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Day: May 8, 2018

Gina Haspel: Torturers Should be Punished, not Promoted

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(Garrison) – US president Donald Trump should never have nominated Gina Haspel to head the Central Intelligence Agency. When Haspel offered to withdraw her name from consideration, as the Washington Post reports she did during a White House meeting in early May, her offer should have been gratefully accepted. The US Senate should vote against confirming her appointment — ideally, by a margin of 100-0. Each “yes” vote will darken the stain on America’s honor represented by Haspel’s career thus far. Gina Haspel doesn’t belong at the head of the CIA. She…

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The Fight For an Indigenous Female Voice in Latin America

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Latin America (OpenDemocracy) – It was 1983. Rigoberta Menchú was only 24 when she began recounting her life experiences to anthropologist Elizabeth Burgos, a woman who would later launch her into a world of speeches and spotlights, far from the misty forests of her home in Laj Chimel, Guatemala. Already a famous activist in Central America, her testimonial autobiography made her embroidered Mayan coronet internationally recognisable. She arguably became the first globally visible indigenous female political figure to come from Latin America. It is now 2018 and the indigenous female influence…

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Understanding Why Immigrants Are So Crucial to America’s Economic Growth

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(FEE) – On May Day, workers rallied across the nation in support of labor and immigrant rights. Their end goal is to make immigration a key issue in the 2018 midterms. If Congressional Republicans want to help struggling Americans and boost their support going into the midterms, they should take this opportunity to fix our broken immigration system so that more immigrants can call America home. Enlarging the Labor Supply Increasing immigration levels would make U.S. companies more efficient by increasing the labor pool. Many employers say finding qualified talent…

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Jeff Sessions Vows To Separate Children From Parents, Prosecute All Illegal Border Crossers

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United States (TexasTribune) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the Justice Department will begin prosecuting every person who illegally crosses into the United States along the Southwest border, a hard-line policy shift expected to focus in particular on migrants traveling with children. In a speech to law enforcement officials in Scottsdale, Arizona, Sessions said the Department of Homeland Security will begin referring such cases to the Justice Department for prosecution and that federal prosecutors will “take on as many of those cases as humanly possible until we get…

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