FOCUS: If We Want to Help Migrants, It's Time to Move From Outrage to Action

03 July 19

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FOCUS: If We Want to Help Migrants, It's Time to Move From Outrage to Action 
 

ALSO SEE: 20 Ways You Can Help Immigrants Now

Francine Prose, Guardian UK
Prose writes: "We have to do something besides talking, writing, lamenting, consoling one another, hoping that the problem will be solved if Donald Trump is defeated in 2020. By then it will be too late for many kids and their families."
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Donald Ayer | Why Bill Barr Is So Dangerous

02 July 19

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Donald Ayer | Why Bill Barr Is So Dangerous 

Donald Ayer, The Atlantic
Ayer writes: "The first few months of his current tenure, and in particular his handling of the Mueller report, suggest [...] that he is using the office he holds to advance his extraordinary lifetime project of assigning unchecked power to the president."
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts took part in a Congressional fact-finding mission at migrant detention centers in Texas. (photo: Luke Montavon/Getty Images)

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Ocasio-Cortez Details 'Horrifying' Conditions at Migrant Detention Facility
Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK
McCarthy writes: "Following a visit to a migrant detention center in Texas on Monday, the New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called conditions 'horrifying' and denounced sexualized threats against her - allegedly made by Customs and Border Protection officers - in the lead-up to the visit."
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Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in April to protest against the Trump administration's efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. (photo: Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)

Trump Administration's Delay in Census Printing Sets Up Count's 'Biggest Risk'
Hansi Lo Wang, NPR
Wang writes: "Justice Department attorneys told a federal judge in Maryland on Monday that the administration has not reached a final decision on whether it will try to make another case in court for adding a hotly contested citizenship question to census forms."
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A caravan of migrants moving north after crossing the border from Honduras into Guatemala. (photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

20 Ways You Can Help Immigrants Now
Julia Travers, YES! Magazine
Travers writes: "Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets - and the Trump administration says that's fine."
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The problem is dire: The U.S., with its enormous civilian-owned arsenal of guns, leads the developed world in gun violence. (photo: Javier Zarracina/Vox/Getty Images)

Democrats Have Been Discussing the Same Ideas on Guns for 25 Years. It's Time to Change That.
German Lopez, Vox
Excerpt: "There should be a Medicare-for-all or Green New Deal for ending gun violence."
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Sen. Bernie Sanders. (photo: Joshua Lott/Reuters)

Why Bernie Was Right to Oppose US Intervention in Central America
Hilary Goodfriend, Jacobin
Goodfriend writes: "Recently, an indignant Bernie Sanders called the New York Times to respond to a May 17 hit piece."
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A severe water shortage is stalking Chennai, whose metropolitan area is home to 9 million people. (photo: Uday Deolekar)

As a Major Indian City Runs Out of Water, 9 Million People Pray for Rain
Niha Masih and Joanna Slater, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A severe water shortage is stalking Chennai, whose metropolitan area is home to 9 million people. The city's reservoirs and lakes are parched and its wells have run dry after two years of scanty rains here."
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