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A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria, April 4, 2017.

President Trump, you bombed Assad for killing ‘beautiful babies.’ Why won’t you accept refugee kids?

April 6, 2017Conflict

The US launched its first direct strike on the Syrian regime Friday morning local time after a suspected Damascus-ordered chemical attack killed at least 70 people Tuesday in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun. The attack inspired US President Donald Trump to bomb a Syrian airfield. But will it change his thinking about Syrian refugees?

Demonstrators rallied against the Trump administration's new ban on new refugees and against travelers from six Muslim-majority nations, outside the White House in Washington on March 6.

A judge in Hawaii just blocked Trump’s revamped immigration order

March 15, 2017Global Politics

President Trump, how will your administration deal with US-citizen children whose parents are deported?

March 8, 2017Global Politics

Immigration activists rally against the Trump administration's new ban against travelers from six Muslim-majority nations

Will the travel ban and building a wall fix America’s immigration problems?

March 7, 2017Conflict

Front of building with sign for Prairieland Detention Center

President Trump, how will you handle cases of abuse at privately run prisons and immigration detention centers?

March 2, 2017Justice

Scientists skip international meeting due to fear of US travel

February 20, 2017Science

A handful of scientists skipped a large annual meeting in Boston this weekend, where the impact of Trump administration policies on science took center stage.

Japanese Americans remember a dark chapter when they were ‘more number than name’

February 17, 2017Conflict

Looking back to the US incarceration of Japanese Americans and how, as one historian puts it, people can “lose sight of our important national values of justice and rule of law.”

black and white photo of people holding up signs of location names

New immigration policies are convincing more Japanese Americans to engage in the radical act of remembering

February 16, 2017Justice

Americans were discriminated against and incarcerated during World War II because of their ancestry. Which in turn created a generation of their descendents who don’t want to see it happen again.

Protesters at airport, protesting outdoors in front of airplanes

Activists, on overdrive to respond to Trump’s immigration plans, are making new alliances in Detroit

February 14, 2017Justice

“Even before I shower, my mailbox is almost full. And soon as I wake up my phone starts ringing,” says Detroit organizer Adonis Flores.

Women and children disembark from a bus marked with the insignia of the ICE

#19. @realDonaldTrump: You plan to hire 10,000 more immigration officers. Are you also expanding immigration courts? #100Days100Qs

February 9, 2017Justice

The US spends some $20 billion per year on immigration enforcement. The budget for immigration courts is about $420 million.