Category Archives: human rights

Matt Gaetz Tried To Eject Parkland Parents From Congressional Gun Hearing

On Wednesday, during the House’s first gun violence hearing in eight years, Florida Representative Matt Gaetz tried to remove Parkland parents from the audience. The parents took issue with Gaetz’s derision of H.R. 8, an act that would require background checks for every gun purchase in America. Gaetz asserted that Donald Trump’s proposed border wall should be a primary focus in the gun violence debate instead.

Source: Matt Gaetz Tried To Eject Parkland Parents From Congressional Gun Hearing

I’m an Abortion Provider and It’s Time To Tell the Truth About Abortion in Later Pregnancy

Abortion later in pregnancy is not common, and this law will not make it more common—just more accessible. The RHA does not mean that abortion after 24 weeks is permissible for any reason, despite how some conservative lawmakers have characterized the legislation. The circumstances that lead to late abortion are unique are often times very difficult for my patients. My job is to treat them with compassion. We should all treat patients like this with compassion instead of criminalizing them.

Source: I’m an Abortion Provider and It’s Time To Tell the Truth About Abortion in Later Pregnancy

In rush to revamp Medicaid, Trump officials bend rules that protect patients – Los Angeles Times- Trump-“people on Medicaid are all losers and should have to work for their porridge and beg for some, please sir?” Oliver Twist workhouses!

The Trump administration is scaling back independent evaluation of its most controversial healthcare proposals, including moves to impose work requirements in Medicaid.

Source: In rush to revamp Medicaid, Trump officials bend rules that protect patients – Los Angeles Times

State of the Union Fact Check: What Trump Got Right and Wrong – The New York Times

“The border city of El Paso, Tex., used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the entire country, and considered one of our nation’s most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country.” This is false. El Paso was never one of the most dangerous cities in the United States, and crime has been declining in cities across the country — not just El Paso — for reasons that have nothing to do with border fencing. In 2008, before border barriers had been completed in El Paso, the city had the second-lowest violent crime rate among more than 20 similarly sized cities. In 2010, after the fencing went up, it held that place. Sign Up for On Politics With Lisa Lerer A spotlight on the people reshaping our politics. A conversation with voters across the country. And a guiding hand through the endless news cycle, telling you what you really need to know. SIGN UP

Lawyer for 21 Savage Calls Arrest ‘a Civil Law Violation’ Based On ‘Incorrect Information’ – racism in action

An attorney for 21 Savage has released a statement regarding the rapper’s arrest by ICE on Sunday, saying that he was apprehended “based upon incorrect information about prior criminal charges.”

Source: Lawyer for 21 Savage Calls Arrest ‘a Civil Law Violation’ Based On ‘Incorrect Information’

ACLU Lawyer Responds to Trump Administration Child Welfare Comment Warning: WTF content ahead! Trump Administration Argument suitable for Nazi Camp Commander!

“The administration is acting as if these are children who are adopted, whose parents gave them up for adoption decades ago and now all of a sudden bringing a parent into their life would destabilize their life,” Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants Rights Project and its lead attorney on the case, told Jezebel. “We’re talking about children who were forcibly taken from their parents in the last year and the administration is trying to claim that it’s for the child’s own good not to reunite with their parents. That makes no sense and can’t be justified from a child welfare standpoint.”

Source: ACLU Lawyer Responds to Trump Administration Child Welfare Comment

Rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration – for being British | Music | The Guardian – just doing their best “racist” to do what #45 believes to be their job – be racist!

Atlanta rapper held early on Sunday in Super Bowl city, a week before Grammys for which he is nominated twice

Source: Rapper 21 Savage arrested by US immigration – for being British | Music | The Guardian

Trump Admin Says It’s Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing | HuffPost

On Friday, officials from the Trump administration said it would require too much effort to reunite the thousands of families it separated before implementing its “zero-tolerance” policy in April, according to a declaration filed as part of an ongoing lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Last month, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services released a report stating that “thousands” more immigrant families had been separated than the government had previously disclosed. In the declaration submitted Friday, HHS officials said they don’t know the exact number of children who were taken from their parents before “zero tolerance” and that finding them would be too much of a “burden” since there was no formal tracking system in place.

Source: Trump Admin Says It’s Too Hard To Reunite Thousands Of Separated Families: Court Filing | HuffPost