Chantal Da Silva

Reporter

Chantal Da Silva is a Reporter at Newsweek focused on U.S. politics, immigration and rights issues. She is a Canadian-British journalist whose work has also been featured by The Independent, The i Newspaper, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and elsewhere. Chantal has an MA in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario. Get in touch with Chantal at c.dasilva@newsweek.com.

  
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 Trump Administration Accused of Continuing Separations Of the new separations, the Trump administration said 225 were over "parent criminality, prosecution, gang affiliation or other law enforcement" purposes.
  
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 What Is Astroturfing? Ocasio-Cortez Deletes Tweet "The practice of astroturfing to manipulate public opinion is notorious," New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said.
  
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 Harris, Warren Show Support for Reparations for Slavery "People aren't starting out on the same base in terms of their ability to succeed, and so we have got to recognize that and give people a lift up," Senator Kamala Harris said.
  
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 Immigration Groups Defy 'Remain in Mexico' Policy Asylum seekers are "being returned to Mexico without any meaningful consideration of the dangers they face there," a filing from a coalition of immigration advocacy groups states.
  
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 AOC Hits Out at Critics Over Pro-Amazon Billboard "Few things effectively communicate the power we've built in fighting dark money & anti-worker policies like billionaire-funded groups blowing tons of cash on wack billboards," said New York...
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez vs. GOP: The Insults Hurled at the NY Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's critics have paid for a billboard in New York City's Times Square that blames the congresswoman for single-handedly bringing down a major deal between Amazon and New York.
  
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 Off-duty ICE Officer Fatally Shoots Man In Parking Lot It is unclear what occurred in the moments leading up to the deadly shooting. 
  
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 Scientists Warn Against Trump's Space Force: 'Bad Idea' President Donald Trump's space force could "increase the likelihood of conflict" in outer space, warned Laura Grego, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists.
  
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 Trump Said Immigrants Kept Courses 'Green': Advocate "Mr. Trump boasted about his beautiful green golf course when we were talking about the importance of undocumented people in the labor market," immigration advocate Gaby Pacheco told Newsweek.
  
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 Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 Election Bid "We began the political revolution in the 2016 campaign, and now it's time to move that revolution forward," Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said in announcing his 2020 run.
  
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 Trump 'Not Well at All,' Former Bush Ethics Czar Says "He is not capable of doing the job," Richard Painter said of President Donald Trump.
  
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 Can Pentagon Stop Trump From Using Its Funds for Wall? Section 2808 of Title 10 of the U.S. Code suggests that authority on the redirection of funds rests with the secretary of defense.
  
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 McCabe: Trump Said 80% of FBI Workers Voted for Him The president also asked Andrew McCabe whether he voted for him.
  
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 Most Viewed Political Videos on Twitter Video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's recent "Corruption Game" with ethics experts has bagged nearly 38.5 million views on Twitter so far.
  
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 ICE Halts Force-Feeding of Detained Migrants  The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights had warned that force-feeding hunger strikers could violate the U.N. Convention Against Torture.
  
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 Beto O'Rourke Says Border Barrier Has to Go  "It's cost us tens of billions of dollars to build and to maintain and it has pushed migrants and asylum seekers and refugees to the most inhospitable, the most hostile stretches of the U.S.-Mexico...
  
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 Immigration Advocates Strike Back at Border Deal "This deal represents the 'enforcement-only' status quo that Washington has been stuck in for too long," said United We Dream Deputy Executive Director Greisa Martinez Rosas.
  
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 25 Percent Believe God Wanted Trump to Be President "I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times, and I think he wanted Donald Trump to become president," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a recent...
  
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 'Patriotic Millionaires' Demand Multimillionaires Tax "The taxes we're talking about will not affect people's quality of life," Abigail Disney said.
  
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 Louisiana Police Pictured In Blackface For Operation “Blackface photographs are inappropriate and offensive,” Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy J. Paul Jr. said.
  
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 Senator Denies Comparing Homosexuality To Pedophilia "Senator Hutchings may express her beliefs and views however she wishes, but her behavior is not what we expect of adults in the workplace, and we expect even more from a Wyoming elected official,"...
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez Has Most Viewed Video of Any Politician Ocasio-Cortez used a “Corruption Game” to highlight the need for campaign finance reform.
  
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 43 Mexicans Freed From ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ “It is inconceivable that this was taking place in our community,” said the police chief of Barrie, Ontario.
  
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 Petition Calls on Omar to Be Ousted From Committee "We have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity," Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar said.
  
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 Church Removes Pew Honoring Confederate President "The mission of our parish is diametrically opposed to what these symbols have come to mean,"  St. John's Episcopal Church Pastor Robert C. Wisnewski Jr. said.
  
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 'This Is America' Producer Gives Shoutout to 21 Savage "No matter where you're born or what country you're from, you connect with 'This Is America,'" record producer Ludwig Göransson said.
  
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 California Governor to Pull National Guard From Border  “The border ‘emergency’ is a manufactured crisis,” Governor Gavin Newsom plans to say Tuesday, according to prepared remarks for his State of the Union address.
  
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 'In God We Trust' Plates Funding Anti-LGBT Group "It’s appalling that we’ve already sent over a million dollars to this extremist hate group,” Arizona Democratic State Senator Juan Mendez said.
  
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 DHS to ‘Expedite’ Construction of ‘Secondary’ Wall  The Department of Homeland Security said Border Patrol in the San Diego sector has seen a 69 percent increase in apprehensions this fiscal year to date.
  
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 Ivanka Trump Praises 'Formidable' Nancy Pelosi  "She is a formidable politician," Ivanka Trump said of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "And she has been for a long time."
  
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 Ocasio-Cortez Plays Scathing Campaign Finance 'Game' "In terms of laws that apply to the president...here's almost no laws at all that apply to the president," said Walter Michael Shaub Jr., former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
  
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 Trump Extends Asylum Ban Despite California Injunction "The ban remains illegal and is still blocked by the courts," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project.