Today, 276 immigrant rights, civil and human rights, faith-based, environmental, labor and women’s organizations called upon Congress to defund Trump’s mass deportation agenda, instead of giving him more agents and tools to carry out mass deportation of long-settled immigrants. Given the lack of prioritization and extreme consequences of Trump’s...
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O el secretario de Seguridad Nacional, John Kelly, está deliberadamente engañando al pueblo estadounidense, o bien él ha sido el timado. El exgeneral de Infantería de Marina y capitán del Comando Sur de Estados Unidos ha permitido él mismo convertirse en el “sí, señor” de Donald Trump, llevando a...
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One week ago, more than one thousand people descended on the Texas Capitol to stand against the state’s anti-immigrant “show me your papers” law, SB4, which will allow for racial discrimination against people of color across the state. In a new piece for The New Yorker, Jonathan Blitzer reviews...
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The Trump Administration’s DHS is focused on deporting any immigrant and every immigrant they can find – choosing “easy targets” such as those attending government check-ins who have no criminal records. In a powerful and heartbreaking piece published this weekend, the Houston Chronicle tells one local family’s heartbreaking story...
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Later this week, DHS Secretary John Kelly will again testify on Capitol Hill in support of the Trump Administration’s request for billions of dollars to deport millions of immigrants. We expect Secretary Kelly to again defend his agents’ abuses and repeat the bogus claim that his deportation force is...
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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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While Gov. Abbott Expands His Lawsuit Against Civil Rights Organizations Standing Up to SB4, the City of Austin Joins the Fight Against the State’s “Show Me Your Papers” Bill Austin, TX – Late last night, and while challenges continue to mount for the “Show Me Your Papers” bill, it...
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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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En los últimos meses hemos estado denunciando los costos y las consecuencias de la agenda de deportación masiva del gobierno de Trump. La peor expresión de esta estrategia a nivel estatal es la recientemente proclamada ley SB4 en Texas, que alienta la discriminación y amenaza con encarcelar a policías...
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In recent months, we have been decrying the costs and consequences of the mass deportation agenda of the Trump Administration. The worst expression of this strategy at the state level is the recently-enacted SB4 in Texas, a law the encourages racial profiling and threatens local law enforcement with jail...
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