Hollis Johnson Red Lobster is no longer advertising on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, the chain told Business Insider Monday. The seafood chain follows at least 19 other advertisers that have cut advertising on the show since December, including IHOP, Minted, and the jobs site Indeed. The Fox News host sparked backlash recently for blaming […]
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Advertisers are fleeing in droves after Tucker Carlson’s comments about immigrants on Fox News — check out the list
Rich Polk/Getty Images for Politicon Companies that ran advertisements during Tucker Carlson’s timeslot on Fox News have begun fleeing in droves, following the controversial comments he made about immigrants seeking shelter in the US. People were outraged and threatened boycotts after Carlson expressed concern with the US’s immigration policy. After Carlson’s comments were widely rebuked […]
Should Immigrants Be Forced to Forsake Their Homelands?
This week: Should Immigrants Be Forced to Forsake Their Homelands? Let us know by email or in the comments below. I’m going to let you in on a secret. I’m a Brit who’s been living in America for nearly six years … and I don’t really like America. I don’t like American sports; I don’t […]
The Burden of Being the Oldest Son of Immigrants
Editor’s Note: This article is part of an oral-history series where Aaron Reiss interviewed the young-adult sons and daughters of Chinatown shopkeepers about how they are helping to keep their families’ businesses alive. Jason Luo, a 24-year-old entrepreneur who graduated from helping resolve problems with English-speaking customers in his parents’ JieLi Laundromat to running his […]
The Trump administration is reportedly considering a new family separation policy for immigrants
Associated Press/Matt York The Trump administration is reportedly considering a new family separation policy for immigrants who cross the US-Mexico border with their children. Instead of forcibly splitting up immigrant families at the border, as authorities did under the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, the parents would face a “binary choice” to be held as a […]
A dentist at an immigration detention facility told inspectors he doesn’t have time for cleanings or fillings — but suggested immigrants floss with string from their socks if they’re ‘dedicated to dental hygiene’
Getty Images/John Moore A scathing watchdog report accused an immigration detention facility in California of providing substandard medical and dental care. One of the two dentists overseeing the 1,700 detained immigrants said he doesn’t provide cleanings or fillings because he doesn’t have time. The dentist suggested that immigrants who can’t afford floss from the commissary […]
The Czech Immigrant … Who Opposes Immigrants
Tomio Okamura is scanning the menu in one of those Chinese restaurants that could be anywhere in the world except China — excessive gold decoration, a fish tank in the entrance, swooning traditional music. (This one is in Prague, Czech Republic.) He selects tea and a basic cabbage salad with sliced carrots, smiling as he […]
Here’s why you can’t deport immigrants ‘with no Judges or Court Cases’ like Trump wants
Reuters President Donald Trump has now twice advocated bypassing immigrants’ and asylum-seekers’ due-process rights that have been long established in the US legal system. The US Constitution and Supreme Court decisions set the framework of these rights, afforded to anyone on US soil. President Donald Trump has now twice advocated to strip immigrants and asylum-seekers […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook explains why he spoke out about Trump’s immigration policies: ‘We have a lot of immigrants that work at Apple… I want to stand up for them” (AAPL)
Getty Speaking at the Fortune CEO Initiative in San Francisco Monday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook explained why he chose to speak publicly against President Trump’s immigration policies. Cook thinks CEOs should be cautious about commenting on issues where they don’t have “significant standing,” but urged CEOs to speak out when a public policy doesn’t […]
Protesters temporarily blocked a bus carrying immigrants from a Border Patrol facility in Texas
Associated Press/David J. Phillips Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in McAllen, Texas, on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s recently halted practice of separating immigrant families at the US-Mexico border. Some 2,300 children were taken from their parents since May under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy. Democratic lawmakers said they aren’t convinced that the government has […]