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Schiff: White House using migrant kids’ grief and tears to build border wall
Adam Bennett Schiff Sunday Shows preview: Lawmakers, Trump allies discuss Russia probe, migrant family separation Giuliani: Mueller probe 'might get cleaned up' with presidential pardons Top Dems: IG report shows Comey's actions helped Trump win election MORE said on Sunday that the Trump administration is using the "grief, the tears, the pain" of immigrant kids as "mortar" to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. "What the administration is doing, they're using the grief, the tears, the pain of these kids as mortar to build their wall," Schiff said on "Meet the Press."
Where Are The Girls Being Detained By The Trump Administration?
It took the publicity brought by Sen. Jeff Merkley, among others, to finally make Americans aware of the horrendous policy of housing children ripped away from their parents who have come through border points to seek asylum. ICE made detention centers available for the media to tour to show that the children are not being housed in cages, have beds to sleep on and activities to do.
VA therapist yanked from clinic in Conway
Larry Hay's Army tour in Vietnam was a half century ago, long before he married Margaret, his wife of 34 years. "When he goes to bed at night, he goes back to hell.
Ap Fact Check: Trump on Fbi, phantom law on migrant kids
President Donald Trump is claiming exoneration in the Russia matter from a Justice Department report that actually offers him none. He's also branding fired FBI chief James Comey a criminal, though the report in question makes no such accusation.
Congressman: Youth shelter reflects flawed immigration plan
A Republican congressman from Texas who toured a tent-like shelter for hundreds of minors who entered the country illegally said Saturday the facility is a byproduct of a flawed immigration strategy. U.S. Rep. Will Hurd said the shelter near the Tornillo port of entry in far West Texas will house about 360 boys who are 16 and 17. The teens began arriving Friday, the same day Hurd toured the shelter, he said, noting that they're being moved from other shelters to make way for younger immigrant children taken into custody at the border.
Gov. Ducey on Rep. Stringer controversy: ‘He disqualified himself’ from office
The Arizona governor backed calls from the state GOP for Rep. David Stringer to resign based on racially charged comments that surfaced this week. Gov. Ducey on Rep. Stringer controversy: 'He disqualified himself' from office The Arizona governor backed calls from the state GOP for Rep. David Stringer to resign based on racially charged comments that surfaced this week.
Ap Fact Check: Trump assails Dems for his own migrant policy
The Capitol is seen in Washington, Friday, June 15, 2018. President Donald Trump ignited eleventh-hour confusion Friday over Republican efforts to push immigration through the House next week, saying he won't sign a "moderate" package, an apparent damaging blow to GOP lawmakers hoping to push legislation through the House next week.
White House: Trump supports GOP leaders’ immigration bill
In this June 7, 2018, photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes questions from reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Democrats are responsible for tent cities for illegal alien kids
Illegal alien children are flooding across the border. Some are coming alone; some are accompanied by adults who may or may not be their parents.
Family separations cause a rift between GOP leaders, WH
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018.
GOP lawmakers decry family separations as WH defends policy
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders gestures while speaking to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Thursday, June 14, 2018.
Ryan doesn’t want families separated; Pelosi calls act ‘barbaric’
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi says a Trump administration policy that separates children from their parents at the southern border is "barbaric" and has to stop. Pelosi said Thursday that separating families as parents are being detained after crossing the southern border illegally "is not what America is, but this is the policy of the Trump administration."
Ryan not comfortable with separating parents, kids at border Source: AP
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he's not comfortable with a Trump administration policy that separates children and parents at the southern border, as House Republicans, under increasing pressure to address the humanitarian crisis, raced to finish a new immigration bill. "We don't want kids to be separated from their parents," Ryan said, adding that the policy is being dictated by a court ruling that prevents children who enter the country illegally from being held in custody for long periods.
Marin IJ Readersa Forum for June 10, 2018
I'm sometimes asked if I think marijuana is a gateway drug. I can only answer with certainty that I've never seen a junkie with a joint.
Media Treat Trump Administration’s Partisan Fear-Mongering as…
"Progressive economists have long maintained that to the degree that Social Security needs to be 'rescued,' it could be easily managed through modest tax hikes," Johnson writes. On Tuesday, dozens of media outlets broke what at first seemed to be a major story about "the government" announcing that Social Security and Medicare will be broke in less than 20 years: If the lifelines of millions of poor, elderly and disabled were going to crumble in less than a generation, this would be major news indeed.
Justice Sotomayor writing book on kids with ‘challenges’
In this Sept. 21, 2017, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks the Newseum in Washington.
Arizona teachers push proposal to tax rich for education PHOENIX (AP) …
On a sweltering Arizona evening under a park pavilion, math teacher Heather LaBelle handed out petitions for a ballot initiative that would increase taxes on wealthy residents to get funding for schools. Later that night, her school board voted to give her and her fellow teachers an average raise of 15.5 percent.
Sobering report teases out factors leading to suicides
All eyes are on Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller's re-election bid,... A pair of Democratic U.S. House seats that will be up for grabs in Nevada in November could be key to the party's effort to cut into GOP majorities in Congress. A pair of Democratic U.S. House seats that will be up for grabs in Nevada in November could be key to the party's effort to cut into GOP majorities in Congress.
Senator blocked from entering detention center housing migrants’ kids
A United States senator tried to enter a federal facility in Texas where immigrant children are being held, but police were summoned and he was told to leave. Sen. Jeff Merkley's attempt late Sunday to enter the facility, and his request to speak to a manager, comes amid a national debate over the practice of separating families caught crossing the border illegally.