Juan Cole | Yes, Liz Cheney, AOC Is Right That US Is Running Concentration Camps for Refugees

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20 June 19 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News SUPPORTERS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING RIGHT NOW: It’s great to have readers. We love people visiting RSN. It allows us to educate and make a difference in the world. But the most important thing needed right now are supporters. Who can help out? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Juan Cole | Yes, Liz Cheney, AOC Is Right That US Is Running Concentration Camps for Refugees  Juan Cole, Informed Comment Cole writes: "This crisis is Trump-made. Nothing in the law requires family separation, but he designated persons fleeing to the US seeking asylum as criminals, so they have to be arrested and adults and children can't be held in the same prisons." READ MORE Demonstration to call for Justice for Jamal Khashoggi. (photo: AP) Jamal Khashoggi Was My Fiance. His Killers Are Roaming Free. Hatice Cengiz, The New York Times Cengiz writes: "In May, I was invited to travel to Washington to attend some hearings at Congress. I had imagined the city in the words of my fiance, Jamal Khashoggi. My visit left me with the troubling feeling that his memory was fading in the city he evoked so lovingly." READ MORE Migrants inside a makeshift detention center in Texas. (photo: Sergio Flores/Getty Images) Trump Admin Says It's Not Required to Provide Migrant Children Soap, Toothbrushes and Sleeping Accommodations Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Egelko writes: "The Trump administration's defense of conditions at its shelters for immigrant minors - it argues it is not legally required to provide all of them with such items as soap, toothbrushes and sleeping accommodations - drew an incredulous response from federal appeals court judges Tuesday at a hearing in San Francisco." READ MORE Georgia officials say 30,000 people may lose their medicaid coverage. (photo: Getty) 30,000 Poor Elderly, People With Disabilities to Lose Medicaid Coverage in Georgia Elham Khatami, ThinkProgress Khatami writes: "Georgia state officials said Tuesday that 30,000 residents will lose their Medicaid coverage for failing to respond to renewal notices. But lawyers of many of the recipients affected say their clients were dropped from coverage without ever having received those notices." READ MORE Bryn Esplin and Fatma Marouf sued the Department of Housing and Human Services and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), to allow children to be placed with LGBT foster parents. (photo: Courtesy Lambda Legal) Lesbian Couple Barred From Fostering Migrant Kids Scott Bixby, The Daily Beast Bixby writes: "A taxpayer-funded child-welfare group told a lesbian couple who sought to provide a home for migrant kids that they didn't qualify - because they don't 'mirror the Holy Family.'" READ MORE Two Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial vehicles are seen on the tarmac at a Northrop Grumman test facility in Palmdale, California, May 22, 2013, in this handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy. (photo: Reuters) Iran Shoots Down US Naval Drone in Persian Gulf Region, Escalating Tensions Erin Cunningham and Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post Excerpt: "Iran shot down a U.S. naval surveillance drone with the wingspan of an airliner near the Strait of Hormuz early Thursday, escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf region and prompting the White House to call an emergency meeting with top congressional leaders." READ MORE Produce wrapped in plastic. (photo: Jessica Pettway/Guardian UK) Plastic Wrapped in Plastic: The Wasteful Reality of America's Grocery Stores Jessica Glenza, Guardian UK Glenza writes: "All the stores wrapped plastic around eggs and even hard-boiled and peeled eggs were sold in plastic cases. Trader Joe's snuggled two fennel bulbs in a plastic clamshell. Excluding 7-Eleven, every store tucked baby greens into rigid plastic shells." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Update My Monthly Donation