreparable harm’ on children.
By Caroline Orr - June 23, 2018The Trump administration is shutting out state efforts to help detained children.
By Eric Boehlert - June 22, 2018Republicans literally cannot stand to hear the painful cries of children Trump has ripped from their parents.
By Oliver Willis - June 22, 2018Fox News thinks some child abuse is justified.
By Oliver Willis - June 22, 2018Melania Trump wore a jacket proclaiming she ‘didn’t care’ as she visited children ripped from their parents by her husband. And she’s rightfully getting called out by her own party.
By Oliver Willis - June 22, 2018He is tearing children from their families and locking them up in cages — and now has the audacity to claim it’s fake.
By Kaili Joy Gray - June 22, 2018The head of Homeland Security reportedly said the Trump administration could continue tearing families apart, despite Trump’s claim that he was ending the inhumane practice.
By Caroline Orr - June 21, 2018Corey Lewandowski lost a speakers bureau contract worth thousands of dollars after mocking a child with Down syndrome in a vile attempt to defend Trump’s abuse of children at the border.
By Oliver Willis - June 21, 2018Law enforcement officials are speaking out against Trump’s inhumane treatment of kids.
By Eric Boehlert - June 21, 2018