Immigration / Border / Family Separation
- Trump doubles down as anger grows over child separation policy (Al Jazeera)
- Sessions: Child migrant camps ‘not like Nazi concentration camps’ (BBC)
- What Is Really Behind Trump’s Controversial Immigration Policies? by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
- Jeff Sessions Defends Immigrant Separation Policy Against Nazi Germany Comparisons by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Jeff Sessions tries to beat back Nazi comparisons, gets literally everything wrong by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- First Ladies Unite Against Separating Children At Border by Sarah McCammon (NPR)
- Hundreds of members at Sessions’s church write formal complaint over immigration policy by Brooke Seipel (The Hill)
- Bipartisan group of ex-US Attorneys call for Sessions to end separation of migrant families by Brooke Seipel (The Hill)
- 75 bipartisan former U.S. attorneys call on Sessions to end family separations by Louis Nelson (Politico)
- Trump loses temper over border wall funding by Burgess Everett (Politico)
- Religious Leaders Condemn Family Separations—but Not Necessarily Trump by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
- How Did the GOP Find Itself Separating Families? by Bethany Mandel (The Atlantic)
- The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants by Mckay Coppins (The Atlantic)
- Why are Republicans grasping for excuses on family separation? Because their voters support it by Amanda Marcotte (Salon)
- Families divided at the border: ‘The most horrific immigration policy I’ve ever seen’ by Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
- Laura Ingraham Says Migrant Children Separated From Parents Are Being Kept in What Are Basically “Summer Camps” by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- George Takei compares separation of migrant families to Japanese internment camps by Brooke Seipel (The Hill)
- Trump says immigrants will ‘infest our country’ in Twitter tirade, as US border row rages on by Mythili Sampathkumar (Independent)
- Separating kids from parents at the border mirrors a ‘textbook strategy’ of domestic abuse, experts say by Kevin Loria (Independent)
- Trump smears all immigrants in new tweet — not just undocumented ones by Frank Dale (ThinkProgress)
- The Democratic Senate bill that would stop family separations, explained by Ella Nilsen (Vox)
- Trump’s separation of families at the border: a visual explainer by Alvin Chang (Vox)
- Trump derides border security, but calls plan to add judges ‘crazy’ by Michael D. Shear and Sheryl Gay Stolberg (The NY Times)
- All 4 former living first ladies condemn Trump border policy that separates families by Matt Stevens and Sarah Mervosh (The NY times)
- How anti-immigration passion was inflamed from the fringe by Michael D. Shear and Katie Benner (The NY Times)
- The facts about Trump’s policy of separating families on the border by Salvador Rizzo (The Washington Post)
- Congressional Republicans Race To Minimize Damage From Trump Family Separation Policy by Kelsey Snell (NPR)
- Opposing Family Separation, Governors Cancel National Guard Troops On The Border by Amita Kelly (NPR)
- What We Know: Family Separation And ‘Zero Tolerance’ At The Border by Camila Domonoske, Richard Gonzales (NPR)
- Ted Cruz says he’s going to introduce “emergency” legislation to stop family separation by Jane Coaston (Vox)
- Separating Families At The Border Is Really Unpopular by Dhrumil Mehta (FiveThirtyEight)
- Trump Says Democrats Want Immigrants to ‘Infest’ the U.S. by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
- Methodists Bring Church Charges Against Jeff Sessions For Border Policy by Carol Kuruvilla (Huffington Post)
- Trump Blames Democrats for Family Separation Crisis and Letting Immigrants “Infest Our Country” by Tonya Riley (Mother Jones)
- There’s Reason to Be Skeptical of Cruz’s Proposal to End Family Separation by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- The Trump Administration Is Separating 65 Children a Day From Their Parents by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- A “Mass Mobilization” for Separated Families Is Planned for June 30 by Lucy Diavolo (Teen Vogue)
- G.O.P. Moves to End Trump’s Family Separation Policy, but Can’t Agree How by Michael D. Shear, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Thomas Kaplan (NY Times)
- The Trump administration keeps blaming ‘loopholes’ in immigration law for its family separation policy — here’s what’s really going on by Michelle Mark (Business Insider, UK)
- Fact-Checking Family Separation by Amrit Cheng (ACLU.org)
- Ex-ICE director on family separation: “You could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the US” by Jennifer Kirby (Vox)
- Congressional Democrats are calling for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to resign by Li Zhou (Vox)
- The National Outrage Over Immigration Is Beginning to Get to Trump by Elaina Plott (The Atlantic)
- A 10-Year-Old With Down Syndrome Has Been Separated From Her Family at the Border by Ben Dreyfuss (Mother Jones)
- We Decoded the Scribbled Notes Nielsen Carried Into Her White House Briefing by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- The Methodists Are Thinking About Ejecting Jeff Sessions Over Family Separations by Becca Andrews (Mother Jones)
- 10 Governors Are Fighting Back Against Family Separation by Kara Voght (Mother Jones)
- New lawsuit challenges Trump administration over family separation by Josh Gerstein (Politico)
China / Tariffs / ZTE
- Trump tariffs: US escalates trade threats to China (BBC)
- Stock Markets Drop Amid Escalating Tariff Threats by Charlotte Norsworthy (NPR)
- ZTE, U.S. suppliers shares tank after Senate puts Trump reprieve in doubt by Sijia Jiang (Reuters)
- White House says China has more to lose in trade war by Ana Swanson (The NY Times)
- Trump threatens all-out trade war with China, tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods by Bob Bryan (Business Insider, UK)
IG Report / FBI
- Republicans dispute watchdog’s conclusion about political bias at FBI by Kyle Cheney (Politco)
- WATCH LIVE: Justice Department Inspector General Testifies Before 2 House Panels by Miles Parks (NPR)
UN Human Rights Council
- US to ‘quit U.N. Human Rights Council’ (BBC News)
- Trump Administration to Announce US Withdrawal From UN Human Rights Council by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- Report: U.S. To Withdraw From U.N. Human Rights Council by Lesley Wroughton, Steve Holland (Huffington Post)
- US expected to disengage from UN’s Human Rights Council by Elise Labor (CNN)
- U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N. Human Rights Council by Colin Dwyer (NPR)
- US quits UN human rights council – ‘a cesspool of political bias’ by Julian Borger (The Guardian)
Other News
- Is Trump Plotting to Keep His Budget Director in Charge of the CPFB? by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
- Trump’s new health insurance rules expected to hurt Obamacare by Paul Demko (Politico)\
- Trump is finalizing one of his big proposals to undercut the ACA by Dylan Scott (Vox)
- John Kelly reportedly doesn’t even care if Trump is impeached by Emily Stewart (Vox)
- Breaking: Michael Cohen, Holding His Cards Close to the Vest, Has Hired a New Lawyer by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair)
- Trump Jr. pulls out of George P. Bush fundraiser by James Arkin (Politico)
- White House Deputy Chief Of Staff Retires by Scott Horsley (NPR)
Opinion
- Why celebrating Juneteenth is more important now than ever by P.R. Lockhart (Vox)