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News & Views | Tuesday, June 19, 2018

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Trump Finally Admits He's Responsible: "You Have to Take the Children Away"
by Jake Johnson, staff writer
After weeks of evasions and outright lies aimed at avoiding responsibility for the torture he has inflicted upon immigrant families, President Donald Trump finally admitted in an off-the-rails speech on Tuesday that the thousands of family separations that have taken place on his watch are a direct consequence of his administration's decision to prosecute parents who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

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	'Outraged, But Frankly Not Surprised': In Defense of Serial Violator Israel, US Ditches UN Human Rights Council by Jon Queally, staff writer In what critics framed as Orwellian 'up-is-down, down-is-up' remarks from top Trump administration officials on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially announced that the U.S. is withdrawing from its participation in the U.N. Human Rights Council, claiming the body responsible for upholding international standards for human rights was no longer "worthy of its name."
	'Morally Bankrupt': After Tax Cuts for Richest, House GOP Unveils $5.4 Trillion Attack on Nation's Safety Net by Jake Johnson, staff writer With the nation's attention rightly fixated on President Donald Trump's horrific treatment of immigrant children, House Republicans on Tuesday quietly unveiled a 2019 budget proposal that calls for $537 billion in cuts to Medicare, $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, and four billion in cuts to Social Security over the next decade in an effort to pay for their deficit-exploding tax cuts for the wealthy.
	The White House Didn't Want You To Hear Stephen Miller's Voice Defend Family Separation (And the NYT Said OK) by Julia Conley, staff writer Although far-right activist-turned-White House policy adviser Stephen Miller has been a chief architect of the Trump administration's forcible separation of families, he has remained largely behind the scenes as outrage has grown over the practice—and on Tuesday, the White House displayed its intention to keep it that way.
	Elizabeth Warren: Trump Holding "Thousands of Kids Hostage to Try and Get Congress to Pay for His Stupid Wall" by Jon Queally, staff writer With national outrage boiling over the Trump administration's cruel and unprecedented policy of separating children from their migrant or asylum-seeking parents, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling out the president directly for both creating the crisis in the first place and now doing nothing to end it.
	Mass Mobilization Planned for June 30 to Protest Trump's Cruel Separation of Families by Julia Conley, staff writer As outrage spreads over the Trump administration's forcible separation of families, human rights groups are calling on Americans to attend mass protests on Saturday, June 30 to speak out against President Donald Trump's immigration policy.
	Sessions' Separation of Families Results in Charges of Child Abuse and Immorality From His Own Church by Julia Conley, staff writer Bringing charges against Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the church where he's been been a member for many years, more than 600 clergy and lay people of the United Methodist Church wrote a formal complaint this week regarding Sessions' enforcement of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.

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	It’s All About the Midterms: Trump Took Those Children Hostage to Stoke His Base by Juan Cole Ripping infants out of the arms of their mothers excites Trump’s base.
	Children Say NO! to Family Separations by ICE by Tim Wilkins “Because I am out here, fighting for them to have the right to be with their families, to be happy.”
	The Fallacy of Israel's Human Shields Claims in Gaza by Neve Gordon, Nicola Perugini Desperately trying to justify the killing of unarmed protesters, Israel once again uses its 'human shields' mantra.
	Cruel and Usual Trump by Pierre Tristam The zero-tolerance policy at the border doesn’t enslave children but it achieves the same ends: it dehumanizes parents and children and treats both as surplus merchandise warehoused in prisons, without a say, without rights.
	Scholastic Under Fire for Children’s Book Portrayal of Trump by Lornet Turnbull Parents and teachers aren’t angry over what the new book says about the president, but rather what it leaves out.
	ALEC’s Deadly Asbestos Agenda Benefits Koch Industries, Nationwide by Don Wiener, Mary Bottari The ALEC bill offered by DeGroot would mean that many victims would not live to see their day in court.