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Church nativity scene puts the holy family in cages, because that’s how America deals with asylum-seekers like Christ

Jesus and his fam were refugees, so it's only fitting that the folks at Claremont United Methodist Church decided to put its nativity figures in cages behind razorwire.

As Rev Karen Clark Ristine said, Jesus, Mary and Joseph were "the most well-known refugee family in the world. What if this family sought refuge ...

A Canadian podcast reveals everything wrong with the Trump administration’s migrant baby adoption policy

The US government detained more than 69,000 migrant children last year in the course of its brutal family separation policy. There's no guarantee these kids will ever be reunited with their parents; in fact, some of them have already been put up for "adoption" (read: legalized kidnapping) after their parents were deported. Many ...

Despite denials, it’s clear that Google’s new top national security hire was instrumental to Trump’s #KidsInCages policy

After news broke last week that Google's latest head of national security policy engagement was Miles Taylor, former chief of staff to DHS undersecretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Google tried to calm its outraged staff by insisting that Taylor had nothing to do with Trump's Kids in Cages policy that shattered families forever and murdered innocent ...

Senior DHS staffer who oversaw #KidsInCages and the #MuslimBan is now a top Google employee

Miles Taylor as chief of staff to DHS undersecretary Kirstjen Nielsen, publicly defending his boss's implementation of the #MuslimBan ethnic cleansing policy and helping to implement the family separation #KidsInCages policy.

Now he is a Google "government affairs and public policy manager" who styles himself the company's "head of national security policy engagement."

Documents seen by BuzzFeed ...

A list of companies that contract with ICE

Last week, free software developer Seth Vargo pulled the plug on tools he made to work with software developed by his former employer Chef, in protest of Chef's ongoing contracts with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency that has been implicated in crimes against humanity, including ethnic cleansing, family separation, and the deaths ...

Kids’ mag ‘Highlights for Children’ condemns Trump policy of separating migrant children from families

The long-running kids' publication 'Highlights for Children' condemned the Trump administration's policy of separating children from families at the US-Mexico border in a statement published on social media.

At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world's most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of ...

Trump may detain migrant children at Georgia’s Fort Benning military base in a new concentration camp

The administration of President Donald Trump is today reported to be considering a plan to detain separated migrant children at Fort Benning, a military base in the state of Georgia.

NBC News was first to report the new concentration camp plans, and cited a Department of Defense source.

“Two sources familiar with a recent meeting ...

Pledge: I will not participate in any event organized by or including institutions that employ Kirstjen Nielsen

Kirstjen Nielsen was Trump's DHS Secretary, where she oversaw the performatively cruel practice of separating thousands of children from their parents, in a calculatedly shambolic and chaotic way, ensuring that many of them will never be reunited with their families.

Nielsen covered up this practice by repeatedly lying about it, delaying public action.

Now, Nielsen has resigned ...

John Oliver nails it with his passionate feature on America’s family separation policy

A ton of criticism, anger and pain has come from the family separation policy being enforced on the southern border of the United States. Few pieces of commentary on the subject nail the fine points of the topic with such humor and sadness as John Oliver's passionate rant against the inhuman practice on Last Week ...