UN to Release Annual “World Drug Report” While Reformers Rally Worldwide; Groups Accuse Singapore of Using False Drug Use Data to Justify Death Penalty Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 26, 2018 Contact: David Borden A growing coalition with over 140 organizations as of this writing has condemned President Trump’s call to institute the[Read More…]
Opinion
Report Links Poor Medical Care to Deaths in ICE Detention
WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)—June 21, 2018 Contact: ACLU Media Poor medical treatment contributed to more than half the deaths reported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a 16-month period, Human Rights Watch, the American Civil Liberties Union, Detention Watch Network, and National Immigrant Justice Center said in a report released today.[Read More…]
What’s in the Administration’s 5-Part Plan for Medicare Part D and its Impact for Beneficiaries and Program Savings?
CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—June 21, 2018 By: Juliette Cubanski Introduction Today more than 43 million older adults and people with disabilities have prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D. Part D helps people with Medicare afford their medications by subsidizing the purchase of drug coverage from private stand-alone prescription drug plans (PDPs) and[Read More…]
House Republicans’ Immigration Bills Hurt Women and Children, Says Center for American Progress Column
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—June 19, 2018 By: Philip E. Wolgin and Nicole Prchal Svajlenka The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on two immigration bills this week under the premise of helping Dreamers, but a new CAP column finds that the Rep. Bob Goodlatte’s (R-VA) Securing America’s Future Act and Speaker[Read More…]
Amnesty International: Policy of Separating Children from Parents is Nothing Short of Torture
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 19, 2018 By: Amnesty International Communications The sickening images of children cruelly separated from their parents and held in cages as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ policy of ‘zero-tolerance’ will leave an indelible stain on the reputation of the USA, said Amnesty International today. “This is[Read More…]
American Academy of Pediatrics Statement Opposing the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act
Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—June 18, 2018 By: Colleen Kraft, MD, MBA, FAAP, President, American Academy of Pediatrics “The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) strongly opposes the Border Security and Immigration Reform Act, which was released by the U.S. House of Representatives leadership today. Instead of putting children first by[Read More…]
Watching as US Officials Take Children from Their Parents
The Horror of Sessions’ ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Policy TEXAS—(ENEWSPF)—June 18, 2018 By: Michael Garcia Bochenek, Senior Counsel, Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch Sitting across from me in an immigration holding cell in McAllen, Texas, the 24-year-old woman told me a familiar story. Her town in Honduras is plagued by[Read More…]
Michelle Obama on Laura Bush Op-ed: ‘Sometimes Truth Transcends Party’
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 18, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Former first lady Michelle Obama joined Laura Bush and Melania Trump by weighing in on the controversy surrounding the Trump administration’s practice of separating undocumented children from their parents at the southern border. “Sometimes truth transcends party,” Obama said in a tweet responding to Bush,[Read More…]
Former First Lady Laura Bush Calls Family Separations Cruel And Immoral
TEXAS—(ENEWSPF)—June 18, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Former first lady Laura Bush issued statement about the Trump Administration’s immigration policy on Sunday, calling family separations at the U.S. border with Mexico “immoral” and drawing parallels to World War II internment camps. Bush’s editorial in The Washington Post mirrored growing criticism of[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Comments on Trump Administration’s Inhumane Immigration Policies
Chicago —(ENEWSPF)—June 18, 2018 By: Rosemary Piser Attorney General Lisa Madigan issued the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s immigration policies that separate families at the border and turn away survivors of domestic violence: “It’s painful to think of anything more barbaric and unforgiving than tearing children away from[Read More…]
