(JTA) — Former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency Michael Hayden compared the Trump administration’s immigration policies to Nazi Germany. In a tweet posted on Saturday, Hayden wrote: “Other governments have separated mothers and children,” under a black and white photo of the front of Auschwitz as seen from the railroad…
A humanitarian nightmare is happening right now in our backyards — and the Jewish community needs to step up to help. The Trump Administration announced in May that it would implement a “zero-tolerance” policy at the border, meaning that it will criminally prosecute anyone attempting to enter illegally. Since children can’t be jailed, this means…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders both cited the Bible on Thursday to justify the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their families at the southern border. “Persons who violate the law of our nation are subject to prosecution,” Sessions said at a speech to law enforcement…
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has continued his affinity for espousing alt-right ideology, this time retweeting a prominent British white supremacist, HuffPost reported Tuesday. Mark Collett, a self-described “Nazi sympathizer,” originally tweeted out a Breitbart article about opposition to immigration in Italy. King chimed in, writing, “Europe is waking up…Will America…in time?” Europe is waking up…Will…
Since Memorial Day weekend we have been reading the stories in newspapers across the country about children being intentionally separated from their families at the U.S. border. Hundreds of children are being detained by U.S. authorities in conditions Senator Jeff Merkley has likened to “dog kennels.” According to NBC News, over 300 of these children…
Bags carrying candy and an anti-immigration message were found in residential neighborhoods in the Seattle suburbs last week, the Seattle Times reported. The bags, which included a message to “Keep America American,” were distributed around Bellevue and Clyde Hill and promote the website of Patriot Front, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a…
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a ruling that would change the course of American asylum policy: the closing of America’s doors to those escaping domestic violence and gang violence. Asylum seekers from Central America and elsewhere else, fleeing desperate conditions and frequently in terror for their lives, are now officially unwelcome. Coupled with…
The Trump administration’s treatment of asylum seekers and immigrant communities is filling many Americans with horror and dread. During the dark days of this administration, we are seeing immigrants who have built homes, businesses and lives in America have their legal status arbitrarily revoked by refusals to extend TPS. We are hearing the screams of…
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