Hundreds of protesters descended on LaGuardia Airport to support migrant children arriving in New York City after President Donald Trump signed an executive order rescinding his family separation policy. Video showed immigrant supporters, led by groups including the progressive Jewish organization Bend the Arc, standing outside of a terminal while singing the Civil Rights-era song…
I have an aunt named Malkah who I may never know, because she was kidnapped from a Jerusalem hospital in 1961. I didn’t even know that Malkah existed until two years ago when my grandmother, Aisha Biton, passed away, and a chapter of her life, hidden for most of mine, came into the open. Aisha…
White House adviser Stephen Miller, a staunch advocate for stricter immigration policies, is the great-grandson of an immigrant — who failed his naturalization test the first time around. In 1932, Nison (Max) Miller applied for naturalization as an American citizen, according to an application found by Renee Stern Steinig, a former president of the Jewish…
Ivanka Trump finally broke her silence on President Trump’s unpopular policy of separating immigrant children from parents when she thanked him for signing a controversial executive order allowing immigrant families to be imprisoned together. Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting…
“OMG CRYING!” “I literally sobbed during “Queer Eye”!” “Stop, you’re going to make me cry!” The Schmooze isn’t really interested in the commodification of tears (almost always female) as proof of profundity. But the clip that’s making the rounds of Rachel Maddow trying and failing to work through her tears as she reports on “tender…
Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus had some scathing remarks for First Lady Melania Trump on Twitter, referencing President Trump’s family separation policy. After a visit with the king and queen of Spain, Melania tweeted a photo of her, Trump, and the monarchs, captioning it, “A great visit with the King & Queen of Spain at the @WhiteHouse…
Is Stephen Miller’s proclivity to stir up controversy and “trigger libs” behind the Trump administration’s policy to separate families? An Atlantic profile last month dug into his propensity for inciting controversy and the role that may play in family separation policy. In a previous interview with the Atlantic’s McKay Coppins, Miller said that he had…
President Trump urged House Republicans to fix the nation’s immigration system, saying that his daughter Ivanka asked him if there was a way to stop the current family separation crisis at the border, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Trump described for Republicans in a meeting at the Capitol how the First Daughter and senior White…
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