Happy Friday, sociologists! Like many of you, we’ve been following the immigration news closely. Here are some of the latest updates and a smattering of other news we’ve managed to catch this week.
Immigration
- ‘Going through hell’ at the border: parents split from children tell of anguish (The Guardian)
- 16 and Alone, Inside a Center for Separated Children in New York (New York Times)
- The story behind the girl begging for aunt after separation from mother (Washington Post)
- Where Migrant Children Are Being Held Across the U.S. (New York Times)
- ‘No one’s going to separate us again’: U.S. returns 7-year-old Guatemalan boy taken from his mother (Washington Post)
- Americans vastly overestimate the number of immigrants. But what if it doesn’t matter? (Washington Post)
- Why it’s legal for Border Patrol to have checkpoints in the US (Vox.com)
- US family separation crisis – in pictures (The Guardian)
- Who Is Dolly Gee, the Judge Deciding the Fate of Trump’s Executive Order? (New York Times)
Immigration and the Media
- Watch: Sinclair forced its TV stations to air pro-Trump propaganda on family separation (Vox.com)
- Time magazine’s cover isn’t bold or brave. It’s exploitative. (Vox.com)
Scaling Back the Safety Net
- Behind Trump’s Plan to Overhaul the Government: Scaling Back the Safety Net (New York Times)
- Nikki Haley attacks damning UN report on US poverty under Trump (The Guardian)
Gender
- ‘It Was 11 Guys on a Bus, and Then Me’: Women on the Warped Tour (New York Times)
- Intel C.E.O. Brian Krzanich Resigns After Relationship With Employee (New York Times)
- When Children Say They’re Trans (The Atlantic)
Labor
- These places will pay U.S. workers thousands of dollars to move there (Washington Post)
- The Overlooked Children Working America’s Tobacco Fields (The Atlantic)
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