Ahead of FAIR’s ‘Hold Their Feet To The Fire’ event intended to encourage President Trump to deliver on his anti-immigrant and mass deportation promises, experts reviewed the longstanding ties between anti-immigrant hate groups and white nationalists and analyze the ties between those groups and the Trump administration. A recording...
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A recording of today’s event is available here. Ahead of next week’s 5-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Jessica Colotl, a leader in the fight for DACA who is vulnerable to deportation, joined Representative Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL), legal experts, and immigration advocates to...
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In English here. El 25 de enero de 2017 el presidente Trump dio a conocer una Orden Ejecutiva, “Mejorando la Seguridad Pública al interior de los Estados Unidos”, que potencialmente convierte a cada inmigrante indocumentado en una prioridad de deportación. Al diezmar la política de la era Obama que...
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In English here. La elección de Donald Trump ha reavivado el debate sobre las Ciudades Santuario para los DREAMers y otros inmigrantes indocumentados. Desde que anunció su candidatura en junio de 2015, el presidente electo ha despotricado contra las Ciudades Santuario y falsamente las ha retratado como perversas zonas...
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On Monday night, millions of Americans tuned in to watch Secretary of State Hillary Clinton face off against Donald Trump in the first of three general election presidential debates. A number of Florida voters watched the debate at parties organized across the state and their reactions provide an insight...
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Sep 7, 2016
The Republican candidate for president called for “ideological certification.” American values? I don’t think so. This election is one for the history books. The two candidates are strikingly different in their views on virtually everything, but especially on foreign policy and immigration issues. Without immigration, the U.S. population would...
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Crossposted from David Leopold’s post on Medium. After Donald Trump met with his Hispanic Advisory Council on August 20, the media tied itself in knots over whether he had “softened” on his insistence that all 11 million undocumented immigrants be deported, a central pillar of his campaign. Then in a Fox News Channel town...
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Por David Leopold. En inglés aquí. Algo está ocurriendo en Texas y es una amenaza a la justicia —que está siendo perpetrada por un Juez Federal de Corte de Distrito. A principios de este mes el juez Andrew Hanen, que preside el ataque del Partido Republicano a las acciones...
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May 11, 2016
By David Leopold. Crossposted from Medium. Available in Spanish here. Last week, Donald Trump’s Cinco de Mayo tweet topped the headlines. This tweet is the latest in a longstanding series of insulting, offensive, andderogatory tweets from the GOP presidential front runner. What makes Trump’s Twitter conduct so utterly disturbing, and fascinating for the media,...
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Crossposted from David Leopold’s post on Medium. There has been a lot of speculation about what will happen if the Supreme Court is deadlocked in United States v. Texas, the dispute over DAPA and DACA+, President Obama’s immigration executive actions. The bottom line, as I’ve noted before, is that a 4–4...
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