This week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to unveil new priorities for federal prosecutors' enforcement of immigration law, including aggressive prosecution against immigrants for unauthorized reentry into the United States. He has also reversed the Obama Justice Department's move away from private prisons, backed away from oversight of police departments, and promised to ramp up the failed war on drugs.

Here's what we're reading to learn more.

On Thursday night, President Trump fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Al Shayrat airfield near the city of Homs in Syria. Here's what we're reading to learn more.

U.S. launches cruise missiles on Syrian airbase, via Al Jazeera

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For years, we've known that to build popular movements that can prevail, we need to recognize interrelated causes of injustice, war, and environmental degradation. From the Black Lives Matter manifesto to the Women's March in January to the upcoming People's Climate March, people are catching on.

'Galling': US Lifts Human Rights Restrictions on Arms Sales to Bahrain, by Nadia Prupis via Common Dreams

The proposed 2018 budget was released last week. It includes a dramatic increase in funding for the military, and sweeping cuts to social services. Here’s what we’re reading to learn more:

Trump Budget Shows How Much Black People Have to Lose, by Shanelle Matthews via ColorLines