| No Images? Click here  Thursday, June 21‘PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS FORCED ON CHILDREN’ Migrant children are being routinely drugged with psychotropics by staff working on the behalf of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, according to legal filings. The allegations center on a mental health facility in Texas, but lawyers claim the practice is widespread. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TRUMP ORDER ABANDONS KIDS President Donald Trump’s executive order to end his administration’s policy of separating undocumented immigrant families likely won’t apply to the more than 2,300 children who have already been taken from their parents, the Department of Health and Human Services said. But that didn’t stop Ivanka Trump publicly thanking her dad for ending the family separation policy he started. [HuffPost]EDUCATION AND LABOR MERGER? The Trump administration is to propose merging the departments of labor and education into one federal agency as part of a plan to strip bureaucracy that Trump supporters complain is bloated. [The Washington Post]TOYS SNATCHED The kids who are being separated from their parents at the border are having their toys confiscated, too, while AP is reporting that immigrant children as young as 14 were beaten, handcuffed and left in solitary for long periods at a juvenile detention cener in Virginia. [HuffPost]O: TRUMP POLICY ‘UN-AMERICAN’ Former President Barack Obama called the “cruelty” of splitting immigrant families “un-American.” Yet Trump barely mentioned the immigration uproar at his rally in Minnesota. [HuffPost]HOUSE OF STRAIN Tensions in the House boiled over Wednesday night when Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had a heated exchange on the floor over two immigration bills that lawmakers will vote on today. [HuffPost]
 ‘DON’T COLLABORATE’ A former government employee who quit his job after refusing to hand over information about immigrants to ICE has explained why he left: “You don’t collaborate with fascists.” [HuffPost]TRUMP TO MEET REAL BILLIONAIRE The U.S. ambassador has revealed that Trump will meet with Queen Elizabeth II during a state visit to the United Kingdom next month. [HuffPost]COHEN QUITS Trump’s embattled attorney Michael Cohen, under federal investigation for campaign finance violations, has resigned from his role as deputy finance chair for the Republican National Committee’s finance committee. [HuffPost]COASTAL CRISIS Trump has revoked an Obama-era order aimed at protecting and restoring ocean and coastal health — during National Ocean Month. [HuffPost]‘DIVERSITY LEADS TO CIVIL WAR’ Seth Grossman, the Republican nominee for New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District, claimed diversity is “un-American” and could lead to civil war. [HuffPost]MAGIC MIKE Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will spend $80 million helping Democrats get elected in this year’s midterm elections. [The New York Times]SHOT IN THE BACK Antwon Rose, an unarmed 17-year-old, was shot three times in the back while running away from a traffic stop in Pittsburgh. [HuffPost]
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