The number of detained migrant children in the U.S. is at the highest level ever recorded: 12,800 children. https://t.co/XxyytD9Uqf
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) September 14, 2018
Category: Immigration
More than 400 children are still separated from their parents
More than 400 migrant children remain separated from their parents. Here’s what we know, by @Josh_Barrage. https://t.co/Fxo2Gh1RuF
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) September 7, 2018
Latest Trump lie about the wall
NEW: Over the past couple weeks, Trump has begun telling supporters he's already spent $3.2 billion on the wall–twice the amount Congress has authorized. He said it twice last night at a rally in Montana. https://t.co/CH1wBO0Gxx
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) September 7, 2018
Trump administration rejected a report that showed that refugees are not a threat
Truth isn’t truth.
NBC: Assistant AG rejected an intelligence assessment that said refugees didn’t pose a significant threat to the U.S. by simply saying Sessions disagreed; the administration then issued its own misleading report that hyped the supposed threat. https://t.co/orbsWSlAEQ pic.twitter.com/u6pEpP67Uc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 5, 2018
Trump hurts business by limiting legal immigration
Denaturalization
Another Trump tactic to attack immigrants
How the Trump administration is bringing back denaturalization https://t.co/xsJfnJwqev pic.twitter.com/3K1DROkHFj
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 16, 2018
Denaturalization — a complex process once primarily reserved for Nazi war criminals and human rights violators — is on the rise under the Trump administration https://t.co/LLEuQXF8fg
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 12, 2018
A recent uptick in denaturalization cases has deeply unsettled many immigrants who had long believed that a U.S. passport warded off a lifetime of anxiety over possible deportation https://t.co/EPvdBy66wY
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 23, 2018
US citizens are being denied passports
Trump isn’t just going after illegal immigrants. He’s going after some people who became citizens and even people who were born here. Nothing will stop this as long as Republicans control both houses of Congress.
Here is an issue that is crying out for congressional inquiry. Americans, overwhelmingly Latinos and including veterans, are having their citizenship questioned, and being denied passports. Outrageous and unacceptable.
GOP response: Hear no evil, see no evil, do no oversight. https://t.co/nAJcHWZuKW
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) August 30, 2018
If history is a guide, stripping passports/citizenship is another step in the authoritarian playbook. Americans are tired of this bigotry. https://t.co/arSlANxZZr
— Richard Blumenthal (@SenBlumenthal) August 31, 2018
Birtherism is now federal policy. Anyone who is not white is suspected of not being a real American. https://t.co/cAByZAL4ps
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 29, 2018
Hear me out: kids in cages and Latino Americans being denied passports are not a separate story from Trump’s move to fire Mueller.
He is trying to rally and consolidate his hard base to force Republicans’ silence when he shuts it all down.
Democracy hanging in the balance.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 30, 2018
I don't shock easily these days, but this is shocking (but also predictable). And if you think it can't happen to you because you're not Latino, you're a fool: if these people prevail, everyone will be at risk https://t.co/Ts8LEjEmai
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 30, 2018
Jews (unfortunately) have quite a bit of experience being denaturalized. . . which is why we should be sounding the alarm as the Trump administration starts stripping passports both from naturalized citizens and even some born in the US.https://t.co/FTX1GYFBAB
— Jill Jacobs (@rabbijilljacobs) August 30, 2018
The US government is denying passports to Hispanic Americans along the border.
In some cases, passport applicants with birth certificates are being jailed in immigration detention centers and entered into deportation proceedings.https://t.co/TIJlNwyRZh
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) September 3, 2018
WATCH: Trump admin. is denying passports to American citizens at the border, asking for obscure documents to prove they were born in the U.S. #mtpdaily@chucktodd: “Is this the burden of proof?”
Immigration attorney Jaime Diez: "Yes. They're asking for things that no one has." pic.twitter.com/Ve7jYrbXpZ— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) August 30, 2018
State Department response:
Dishonest reporting by @washingtonpost. The truth is: domestic passport denials for so-called “midwife cases” have actually decreased during the Trump administration. Stop perpetuating inaccurate claims & biased reporting. https://t.co/sSzD8fO9jx
— Heather Nauert (@statedeptspox) August 31, 2018
In sum: @StateDept refuses to cooperate before story is published and then @statedeptspox issues misleading statement with manipulated data in vain effort to rebut it. Not how the process is supposed to work. pic.twitter.com/CDJbWCK3wI
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 3, 2018
528 children are still separated from their parents
NEW: 528 migrant children remain separated from their parents one month after the court's deadline. Only a handful have been reunited in the last few weeks. 343 deported parents have not yet been reunited with their children. pic.twitter.com/ySgbLbYkKn
— Alice Ollstein (@AliceOllstein) August 24, 2018
Their own bigotry blinded them to the ability of *others* to view these families as human beings. https://t.co/hhSEidrFAQ
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 25, 2018
Here's what happened: The U.S. government NEVER had a plan to reunite them. https://t.co/F9sC00tiv7
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) August 25, 2018
Trump politicizes the death of Mollie Tibbetts
First, my condolences to her family.
It is terrible of Trump to politicize this terrible crime. Of course, Republicans don’t want to talk about gun safety after mass shootings but it’s alright to talk about immigration after this tragedy.
President Trump blames Democratic immigration policies for death of Mollie Tibbetts https://t.co/LlYNHI23kq pic.twitter.com/nnTiXjZYVx
— CNN (@CNN) August 25, 2018
"She would not want this to be used as fuel against undocumented immigrants": Some of Mollie Tibbetts' family don't want her death politicized https://t.co/LuVddqqhkn pic.twitter.com/lZGjFO7rrN
— CNN (@CNN) August 24, 2018
Mollie Tibbetts was murdered because she told a man to leave her alone while she was jogging. But because he was an illegal immigrant you all wanna advocate for border control instead of against the root of the problem: violence towards women for saying no
— Jordyn Tieman (@jordyntieman) August 22, 2018
https://t.co/Q5GyJAmXPF Mollie Tibbetts murder isn’t about immigration, it’s about toxic masculinity. Facts are facts: Immigrants don’t commit more violent crime. But men sure do.
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) August 24, 2018
Russian bot-and-troll networks continue to exploit race-related issues to distract from bad news for Trump, posting thousands of tweets about the death of Mollie Tibbets to draw attention away from Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort. https://t.co/YkILF3Wn42
— The Moscow Project (@moscow_project) August 24, 2018
The killer of Mollie Tibbetts killed one person, so Congress must immediately act on border wall.
Stephen Paddock killed 58 and wounded 851 in Las Vegas, but Congress must not act on guns.
— Denizcan Grimes (@MrFilmkritik) August 25, 2018
Blinded by xenophobic rage, the GOP and conservatives are calling for the creation of the very surveillance state they once feared. My piece in @nytimes https://t.co/VtShXyGyrY
— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) August 24, 2018
Members of TPUSA's University of Iowa chapter have resigned after Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk sought to "exploit" Mollie Tibbits' murder to push an anti-immigrant "political agenda" https://t.co/NTlyNUP8dz
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) August 24, 2018
Gingrich: Death of Mollie Tibbetts can help GOP win elections https://t.co/e54aGTO1j0 pic.twitter.com/4xBCNbjUYt
— The Hill (@thehill) August 24, 2018
Fox News’ fixation on Mollie Tibbetts’ murder is astonishingly hypocritical: https://t.co/TdkMMLR9G7 pic.twitter.com/6GM0iWDlrm
— Slate (@Slate) August 25, 2018
in article abt how Republicans are hitting Dems for Tibbetts murder, NYT quotes 7 Republicans, 0 Dems https://t.co/gSVngDAoKx
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 24, 2018
Fox News’ coverage of Mollie Tibbetts’ death spiked after it was linked to an undocumented immigrant https://t.co/5rxJ8Jku47 pic.twitter.com/D0bOACjEmt
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 24, 2018
NEW by Sandi Tibbetts Murphy on those politicizing Mollie Tibbetts' death:
"[If] did not know her, you do not get to usurp Mollie & her legacy for your racist, false narrative. We hereby reclaim our Mollie."
"We must be willing to address the way we raise our boys & young men." pic.twitter.com/WV8Jqot0bM
— Kedron Bardwell (@KedronBardwell) August 25, 2018
When Trump refers to a young woman apparently murdered by an undocumented immigrant as “permanently separated from her family,” he is using her and her loved ones as pawns in his war on immigration — and mocking the parents and children he has heartlessly separated at the border.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 23, 2018
Iowa student's murder thrust into U.S. debate over immigration https://t.co/QXH9lKrCr9 pic.twitter.com/ym55zyTADX
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 23, 2018
The death of Kate Steinle set off an anti-immigrant wave during the 2016 campaign, and now the death of Mollie Tibbetts may do the same. https://t.co/le9jJaPiTD
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 22, 2018
"As far as I'm concerned, they're Iowans with better food." Mollie Tibbetts' father counters immigration outcry with praise for the kindness of Hispanics in Iowa during the hunt for his slain daughter. https://t.co/QU45B45smP
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) August 27, 2018
A day after Donald Trump Jr. wrote a column blaming Democrats for Mollie Tibbetts's death, her father writes a rebuttal, "to call out the racists among us and ask people to aspire to higher American ideals." https://t.co/ujcLfyf4Ui
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 3, 2018
This is a beautifully told story about where our country was, not long ago, and where it is now. A crime, a closed window for mourning, and a town changed by a bitter national debate. Great from @kemettler https://t.co/9JDEL5ubDU
— Scott Wilson (@PostScottWilson) September 2, 2018
Hundreds of children are still separated from their parents
Here’s a sad example:
This story from @TexasTribune about how a father and son were separated by the Trump administration is heartbreaking. Byron is 7 years old and is still in a shelter here – long after his father was deported.
Hundreds of children are still separated.https://t.co/leh4z3q3z2 pic.twitter.com/TD2OSxSSk9
— Dom (@DomDiFurio) August 20, 2018
Sad! 