Julia Conley

Trump Administration Opens Door for Corporate Attack on Vulnerable Wildlife

If Interior Department’s proposals are approved, “Zinke will go down in history as the extinction secretary.”

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By Julia Conley
The rusty-patched Bumble bee (Bombus affinis) has become the first bee species to be officially placed on the endangered species list (Photo: Photo: Dan Mullen/Flickr)

Gutting the law that has protected the bald eagle, the American crocodile, the gray wolf, and countless other animals from extinction over the past four decades, the Trump administration gave its latest handout to corporate interests on Thursday when it unveiled sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). "These regulations are the

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All Remaining Charges Dropped Against Trump Inauguration Protesters After ‘Epic Failure’ to Prove Wrongdoing

The government initially charged the protesters with felony rioting, but were able to secure only one guilty plea to the charge. Twenty pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.

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By Julia Conley
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More than three dozen defendants in the year-long #J20 trial celebrated Friday evening after prosecutors dismissed all remaining charges against them, following a number of failures to prove the protesters were guilty of wrongdoing. "The state failed at silencing dissent and today our movement is stronger than it was on #J20," tweeted Dylan

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The Trump Administration was Just Ordered to End Indefinite Detention of Asylum Seekers

The Trump administration’s indefinite detention of people exercising their legal right to seek asylum violated not only U.S. law but also the 1967 Protocol to the United Nations’ 1951 Convention on the Treatment of Refugees.

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By Julia Conley
Indefinite Detention of Asylum Seekers

Immigrant rights advocates on Tuesday applauded a federal judge's ruling that the Trump administration cannot detain asylum seekers who are awaiting immigration hearings—a practice that breaks the government's own policies as well as international law. https://twitter.com/ACLU/status/1013909726319513600 The ACLU filed a lawsuit earlier this

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Children Drugged and Given Forced Injections at Texas Detention Facility

According to a lawsuit filed in April, children at Shiloh Treatment Center in Manvel, Texas have been given powerful psychotropic drugs and forced injections without the consent of their parents.

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By Julia Conley
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As thousands of children remain in federal custody after being taken from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, federal court filings allege that children in at least one detention center in Texas have been forcibly given medications that have made them dizzy, lethargic, and even incapacitated. "You don't have to be a rocket scientist here;

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Military Contractors Are Making Tens of Millions Helping Trump Tear Families Apart

In less than one year, MVM, an intelligence contractor, has made $42.9 million transporting minors to centers in Texas.

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By Julia Conley
A family unit and unaccompanied minors encountered by Border Patrol Agents and Texas Game Wardens, wait as paper work is filled out. Wednesday, April 8, 2015.

While outraged Americans across the country are calling their elected representatives and taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration's forcible separation of parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, intelligence and defense contractors are raking in millions thanks to the cruel practice. According to reporting by the Daily

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Unsettling Trump Mural Greets Children at Detention Center in Former Walmart

“I have been inside a federal prison and county jails. This place is called a shelter but these kids are incarcerated.”

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By Julia Conley
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Children who are taken to the former Walmart which now serves as a detention center for young immigrants in Brownsville, Texas, are greeted by a mural of the man responsible for their incarceration—President Donald Trump. MSNBC journalist Jacob Soboroff was given a tour of the facility, now known as Casa Padre. He shared images of the mural,

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Americans Outraged as Trump Plans to Construct Tent Cities to Imprison Migrant Children

“U.S. authorities should focus on keeping families together, ensuring due process in asylum adjudications, and protecting the rights of children.”

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By Julia Conley
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With the Trump administration's forcible separation of families resulting in packed government detention facilities for children, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department is considering the construction of so-called "tent cities," or prison camps, at military bases in Texas to house unaccompanied migrant

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