- A growing number of states — so far, eight — are pulling their National Guard troops off our southern border because their governors want no part of Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. Read this story here and here.
- Over 640 members of Jeff Sessions’ church have formally accused him of violating church policies. Read this story here. The attorney general is facing potential discipline, up to expulsion, for his complicit role in Trump’s family separation policy. Read that story here.
- Donald Trump Jr. has pulled out of a fundraiser for George P. Bush, who is running for reelection to a Texas state office, because his father, Jeb Bush, criticized President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. Read this story here.
- President Trump defends his policy of separating children from their parents. Read this story here.
- A former Border Patrol senior officer says Border Patrol agents should disobey orders to detain children. Read this story here.
- Fox News is getting blowback for its softball coverage of Trump’s immigration actions. Read this story here.
- Rightwing talk show host Laura Ingraham described children in cages as “summer camp.” Read this story here.
- Former Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer said Trump’s family separation policy is “immoral,” and Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, called it “child abuse,” but Republican Sen. David Perdue called it “the current shiny object of the day” and said the press should focus on the debt instead. Read those stories here, here, and here.
- Democrats in Congress protested Trump’s immigration enforcement policies by disrupting a hearing and blocking a street outside the Capitol. Elsewhere, protests and demonstrations are being planned. Read those stories here, here, and here.
- A Guatemalan mother who passed initial asylum screening is suing the U.S. government for taking her child from her. Read this story here.
- All five living former First Ladies joined in a statement blasting Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. Read this story here.
- Methodists, Catholics, and Mormons disavow Trump’s immigration enforcement policies. Read this story here, here, and here.
- Democrats demanded DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation after she refused to apologize for Trump administration’s family separations policy. Read this story here. An Emmy award-winning TV producer who’s known Nielsen since college lit into her for trying “to defend the indefensible” and called on her to resign in a CNN op-ed. Read his comments here.
- A Silicon Valley couple started a fundraiser on Facebook to raise $1,500 to help reunite immigrant families with their children. They got $5 million in a few hours. Read this story here.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren is moving to block a Trump nominee who may have played a role in his immigration enforcement policies. Read this story here.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook called the border separations “inhumane” and “heartbreaking.” Mark Zuckerberg said “we need to stop this policy right now. Other CEOs termed Trump’s policy “heartless and cruel.” Read these stories here, here, and here.
- Several Hispanic congressmen confronted Trump at the Capitol as he left a Republican meeting. He turned his back on them and walked away. Read this story here.
Clearly, the American nation is aroused, and is rising in anger against this travesty.