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Buzzfeed Exposes Breitbart’s Neo-Nazi Roots (TYT Video)

Brett Erlich, Nando Vila and Hannah Cranston | (The Young Turks Video) | - - Steve Bannon insists that there's "no room" for neo-nazi's and white supremacists in the alt-right movement, Buzzfeed…

Trump tries to Camouflage Muslim Ban with a Few Venezuelans and N. Koreans

TeleSur | - - The addition of North Korea and Venezuela broadens the restrictions from the original, mostly Muslim-majority list. U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that Venezuela and North Korea will…

Deporting Dreamers will cost US $400 bn. over 10 Years

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's consiglieri, Jeff Sessions, came out yesterday to smear the some 800,000 young people in the DACA program, undocumented people brought to the…

“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)

Paul Jamiol | Jamiol's World Cartoons | - - Via Jamiol's World Editorial Cartoons

Will Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?

By Marcelo Rochabrun | (ProPublica) | - - With the president reportedly at the point of canceling DACA, some of its 800,000 beneficiaries describe what they gained — and now fear losing…

Top 5 Great Power Realist Reasons Trump is Wrong on Immigration

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Many of the reactions to Stephen Miller's announcement of Trump's proposed immigration policies have pulled at the heart strings. People on social media…

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…