From the Associated Press this week comes an article from Amy Taxin, who writes that ICE is tracking nearly 970,000 immigrants with prior deportation orders. Eighty-two percent have no criminal record, and ICE wouldn’t say what proportion are being deported. The 970,000 number is a subset of the 2.3...
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America’s Voice AILA Praised for Standing Up for its Values and Moving Annual Immigration Conference from Texas Due to SB4 America’s Voice Education Fund Responds to House Passage of HR 2213 Ohio Republican Members of Congress, 2 Democrats Voted for More Corruption – Not More Accountability – At Customs...
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Secretary John Kelly, in his short tenure as chief of the Department of Homeland Security, has said a lot of misinformed things about immigration and deportation. He’s repeatedly claimed that his agents only focus on deporting immigrants who have committed crimes, a statement which unfortunately is proven untrue every...
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America’s Voice In House Vote Today, Will Democrats Be Complicit in Advancing Trump’s Extreme Immigration Agenda? Columbus City Council’s Ordinance Protecting Immigrants Is A Strong Step In The Right Direction Ahead of Hearing Thursday, DREAMer Arbitrarily Targeted by Trump Administration, Rep. Gutiérrez, Legal and Immigration Experts Discuss the Fight...
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Every day, Donald Trump’s mass deportation crackdown continues. Trump’s Deportation Force has been relentless in detaining and deporting all undocumented immigrants, whether that’s a grandmother who has lived in the US for a quarter of a century or a man married to a US citizen who is trying to...
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***Media Advisory*** Wednesday, June 7 1pm EST DIAL IN: 785-424-1675; PASSCODE: DACA PRESS CALL: Jessica Colotl, DREAMer Whose DACA was Revoked Arbitrarily by Trump Administration, Joins Rep. Gutiérrez, Legal and Immigration Experts to Discuss Her Story and DACA Under Trump Washington, DC – Tomorrow, June 7 at 1pm EST,...
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America’s Voice CBP’s Own Internal Documents Show Why Congress Should Vote “No” on HR2213 From Hawaii to Cincinnati to Florida, ICE is Deporting Immigrants Who Shouldn’t Be Priorities Across Country, ICE is Overseeing Mass Deportation of Immigrants Who Shouldn’t Be Priorities Top News New York Times Trump Grows Discontented...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: David Leopold: “No Secretary Kelly, The Immigration Law Does Not Deport People, You Do” ICYMI: Houston Chronicle: “Out of Time: For a Houston Family, ICE crackdown shatters the good life they knew” ICYMI: The New Yorker: “Why Police Chiefs Oppose Texas’s New Anti-Immigrant Law” 273 Organizations...
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San Antonio and Austin sue Texas over SB 4 This week in Texas, San Antonio and Austin sued the state over the anti-immigrant and discriminatory “show me your papers” law, SB 4 . The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) formally filed the lawsuit on behalf of San...
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Top News Huffington Post Democrats Have Buyer’s Remorse About Trump’s Homeland Security Chief By Elise Foley May 31, 2017 Associated Press Homeland Security Chief Signals Shift on Immigration Program June 01, 2017 Texas Observer Attorney: Matt Rinaldi’s Call to ICE Will Likely Be Used Against SB 4 in Lawsuit...
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