Can Trump do all that immediately?

He made a bunch of promises to reverse the Obama Administration’s actions and things that happened during those eight years. How many of them can he fulfill? David Lauter of the Los Angeles Times answers that question: He can’t reverse Roe v. Wade immediately. It would take a court case getting up to the Supreme …

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Horrific numbers

How many people in the world are refugees, asylum seekers or internally-displaced within their own country? Think about that when you click the remote to change channels, get up for a glass of cold water from your refrigerator, or use your 20th-century plumbing and feel mildly aggrieved about something in your life.

Federal court to Texas — no you can’t

Can’t what, you ask? Can’t block Syrian refugees from settling in Texas. In his order on Thursday, Judge Godbey rejected claims that the government and the IRC were violating the Refugee Act of 1980 because the law as written doesn’t give Texas or any other state or locality the right to sue. Texas claimed it …

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Denmark, really?

News item: Denmark approves controversial refugee bill allowing police to seize asylum seekers’ cash and valuables Yep. You’re reading that rightly. Denmark’s right-wing minority party managed to persuade both the opposition party and the anti-immigrant one that taking assets from refugees who’ve just risked their lives and traveled thousands of miles was an ethically and …

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Brown-skinned people go home!

That is Donald Trump’s message, and some of his fellow candidates for the Republican nomination for President are echoing him. As a Democrat, I couldn’t be more pleased. Hillary or Bernie will still have to work hard to gain the votes of our Hispanic/Latino fellow citizens, but it doesn’t hurt when your opposition party unleashes …

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