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Policy in its place

Government | How to move forward isn’t the only important question in politics

by Janie B. Cheaney
Posted 9/05/19, 11:01 am

The new documentary One Child Nation explores the effects of China’s infamous “one-child policy” from 1980 to 2015. In the film, co-director Nanfu Wang returns to her home village to reflect on growing up while the policy was in place, though ignorant of its implications. Only when she herself became pregnant, as an adult living in the United States, did her thoughts turn to the bitter harvest of the one-child years in her home country. While interviewing an elderly midwife, she asks how many babies the woman delivered. “I really don’t know how many I delivered.

No safe haven

Immigration | Sending asylum-seekers to Mexico to await their court hearings means sending them back to life-threatening conditions (This is the second story in a series.)

by Sophia Lee
Posted 8/29/19, 01:09 pm

Carlos Benjamin Dubon-Moro says that when someone shot his brother multiple times, he had no idea if those bullets were meant for him or if it was a random act of violence. The 27-year-old Guatemalan father of three said he had been receiving threats after campaigning for a political candidate before the shooting. That’s the problem in Guatemala, he told me: You just never know—and you better get out before you find out.

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Sent ‘home’

Immigration | ICE agents are rounding up more Iraqi Christians living with legal status in the United States, as questions mount over the death of Jimmy Aldaoud

by Mindy Belz
Posted 8/09/19, 05:54 pm

In essence, Jimmy Aldaoud was what lawyers call low-hanging fruit. The 41-year-old Detroit suburb resident had more than 20 convictions, the most notable for assault and stealing power tools from a garage in 2012. Family and friends say doctors believed he was bipolar with schizoaffective disorder, plus he was a diabetic.

Two mass murders

Politics | Where do we go from here?

Marvin Olasky | 8/05/19, 05:38 pm

Rush-to-judgment pundits left and right are opining about the two shootings this weekend. Nothing they or anyone else says will bring back to life the 31 who died. Words won’t repair the spirit of those who loved them or heal the bodies of the many who were injured. But for the rest of us, before the blame game goes into extra innings—let’s take a deep breath.

Leo Tolstoy opened Anna Karenina with this now-famous line: “Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” That’s true about eras in American history as well.

Report reveals ‘disturbing’ secret Border Patrol Facebook group

Harvest Prude | 7/02/19, 12:13 pm

Members of a secret Facebook group for current and former Border Patrol agents made racist, sexually explicit, and callous comments about migrants and Hispanic members of Congress, according to a report published by ProPublica on Monday. Close to 9,500 current and former Border Patrol members were members of the group, the news site noted.

U.S. moves migrant children out of poor conditions

Kyle Ziemnick | 6/25/19, 11:19 am

WASHINGTON—The United States on Monday moved more than 250 migrant children from a Border Patrol station near El Paso, Texas, after reports revealed inadequate living conditions at the facility. A team of lawyers that visited the station in Clint, Texas, on Thursday said they saw hungry, filthy children in cramped conditions. Teenagers cared for infants and toddlers, and 15 children had the flu while 10 others lived in medical quarantine.

A tech cold war

Politics | The U.S. blacklists Chinese tech giant Huawei as a trade war intensifies

June Cheng | 5/23/19, 08:43 am

Tensions between the United States and China rose in mid-May after the Trump administration placed Chinese telecom giant Huawei on a trade blacklist over espionage concerns. In response, Google said it would suspend business with the second-largest smartphone maker.

Two days later, the U.S. Commerce Department delayed the ban, giving tech companies permission to work with Huawei for another 90 days in order to keep smartphones up-to-date and secure.

Trade war, continued

Economy | China’s trade talks with the United States come as the Communist nation battles an economic slump

June Cheng | 5/09/19, 02:34 pm

Stocks dropped this week after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose higher tariffs on Chinese goods. Trump’s warning came after China backtracked on several key U.S. demands amid ongoing trade negotiations between the two countries—negotiations occurring as China grapples with an economic slump.

Medicare, Social Security going broke, feds warn

Kent Covington | 4/24/19, 11:18 am

As talk of government-run healthcare gains steam on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, a new report warned Monday that Medicare and Social Security could soon be insolvent. The annual report by the Social Security Board of Trustees said Medicare is on track for insolvency within the next seven years and Social Security will run dry within the next 16 years. Ahead of next year’s election, President Donald Trump has declared cuts to those programs off-limits.

Who’s funding the migrant caravans?

Immigration | In my reporting on Central American migrants, finding the answer has proven complicated

Sophia Lee | 4/15/19, 03:25 pm

Ever since I started reporting on the migrant crisis at the U.S. southern border, there’s a question I’ve been asking: Is somebody funding this mass migration? Is someone paying for these migrants’ travel, food, and shelter—and if so, who? What’s the agenda?