Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 07/23/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll speak with a local elected Republican who has been critical of the chants last week at the Trump campaign rally following President Trump’s tweets last… Read more »
WMNF Board Statement On The Treatment of Migrants in the US
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Migrant advocates will hold vigil and "noise demonstration" in Ybor City Friday night
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Tampa Bay SDS destroys a mock ‘border wall’ at USF
President Donald Trump has backed off his threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border; but he’s still going full steam ahead on plans for a massive wall along the border. There’s a protest against that wall this afternoon on the University of South Florida Tampa campus. WMNF interviewed David Jones, a first year student at USF… Read more »
Senator, seeking its closure, visits migrant youth detention camp in Homestead
Senator tours Florida teen detention camp he wants shut down By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A Democratic senator from Oregon advocating against migrant youth detention camps says he toured a Florida facility and found children are being held there for too long in a restrictive environment. U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said… Read more »
Occupy ICE Tampa protest against Trump border wall
Last Friday President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border in order to access disaster funds to build a wall between the two countries; now, local groups are planning a rally Tuesday called Block The Wall Tampa. WMNF interviewed PJ Plastino, a member of the Tampa Bay DSA (Democratic Socialists of America)… Read more »
Protests against the president’s National Emergency Declaration
Protests slam Trump’s emergency declaration for border wall NEW YORK (AP) — Protesters converged in cities around the country Monday to decry President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to fund his planned U.S.-Mexico border wall. Organized by the liberal group MoveOn and others, the demonstrations took the occasion of Presidents Day to assail… Read more »
How exactly does immigration detention work? (updated)
AP Explains: How immigration detention works By ASTRID GALVAN, Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A new proposal by Democrats in negotiations for a funding bill to avert another government shutdown would cap the number of people the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is allowed to hold in detention. They say they want ICE to focus… Read more »
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Fact Checking POTUS: Fake news for February Fourth
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s untruths on Russia probe, wall, jobs By HOPE YEN, CALVIN WOODWARD and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is glossing over the facts when it comes to the Russia investigation and his economic performance. The president suggests the 34 charges issued or guilty pleas achieved by special counsel… Read more »
Hundreds of immigrants given court dates for hearings that weren’t scheduled
Courts turn away hundreds of immigrants, blame shutdown By JENNIFER KAY and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The already backlogged immigration courts faced more hurdles Thursday when hundreds of immigrants arrived with government-issued notices to appear in court for hearings that were never scheduled. U.S. immigration officials blamed the government shutdown and the… Read more »
Citizenship question barred by one court from the 2020 census
Judge bars citizenship question from 2020 census By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge blocked the Trump administration Tuesday from asking about citizenship status on the 2020 census, the first major ruling in cases contending that officials ramrodded the question through for Republican political purposes to intentionally undercount immigrants. In a… Read more »
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Activists Protest Killing of Civilians by Border Patrol
Last Wednesday in Tampa’s Ybor City a group of about a dozen people protested the killing of people in Mexico by US Border Patrol agents. The Associated Press is reporting this morning that: “U.S. authorities fired tear gas into Mexico during the first hours of the new year to repel about 150 migrants who tried… Read more »
US claims medical checks on every child in Border Patrol custody after second child’s death on Christmas Eve
US conducts medical checks on children after 2 deaths By NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities said Wednesday that they have done new medical checks on nearly every child in Border Patrol custody after the death of a second youngster in the agency’s care in the span of less than three weeks…. Read more »
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Refugee children in America, at Christmastime
‘A moral disaster’: AP reveals scope of migrant kids program. By GARANCE BURKE and MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press Decades after the U.S. stopped institutionalizing kids because large and crowded orphanages were causing lasting trauma, it is happening again. The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in… Read more »
Florida & Texas migrant teen detention centers don’t screen staff for abuse or neglect
Caregivers for 3600 migrant teens lack complete abuse checks By MARTHA MENDOZA and GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Nearly every adult working with children in the U.S. — from nannies to teachers to coaches — has undergone state screenings to ensure they have no proven history of abusing or neglecting kids. One exception: thousands of workers at… Read more »
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Feds waive FBI background checks for migrant children camp staff
US waived FBI checks on staff at growing teen migrant camp By GARANCE BURKE AND MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press TORNILLO, Texas (AP) — The Trump administration has put the safety of thousands of teens at a migrant detention camp at risk by waiving FBI fingerprint checks for their caregivers and short-staffing mental health workers, according to… Read more »
