Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Kentucky) speaking at the 2016 National Rx Drug Abuse Summit. (Image: House.gov) By Jonathan Larsen A decades-old federal storehouse of treatment and prescription guidelines for the medical profession will be gone as of Monday. And a powerful congressman who led the charge against it scooped up shares last year in stocks of companies that stand to benefit, …
Analysis: FEMA Report on Puerto Rico Response Calls for More Private Contractors
Selection from the cover of new FEMA report urging more private-sector disaster response. (Source: FEMA.gov) By Jonathan Larsen The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) report released late Thursday is making headlines by taking responsibility for how the agency failed Puerto Rico in its response to Hurricane Maria. The 2017 after-action report on the 2017 hurricane season concludes that FEMA failed …
Gianforte Bought Private Prison Stock as Trump Immigration Policy Boosted Its Profits
Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Montana) in a police photo at his booking last year on assault charges. (Image: Gallatin County Justice Court.) By Alex Kotch The second-richest member of Congress made a six-figure purchase earlier this year of stock in a major private prison company that’s profiting handsomely from increased immigrant detention under Trump administration policy, federal records show. Rep. Greg …
Trump Fingerprint Policy Is Likely Reducing Immigrant Family Reunification
Sponsors for undocumented children are being deterred from claiming them by new ICE policy of checking all fingerprints. (Photo illustration; photo by John Moore/Getty Images) By Alex Kotch An invasive new Trump administration fingerprinting policy for families seeking to sponsor immigrant children is already having a chilling effect on reunifications, an immigrant shelter employee tells TYT. And immigrant rights advocates …
Democrats Split on Accepting Private-Prison Donations
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) tells TYT that he stands by accepting donations from private-prison companies, while new campaign filings reveal Dems are increasingly rejecting money from these donors. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. By Alex Kotch Numerous Democratic politicians have begun rejecting donations from private-prison companies contracted by the government to detain undocumented immigrants, TYT has learned. The political action …
Woman Twice Denied Protection Orders by Christian Judge Shot Dead by Ex-Husband
Judge Chad Wise in an undated publicity photo. Image via the Decatur Daily. By Jonathan Larsen Friday’s fatal shooting at the Capital Gazette was not the most recent to emerge from a case of one man stalking one woman. In that case, the woman won in court, but police afterward said they were unable to protect the newspaper that reported …
ICE Training Officers in Military-Grade Weapons, Chemical Agents
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers prepare for morning operations to arrest undocumented immigrants on April 11, 2018, in New York City. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. By Ken Klippenstein The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is quietly training its deportation officers in the use of weapons more familiar to the U.S. military than to domestic law enforcement, …