A series in which we (will aspire to) offer a sampling of today’s headlines on immigration, race, and related stories.
August 31, 2018
The Kids:
Two updates on separated families: New York Times Editorial Board looks at the ongoing tragedy of those reunified, while the Washington Post covers the nearly 500 kids who remain in US custody.
The Detainees:
Magic: The Gathering artists detained at Sea-Tac and taken to ICE detention center.
The Money:
Undocumented immigrants pay $12 billion to Social Security a year - if immigration were cut in half, Social Security would lose 2.4 trillion over the next 75 years.
Bank of America freezing customer accounts because of citizenship questions.
The Revolving Door:
Sensing a pattern? Ian Smith, DHS policy analyst, resigned his position Tuesday after emails obtained by The Atlantic reveal his ties with the white-nationalist “social scene.”
The World:
Examining how Sweden became a hotbed of anti-immigration nationalism.
Lawyers accuse London’s Home Office of a double standard, rushing high-profile immigration cases through a secret process, while leaving others to languish.
Continuing coverage of the Chemnitz protests and the rise of the far-right in Germany.