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If Trump can Hunt the Undocumented by Cell Phone, what can he do to You?

By Adam Schwartz | (Electronic Frontier Foundation) | - - In the latest sign of mission creep in domestic deployment of battlefield-strength surveillance technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this…

How President Bannon’s Whiteboard Sank Trump

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's approval ratings are in the toilet compared to any other modern president at this stage of his presidency. At least some of…

Trump Sanctuary Threat Quashed by Court – Is anything he does Constitutional?

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - US district judge William Orrick responded to a lawsuit by the county of San Francisco and by Santa Clara county against a Trump…

The Criminalization of Immigrants From Clinton to Trump

By Aviva Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Ever since he rode a Trump Tower escalator into the presidential race in June 2015 and swore to build his “great wall”…

How Middle Eastern Immigrants Boost US Competitiveness

Sami Mahroum | ( Project Syndicate) | - - DUBAI – In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim linguist, “Dr. Mahmoud,” to…

After the Chemical Attack, It’s Time to Get Rid of the ‘Muslim Ban’

By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | - - Now that he cares about the fate of Syrian children, I hope Trump will open up our country — not bomb theirs. When I…

What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

By Ingrid Anderson | (The Conversation) | - - This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside of St. Louis, Missouri and at the…

Iranian Woman Visiting US arrested, taken to distant Jail Despite Valid Visa

TeleSur | - - Alia Ghandi was denied U.S. entry to visit her family in Portland. Although courts rejected the so-called "Muslim ban," an Iranian tourist was detained at an airport and…

Africa Trade Summit in US Had Zero Africans After Visas Denied

TeleSur | - - "This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation,” organizer Mary Flowers told the media. An African trade summit organized by the University of Southern California ended up with…

Hawaii Judge: Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 still Violates the Constitution

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Derrick Watson, US District Court judge in Honolulu, has issued a nationwide Temporary Restraining Order against Trump's second attempt at an Executive Order…

To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | - - Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing foreign policy doctrine - the ‘mafia principle’…

Making us Less Safe: Trump bloating Pentagon Budget, cutting Diplomacy, Science

By Miriam Pemberton | OtherWords | - - Throwing money at the Pentagon while gutting other programs that protect Americans shouldn't make anyone feel safer. Millions of Americans are feeling uneasy, disgruntled,…

Middle East Studies Assn., joins Md. Suit to block Trump Muslim Ban

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2017 Groups Challenge Revised Muslim Ban BALTIMORE —- Civil rights and refugee groups today asked a federal court in Maryland to block the Trump administration’s…

What Syrian Refugees think of Trump’s Refugee Ban

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Reuters Arabic reports that a wave of anger swept the Syrian refugee camps of southern Lebanon Monday and Tuesday when they learned that…

Why Trump EO is Still a Racist Muslim Ban

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Whether or not the new Trump Executive Order banning visas for citizens of 6 Muslim-majority countries for a 90 day period and likewise…

The Trauma of “Dreamers” under Trump’s Deportation Threats

By Annamarya Scaccia | (Yes! Magazine) | - - After Daniela Vargas’ recent arrest, the future for DACA’s more than 750,000 recipients is more uncertain than ever. They need political support, but…

Still not Nice: Trump’s Nazi-inspired Demonization of Immigrants

By Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | Commondreams.org | - - New government agency blasted as 'a blatant attempt to humiliate and scare immigrants' Groans and boos greeted President Donald Trump's announcement of…

Trump Official detained, nearly Deported French Holocaust Scholar

TeleSur | - - “My situation was nothing compared to some of the people I saw who couldn’t be defended as I was,” Rousso said on Twitter. Henry Rousso, a French historian…

Trump endangering rest of Us to hunt down the Law-Abiding Undocumented

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Gen. John Kelly's ramping up of deportation measures against undocumented residents of the US, in accordance with Donald Trump's campaign promises, contains many…

Never Fjorget What Happened In Sweden (Colbert)

Stephen Colbert | (Video Clip from The Late Show) | - - "In response to Trump's false claims of a terror attack, Sweden's Prime Minister asked, 'What has he been smoking?' Stephen…