The migrants on the Southern border are treated as an army of feckless invaders. Families are being broken up , children are kept in hot, fetid disease-ridden camps, and no one in the government seems to know how many are in detention, where they are or which children belong to which parents. Common decency, and Epicurean …
One gets the impression that the US is the only country holding migrants in what amounts to jail. But a snapshot by The Guardian of 200 migrants held in seven British detention centres found more than half were suicidal, seriously ill, or. victims of torture, with 84% not told when they would be deported. Almost half …
Out of England’s 334 high-rise blocks of flats with the same cladding as Grenfell Tower, 69 have so far had it removed. ( U.K Ministry of Housing) (The cladding on Grenfell Tower turned out to be flammable. Scores of people were trapped in the burning high-rise apartment block on 14 June 2017 and were killed)
The American Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly two decades. Only three federal executions have taken place since 1988, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. All five of the death-row inmates named in Thursday’s release were convicted for the murders of children. …
One survey of Amazon facilities showed that74% of Amazon workers skip going to the bathroom to avoid having their pay cut, and over 80% said they would never apply for another Amazon job again. I once worked for an American company doing contract document copying . The hours of work were 6 a.m to 6 …
