A growing number of states, cities, colleges, and faith communities are pledging to defend immigrant residents of their communities and rising up to say ‘no’ to Donald Trump’s deportation agenda. The strength, focus and breadth of this growing resistance promises to be an important bulwark for the effort to...
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A Muslim off-duty NYPD officer, hailed by the mayor as a hero, and her 16-year-old son became the city’s latest hate crime victims Saturday when a bigot in Brooklyn yelled at them to “go back to your country,” police sources said. Officer Aml Elsokary, who was off duty and...
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English (en español al final de la página): New Yorker (Op-Ed): Now Is The Time To Talk About What We’re Actually Talking About By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Teen Vogue: Senator Greg Steube Proposes Bill to Revoke In-State Tuition Rates to Undocumented Students By Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy Generocity: How food and conversation...
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Dec 2, 2016
A trio of Bangor City Council members is denouncing what they say was a hate crime against a black man in downtown Bangor Friday night. Police charged Joshua Pendergast, 42, of Bangor with misdemeanor assault late Monday. Bangor City Council Chair Joe Baldacci, writing Sunday on his Facebook page,...
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California’s two public universities have vowed to protect undocumented students and not assist in federal deportation efforts. The effort is a part of a national movement of students and their allies mobilizing to create areas of refuge for undocumented students on college and university campuses. More from the Washington...
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Nationwide, students and their allies have been mobilizing to make their college and university campuses safe for undocumented and DACAmented students, following the election of Donald Trump. But in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened to financially starve any college and university that tries to join their effort. “Texas will...
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With less than 50 days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, there is burgeoning support for DREAMers and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program across the nation. Last week, Global Strategy Group released a new poll showing that by more than a 2:1 margin, 58%-28%, Americans oppose an effort to repeal the...
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New Americans Museum staff isn’t backing down after finding two anti-immigrant messages scrawled near the entrance over this weekend. Patrons found the messages Saturday morning on both walls of the entrance to the museum in Liberty Station. One message read, “Too much immigration! Go back to your country. This...
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Local leaders: Our police force is not a tool to be militarized by federal government. Cleveland will not become breeding ground for hatred and fear In an interview with WKYC, Mayor Frank Jackson declared that the City of Cleveland will not help the President-elect carry out his pledge of mass deportation. Jackson said: “We...
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Analysis of State Voting Data Continues to Show Strong Latino Support for Clinton, Contrary to National Exit Polls In a new Washington Post piece, Francisco Pedraza and Bryan Wilcox-Archuleta challenge the national exit poll claim that 29% of Hispanic voters nationally, and 34% in Texas, supported Donald Trump. Analyzing data from 4,372 precincts...
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