President Donald Trump said he has no regrets about telling a group of predominantly U.S.-born congresswomen to “go back” to the countries they came from, telling reporters on Monday that he believes they “hate America” and, “I don’t know who’s going to miss them.” “If you hate our country, if you’re not happy here, you […]
By Elaine S. Povich WASHINGTON, D.C. — Claire Sarnowski of Lake Oswego, Oregon, met Holocaust survivor Alter Wiener at a school event five years ago when she was 9 years old. Because her aunt had arranged the talk by the Holocaust survivor, and served as his escort to the school and back, Sarnowski got to ride […]
President Donald Trump is once again ignoring the truth with his racist attacks on four progressive congresswomen. He’s also ignoring the parallels with his own family’s immigrant history. The president launched a Twitter tirade on Sunday that urged the four lawmakers to “go back” to countries “they originally came from.” As many have pointed out, three of his […]
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) rebuked President Donald Trump’s bold-faced racism on Sunday after he said on Twitter that progressive Democratic congresswomen should “go back” to the countries they “originally came from,” which he described as “totally broken and crime infested.” In response, Ocasio-Cortez reminded him that America is her country. “Mr. President, the country I ‘come from,’ & the […]
Click:beaded necklace Vice President Mike Pence — who has called his Christian faith a “dominant” influence in his life — skipped expressing Christ-like compassion Friday at a jam-packed Texas immigrant detention facility where men in cages shouted that they were hungry and hadn’t been allowed to bathe for weeks. Pence looked stiff, uncomfortable and almost […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he’s getting reports that a nationwide crackdown on immigrants facing deportation is already underway in his city. The sweeps were expected to start Sunday, but de Blasio tweeted on Saturday that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had already taken action in New […]
Amid an ongoing clash between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the House Democratic Caucus chided the freshman congresswoman’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, on Friday. The caucus’ criticism of Chakrabarti centered on comments he made about Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) last month. In an exchange with a Twitter user, Chakrabarti charged […]
Click:路軌燈 Almost 400 migrant men were so severely packed into detention cages at a Texas border facility Friday that they could not lie down on the concrete floor at the same time to sleep, according to a report from a pool of reporters traveling with Vice President Mike Pence. There were no cots, mats or […]
It’s been four years since Sandra Bland died inside a Texas jail cell at the age of 28, and the federal government still hasn’t formally counted her death. The Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics is supposed to track the deaths in jails and prisons throughout the United States. But their reports are falling further […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is speaking out against Tennessee’s decision to honor Nathan Bedford Forrest ― a Confederate general, slave trader and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ― calling it downright “wrong.” Earlier this week, Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a proclamation deeming Saturday “Nathan Bedford Forrest Day” and praising him […]