Showing posts with label caravan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label caravan. Show all posts

Thursday, February 24, 2022

A Truck Caravan With Far-Right Links Heads to Washington, D.C. - The New York Times

Many backers of the caravan, planned as an American version of the past month's chaotic Canadian protest, have connections to the violent attack on the Capitol in January 2021...


Tuesday, November 3, 2020

With caravans and outdoor rallies that some see as intimidation, Trump supporters step up public promotion - The Washington Post

...Actions that amount to illegality include violent behavior in or outside polling places, confronting voters in official or military-style outfits, following voters, verbally threatening violence or aggressively asking people whether they are qualified to vote, the institute says...


Thursday, June 20, 2019

As price of insulin soars, Americans caravan to Canada for lifesaving medicine - The Washington Post

As their minivan rolled north, they felt their nerves kick in — but they kept on driving. At the wheel: Lija Greenseid, a rule-abiding Minnesota mom steering her Mazda5 on a cross-border drug run. Her daughter, who is 13, has Type 1 diabetes and needs insulin. In the United States, it can cost hundreds of dollars per vial. In Canada, you can buy it without a prescription for a tenth of that price....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/as-price-of-insulin-soars-americans-caravan-to-canada-for-lifesaving-medicine/2019/06/14/0a272fb6-8217-11e9-9a67-a687ca99fb3d_story.html

Saturday, February 2, 2019

Fox News reporter gets Trump to admit that his wall will do nothing to stop immigrant 'caravans' - Raw Story:

President Donald Trump has been using the supposed threat of migrant "caravans" to push Congress to fund his border wall -- but on Friday, even a Fox News reporter got him to admit that the wall would do nothing to stop them. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/fox-news-reporter-gets-trump-admit-wall-will-nothing-stop-immigrant-caravans/

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Cartoon: Trump News Network - Daily Kos

President Trump wants to start a new state-run broadcast outlet to get the wonderful news of Trump out to the world. This is an extension of his war on the press and CNN in particular. Apparently he wants coverage that is even more fawning than the de facto state news agency, Fox News. This idea comes on the heels of U.S. Border Patrol agents firing tear gas into Mexico to stop the "invasion" of people seeking safety and asylum— er, I mean "stone cold criminals." ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1815917
Trump News Network from MarkFiore on Vimeo.

Friday, November 30, 2018

Methodist church sign reads: ‘I was a stranger and you tear gassed me. ...Wait a second’ - The Hill

A message questioning U.S. border agents' use of tear gas at the southern border was posted outside the United Methodist Building in Washington, D.C., this week. ....
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/418936-message-posted-outside-dc-united-methodist-building-i-was-a

We Can Stop the Flow of Refugees Easily if Republicans Really Want To - Mother Jones

Border zealot Mark Krikorian argues that Democrats are too in favor of open borders—asymptotically, anyway: Although Democrats routinely deny that they're for open borders — dismissing the very suggestion as an outrageous slur — their reaction to Sunday's violence by some of the Central American illegal aliens in Tijuana suggests otherwise. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/11/we-can-stop-the-flow-of-refugees-easily-if-republicans-really-want-to/

Thursday, November 29, 2018

How Tear Gas Became a Favorite Weapon of U.S. Border Patrol, Despite Being Banned In Warfare

As the Trump administration continues to defend firing tear gas into crowds of asylum seekers, we look at the history of tear gas, which is banned in warfare but legal for federal authorities and police to turn on civilians. Border authorities’ use of tear gas has spiked under the Trump administration, with the agency’s own data revealing it has deployed tear gas over two dozen times this year alone. Customs and Border Protection told Newsweek Tuesday it began using tear gas under the Obama administration in 2010. The agency’s use of tear gas has now reached a seven-year record high. We speak with Stuart Schrader, lecturer in sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied how tear gas went from a weapon of war used in Vietnam to being deployed by law enforcement at home. His forthcoming book is titled “Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing.”...
https://youtu.be/8W68UWHYgK8
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Trump’s fake crises overshadow real ones - The Washington Post: Analysis

While Trump rails against migrants, other urgent problems are going ignored across the globe. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/11/27/trumps-fake-crises-overshadow-real-ones/

FACT CHECK: Was the 'Illegal Alien Mom with Kids' Photograph Staged? - www.snopes.com

Chaos erupted in Tijuana, Mexico, on 25 November 2018 when U.S. Border Patrol agents unleashed tear gas on migrants near a major border crossing point. And as per usual, that chaos prompted opportunistic purveyors of misinformation to swing into action.....
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mom-tear-gas-photo/

Beto O’Rourke: Deal with border crisis ‘the right way and follow our own laws’ - The Hill

Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) said Monday the U.S. should follow its own standing immigration laws in dealing with the caravan of migrants attempting to cross the border. ....
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/418196-beto-orourke-deal-with-border-crisis-the-right-way-and-follow-our-own-laws

Border Patrol commissioner contradicts Trump's claim that agents were 'very badly hurt' by rock-throwing migrants - Raw Story

President Donald Trump told the White House press pool Monday that three Border Patrol agents were hurt by migrants throwing rocks and stones at them -- just as the agency's commissioner denied that anyone had been injured. ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/border-patrol-commissioner-contradicts-trumps-claim-agents-badly-hurt-rock-throwing-migrants/

Friday, November 23, 2018

Surprise, a shameless Kirstjen Nielsen is still making up crap about asylum seekers - Daily Kos

Earlier this week, possibly departing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Kirstjen Nielsen blamed asylum seekers for border officials temporarily shutting down some northbound traffic at the San Ysidro, California border crossing—"the busiest land port along the U.S.-Mexico border", USA Today reports—claiming that, "unfortunately, some members of the caravan are purposely causing disruptions at our border ports of entry": ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1814229

Trump administration paying undercover informants in migrant caravan: report - The Hill:

The Trump administration has been paying undercover informants in the migrant caravan moving toward the U.S. ....
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/417653-trump-administration-paying-undercover-informants-in-migrant-caravan

Monday, November 19, 2018

Now that election is over, Ted won't discuss his lie about Beto and the caravan - Daily Kos

Now that the alleged Zodiac Killer has won re-election in Texas, slimy Ted Cruz doesn't want to talk about a lie he told during the campaign: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) brushed off questions Wednesday about his campaign claim that Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D) illegally funded a caravan of migrants approaching the U.S. border. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1813124







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