Debbie Nathan, writing at The Intercept, takes a look at the planned changes for immigrant asylum hearings in her latest piece of outstanding reporting. Read it at the link below.
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An Abused Woman Came to the U.S. Seeking Asylum. The Government Took Her 5-Year-Old Son. This Is How She Got Him Back.
Debbie Nathan, writing for The Intercept, won a well-deserved Edward R. Murrow Award for her story on Guatemalan mother who was reunited with her five-year-old son. It’s a great read.
Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex.
In a joint project by The New York Times and the El Paso Times, reporters Simon Romero, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Manny Fernandez, Daniel Borunda, Aaron Montes and Caitlin Dickerson offer an interactive look inside the controversial migrant detention center in Clint, Texas.
Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses
Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig, reporting for The New York Times, have a genuine bombshell tonight, after examining about 10 years of Trump's taxes. It's genuinely astonishing.
F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia
Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Nicholas Fandos, writing at The New York Times, break this historic bombshell. It’s simply amazing reporting, and the implications are genuinely astonishing.
How Our Cruelty Killed Hootie and the Blowfish — and Damaged Our Souls
Dave Holmes, writing for Esquire, offers this “full-throated defense” of Hootie and the Blowfish,” and explains how the cruelty we allowed to bring the band down more than 20 years ago has led to the world we live in now. Several are calling it the best thing that has been written so far in 2019.
Mounting legal threats surround Trump as nearly every organization he has led is under investigation
David A. Fahrenthold, Matt Zapotosky and Seung Min Kim, writing for The Washington Post, unravel the many investigations mounting against Donald J. Trump.
Maria Butina’s Defiant Plea and Yet Another Russian Ploy
The onetime graduate student admits to being a foreign agent who sought to establish back channels to Republicans through the NRA.
‘Death is waiting for him’
On the day he pleaded for his life in federal immigration court, Santos Chirino lifted his shirt and showed his scars.
PHOTO ABOVE: Santos Chirino’s daughter stands for a portrait in Virginia on Nov. 17. Chirino was murdered after being denied asylum and deported. Chirino’s daughter and son are awaiting their own immigration hearing.
Judge Thomas Snow watched the middle-aged construction worker on a big-screen television in Arlington, Va., 170 miles away from the immigration jail where Chirino was being held.
In a shaky voice, Chirino described the MS-13 gang attack that had nearly killed him, his decision to testify against the assailants in a Northern Virginia courtroom and the threats that came next. His brother’s windshield, smashed. Strangers snapping their photos at a restaurant. A gang member who said they were waiting for him in Honduras.
Making President Trump’s Bed: A Housekeeper Without Papers
BEDMINSTER, N.J. — During more than five years as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., Victorina Morales has made Donald J. Trump’s bed, cleaned his toilet and dusted his crystal golf trophies. When he visited as president, she was directed to wear a pin in the shape of the American flag adorned with a Secret Service logo.
Because of the “outstanding” support she has provided during Mr. Trump’s visits, Ms. Morales in July was given a certificate from the White House Communications Agency inscribed with her name.
Quite an achievement for an undocumented immigrant housekeeper.
The Unseen Driver Behind the Migrant Caravan: Climate Change
Oliver Milman, Emily Holden and David Agren, writing for The Guardian, look at the environmental reasons driving the migrant caravan of Central Americans making their way north. It’s a compelling read.