Immigration advocates, Voces de la Frontera, have been working to prepare for the DAPA decision through their successful “Faces of DAPA and DACA” exhibit and May Day March for Immigrants, Students, and Workers Rights in Milwaukee. In the next couple weeks, they have further plans to hold a community...
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Merger Now Complete: Trump and GOP One and the Same In yet another outrageous and indefensible attack, Donald Trump said yesterday that Judge Curiel, a well-respected federal judge, is unfit to hear Cohen v. Trump, the civil fraud lawsuit against Trump University, simply because of his ethnicity. This latest racist broadside from Trump...
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The Center for New Community has released two important resources in countering the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim movements. The first resource, “Anti-Immigrant And Anti-Muslim Threats In The United States,” is an assessment of organized nativist activity from around the nation, including groups with disturbing ties to white supremacists attempting to...
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Immigrant and refugee advocates won a victory earlier this week after a Texas judge blocked a detention center from being licensed as a “child care” facility. From Esther Lee of ThinkProgress: Judge Karin Crump’s temporary injunction will prevent the 2,400-bed facility in Dilley, Texas from receiving a child care...
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English (en español al final de la página): Think Progress: Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Has Driven Out A Capable Hispanic Republican Leader By Esther Lee Wall Street Journal: Donald Trump Keeps Up Attacks on Judge in Trump University Case By Brent Kendall Washington Post: Trump says judge’s Mexican heritage presents...
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Housekeepers and cooks from around the country have trekked thousands of miles to assist UNITE HERE’s Culinary Union in naturalizing over 1,700 Nevada immigrants. “From March to May, the Union hosted four citizenship fairs in Clark County to assist these new immigrant voters with their applications,” according to a new...
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English (en español al final de la página): New York Times: Hispanic Official to Leave R.N.C. in Sign of Disaffection With Donald Trump By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns Wall Street Journal: RNC Hires Helen Aguirre Ferre for Hispanic Outreach Post By Beth Reinhard Washington Post: Shakeup in RNC’s...
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Tal parece que el más reciente de los rasgos obsesivo-compulsivos en la personalidad de Donald Trump, en relación con México y sus inmigrantes, ha sido el acusar al juez federal Gonzalo Paul Curiel de estar en su contra porque tiene a su cargo el caso de la demanda a...
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The American Federation of Teachers has penned a letter to the Department of Homeland Security urging an end to immigration raids targeting Central American students. “The increased policing and enforcement raids have had a chilling effect on our schools and immigrant communities,” reads the letter from the group, “jeopardizing...
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Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, Tracee Ellis Ross, Guillermo Diaz and Kerry Washington are among the more than 50 actors and activists taking part in the #IAmAnImmigrant campaign in celebration of “Immigrant Heritage Month,” which Welcome.us and others are kicking off today. From Fusion: The #IAmAnImmigrant campaign features portraits...
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