Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Added by PressForward
Alamy WHAT HAPPENED? Homeland Security on AP’s National Guard: ‘Absolutely Incorrect’ An explosive report that Secretary Kelly wanted to use troops to “round up” undocumented immigrants gets serious pushback. The Department of Homeland Security is roundly condemning an Associated Press story that broke Friday morning about considering the use of the National Guard to “round…
ICE agents rounded up hundreds of undocumented immigrants in an ‘enforcement surge’—and they appear to be casting a wider net than before. Last week, for America’s undocumented immigrants, President Trump’s crackdown began. Over the course of several days, the Department of Homeland Security conducted an “enforcement surge” in the biggest cities throughout the country—New York,…
During a floor speech Tuesday night in the Senate in opposition to the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general in Trump’s administration, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell cut off Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) while she was quoting a letter written by Coretta Scott King. The letter was written when Sessions was being considered…