Immigration

Americans Need to Face the Horror That Undocumented Children Have Experienced

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jul 19, 2014 Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Children of the Border

Richard Reeves / Truthdig Jul 19, 2014 Last Monday, a chartered flight took 38 mothers and children, who had been held in a detention center in Artesia, N.M., to San Pedro Sula in Honduras. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Border Crisis Tests Religious Faith — and Some Fail Badly

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jul 19, 2014 Flamboyant piety has long been fashionable on the political right, where activists, commentators and elected officials never hesitate to hector us about their great moral and theological rectitude. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Jon Stewart on GOP Response to Refugee Crisis: ‘What the Fuck Is Wrong With You? These Are Children’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 17, 2014 Obviously, the thing to do with the hundreds of children fleeing crippling poverty and violence is "shout at them in a language they don't understand," the "Daily Show" host explains. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Border Children: ‘They Don’t Speak English, but They Understand Hate’

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jul 17, 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas put a prominent, public face on the immigration crisis this week when he was detained by the U.S. Border Patrol in McAllen, Texas. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Activist Jose Antonio Vargas Released After Border Detention During a Vigil for Child Refugees

Staff / Truthdig Jul 16, 2014 The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and "Documented" director was handcuffed and held by the U.S. Border Patrol at McAllen Airport in Texas on Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Borderline Behavior: GOP Demands Action, Blocks Solutions — and Always Complains

Joe Conason / Truthdig Jul 15, 2014 Listening to Republicans in Washington (and Texas and Arizona) scream about the "crisis" of migrant children arriving from Central America on our southern border, it is puzzling to realize they don't actually want to do anything to solve the problem. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Bordering on Heartless

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jul 15, 2014 Glenn Beck says he has come under fierce attack from some of his fellow conservatives for a grave transgression. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: The Lawyers Suing to Protect Refugee Children

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jul 14, 2014 After fleeing a country with the worst murder rate in the world, and traveling more than a thousand miles while surviving corrupt officials, cartels and garden variety rape, an unaccompanied Honduran child would probably find herself in a courtroom trying to explain, via a translator, why she can't go back. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Sending the Refugee Children Home Will Bring Lasting Shame

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Jul 12, 2014 President Barack Obama is repeating the mistakes of the past, allowing bigoted know-nothings to determine this nation's policy toward refugees. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

An Overriding Need for Reform Now

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jul 12, 2014 There's no objective need for President Obama to visit the Texas-Mexico border and see the immigration crisis firsthand, but he shouldn't have claimed that "I'm not interested in photo ops." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Dennis Kucinich: Both Political Parties Have Failed America

Staff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Dennis Kucinich holds politicians accountable. Also: the fight to get refugee children legal representation, why legal weed is good for America, and Detroit anthologized. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )