By Linda Blackford | Editor
Happy Monday. Even in a red state, folks can admit when Trump policies aren’t really helping. That’s definitely true in the case of cattle farmers, one of Kentucky’s biggest agricultural economies. State leaders are trying to figure out how to help.
Contributor Debbie Yetter has a really heartrending story of a young immigrant and her baby who is due to be deported back to Guatemala.
We also have a national story on the changing ideas around divorce law.
Thanks for reading!
By McKenna Horsley
While Kentucky cattle farmers are facing challenges like a loss of farmland and a move from the Trump administration to import more foreign beef, agriculture leaders are trying to boost the policies that will help them.
A one-year-old child will be reunited with her mother before they are both deported. (Stock photo by Greenleaf123/Getty Images)
By Deborah Yetter
A judge has rejected an emergency effort to block the reunification of a one-year-old girl in foster care with her birth mother who is scheduled to be deported to Guatemala and currently is in custody of U.S. Immigration and Enforcement.
Missouri Republican state Rep. Cecelie Williams, flanked by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe and Democratic state Rep. Raychel Proudie, speaks in April about legislation that clarifies the right to divorce while pregnant. In recent decades, most of the states that have tweaked their divorce laws have made it easier, not harder, to get one. But that may be changing. (Photo by Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent)
By Anna Claire Vollers
In recent years, more conservatives have turned to divorce as a “family values” talking point, with some pushing to make it harder for couples to divorce. By doing so, they’ve relaunched a national conversation that would have been nearly unthinkable just a few years ago.
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