Ted Cruz and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) led a delegation of senators to Donna, Texas, to tour a migrant holding facility where migrants have been packed into facilities designed for far fewer people.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) traveled to the Rio Grande on Thursday night and said he saw “cartel members” on the Mexican side of the border “waving flashlights, yelling and … taunting border patrol” agents.
President Joe Biden’s deputies are trying not to detain the rapidly rising inflow of economic migrants who are coming across Americans’ Southern border in search of blue-collar jobs, homes, and the Democrats’ dangled prize of American citizenship.
BLM is seeking support in Congress for radical legislation that would close federal prisons and immigration detention centers.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appealed to the false left-wing talking point during an April 15 appearance on the The View in response to cohost Whoopi Goldberg, who asked the lawmaker, “Do you think it’s time to have a conversation with Joe?”
The nation’s immigration enforcement agency is reducing its arrests of illegal migrants amid growing fears of a coronavirus outbreak in federal detention centers.
When it comes to smearing the Trump administration — be it the Russia Collusion Hoax or this stupid impeachment process — evidence, facts, and common sense no longer matter. If it makes Trump look bad, the media simply play stenographer — be it for the Deep State, a bunch of witnesses who witnessed nothing, or this dishonest lame-brain working for the corrupt United Nations.
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Wednesday that he believes “we should get rid of these detention facilities” for illegal immigrants.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is considering a bill passed last week by the state legislature that would outlaw private prisons and may also shutter Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers in the state.
GREENVILLE, South Carolina — Former vice president Joe Biden told an town hall at Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina on Thursday afternoon that he would close down migrant shelters and detention facilities at the border.
ROCK HILL, South Carolina — Former vice president Joe Biden joked Thursday afternoon that the new British prime minister, Boris Johnson, “looks like Donald Trump.”
Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) on Friday criticized the Trump administration’s plan to hold migrant families at detention centers for more than the 20-day limit as a deterrent that would help alleviate overcrowding. Mucarsel-Powell, an immigrant from Ecuador, told CNN’s “New
The University of California, Los Angeles, held vigils on campus in July to draw attention to the immigration detention centers along the Texas-Mexico border.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — George Takei says U.S. migrant detention policies reached depths beyond what Japanese-Americans faced during their World War II internment.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused Republicans of pursuing a “torture project” along the U.S.-Mexico border in a Capitol Hill hallway exchange with reporter Nicholas Ballasy on Thursday.
The U.S. citizen who has been detained in a migrant detention facility for over three weeks has struggled to secure a speedy release due, in part, to confusion spurred by his non-citizen mother who took out a U.S. tourist visa in his name, claiming that he was born in Mexico.
Soap star Nancy Lee Grahn reiterated her disdain for the Trump family in a tweet posted Sunday, smearing White House Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump as a Nazi after she posted a picture of her family’s new dog, Winter.
Kevin McAleenan, Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Thursday morning, answering questions about “the Trump Administration’s child separation policy, the treatment of immigrants detained in U.S. government facilities, and related issues.”
Shaun King, a columnist at the Intercept and alumnus of the New York Daily News, praised the antifa activist who was killed while attacking a migrant detention facility in Tacoma, WA, in a series of social media posts he has since deleted.
Numerous anti-ICE activists, socialists, anarchists, and anti-fascists praised the man who an ICE official said tried to commit “mass murder” by attempting to blow up a propane tank at a migrant detention center in Tacoma, Washington. Quick action by Tacoma police officers prevented the attacker from successfully completing his mission.
Actor Tom Arnold compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany on Saturday in an attempt to slam the Trump administration’s use of migrant shelters on the southern border, claiming that this is “exactly how it started [in] Germany.”
Police in Tacoma, Washington, say they shot and killed a man armed with a rifle and throwing flammable objects at a migrant detention center. The attack followed a rally outside the facility by several hours. The motivation of the attacker has not been released at this time.
Recently, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled, “The Treatment of Migrants Likely ‘Meets the Definition of a Mass Atrocity.”
Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi shared a picture of an American flag pie on the Fourth of July, but it came with a loaded political message for President Trump, with “Close the camps” written with dough.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) questioned why the Trump administration chose to hold a patriotic “Salute to America” celebration in the nation’s capital Thursday when migrant kids on the border, she suggested, do not have access to toothpaste or soap. She also described the successful event as “poorly attended.”
The United Nations-brokered administration in Libya accused warlord Khalifa Haftar’s forces, fighting on behalf of the breakaway government in the eastern part of the country, of launching an airstrike on Wednesday that struck a migrant detention center in Tripoli, reportedly killing at least 44 people and wounding over 130.
Representative Frederica Wilson (D-FL) on Wednesday discussed her recent visit to a migrant detention center, calling on CNN’s “New Day” for the center to be “shut down.” According to Wilson, the center she visited is led by “white men,” who
A Hispanic pastor said his tour of the same facility visited by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Costa (AOC) left him with a “drastically different” perception of the facility. The paster said her comments about the Border Patrol detention facility in El Paso County, Texas, left him “full of indignation.”
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) now claims she was “not safe” from officers during her tour of migrant shelters in the El Paso area Monday afternoon.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) visited migrant shelters in the El Paso area Monday and adamantly claimed that women were instructed to “drink out of toilets.” However, a recently surfaced photo shows what appears to be a basic detention center toilet unit with an attached sink and fountain, and an agent who was present at the time of the congresswoman’s visit added context to AOC’s remarks, casting doubts on her harrowing claims.
