The Sessions speech at the border and the leaked DHS plan make it clear: the nativists are going for broke With his speech at the southwestern border this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it painfully clear that he is seeking to use the full power of the Department of Justice to go...
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According to an internal Department of Homeland Security assessment obtained by the Washington Post, Donald Trump is assembling his immigration enforcement infrastructure – and it sure looks like a mass deportation force. The assessment found 33,000 detention beds where future detainees could be held, looked into ending polygraph and...
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ENGLISH CNN Hard-line anti-illegal immigration advocates hired at 2 federal agencies By Maria Santana April 12, 2017 Mother Jones Jeff Sessions Announces a New Crackdown on Immigrants and “Filth” By Bryan Schatz April 11, 2017 Washington Times Trump’s Justice Department to end ‘catch and release’ immigration policy By Andrea...
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Apr 12, 2017
National and local Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups are calling for Milwaukee police to investigate as a hate crime an attack on a Muslim woman who says a man demanded she remove her hijab and beat her. “You can’t get a clearer hate crime than this,” said Janan Najeeb, president...
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Prosecutors say an Auburn man became enraged when he found out a neighbor was from Mexico, threatening to blow her up and chasing her around her yard with a knife. The Seattle Times reports Travis Senner threatened to blow up his neighbor and chased her around her yard with...
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Today, nearly 1,500 economists sent a letter to Donald Trump and top Congressional leaders highlighting how immigrants contribute to the economy and urging Congress to pass immigration reform. Economists: immigrants contribute to the economy As the letter said: Immigration is one of America’s significant competitive advantages in the global economy....
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Deporting Mothers and Other Long-Settled Immigrants Is a Stain on Our Nation, Exposes Cruelty of Trump-Sessions-Kelly Mass Deportation Plan Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to the southwestern border yesterday to deliver two speeches that, once again,scapegoated immigrants as criminals and used that portrayal to try and justify sweeping new measures...
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In a new piece for CNN, Maria Santana highlights the growing role designated hate groups, notably Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), in the Trump administration — which has hired at least two hate group leaders.. Santana’s piece comes after the Department of...
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited the US-Mexico border yesterday, where he spoke of Trump’s efforts to crack down on immigration violations and talked about border crossers in biblically apocalyptic terms. “It is here that criminal aliens and the coyotes and the document-forgers seek to overthrow our system of lawful...
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***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Thursday, April 13 3PM EST / 12PM PDT DIAL IN: 1-800-894-5910; PASSCODE: ‘IMMIGRATION’ PRESS CALL: Domestic Violence Survivors, Prosecutors, and Advocates to Speak Out Against Trump Administration’s Targeting of Victims and Witnesses Washington, DC — Last week, DHS spokesperson David Lapan defended enforcement actions against immigrants who...
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