Trump administration

Keep kids with parents at border — and remember how we got here

By Tony Perkins — June 28, 2018
(RNS) — If the executive order survives the courts, it will undoubtedly be more compassionate than previous policies, which enticed parents and other adults attempting illegal crossings to subject children to the dangers of the desert, the division of families and even death.

Why won’t most of Trump’s ‘court evangelicals’ publicly condemn his border policy?

By John Fea — June 21, 2018
(RNS) — While a few conservative evangelical Trump supporters have openly criticized his administration's border policy separating children from their parents, most of the 'court evangelicals' have not. Their silence sheds light on how evangelicals have defined 'family values' for the past 40 years.

Abuse of immigrant children: a state-sanctioned crime in America?

By Brian D. McLaren — June 12, 2018
(RNS ) The current administration must fully address these chilling reports, bring perpetrators to justice, prevent further abuse and discontinue this ugly scheme of family separation.

Half sib? Welcome. Fiance? Not so fast. New travel ban rules decried as illogical

By Lauren Markoe — June 29, 2017
(RNS) Muslim and other civil rights groups say the Trump administration's interpretation of a 'bona fide relationship' is unreasonably narrow.

Attempts to silence Muslims, Arabs and South Asians won’t work

By Manar Waheed — February 14, 2017
(RNS) The administration has already learned it was wrong when it came to one executive order — it’s time that it learned that it was wrong on all fronts.

Evangelicals in Trump’s Cabinet: Choice of Pruitt alarms scientists, environmentalists

By Kimberly Winston — December 8, 2016
(RNS) Could Trump's Christian Cabinet picks have a chilling effect on the teaching of science in public schools?
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