11/6/17 Decision deadline for 59,550 Hondurans and Nicaraguans: 18 DAYS 11/23/17 Decision deadline for 50,000 Haitians:35 DAYS 01/08/18 Decision deadline for 195,000 Salvadorans: 81 DAYS The Catholic News Service reports that the Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration, Bishop Joe Vasquez, is urging Americans to advocate for an extension of Temporary Protected Status...
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This week, Center for American Progress and USC Dornsife: Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration released a new interactive map, broken down by congressional district, estimating the number of people who would have been eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, the number of DACA-recipients, and the human...
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Immigrants and advocates won big in Virginia and elsewhere this election cycle. Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie lost by a huge margin after running a toxic, xenophobic, race-baiting campaign. So did Republicans running for the House of Delegates who thought they could get elected by attacking Democrats for...
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Decision Deadline for Hondurans: 18 Days Away Decision Deadline for Salvadorans: 81 Days Away Letter Notes That TPS Recipients: Contribute $648 million/year to Social Security & Medicare Essential To Harvey, Irma Reconstruction Efforts Pay taxes, register with DHS Home countries in dire straits, cannot receive recipients Led by Senators Ben Cardin...
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774 Institutions Across USA Ask House and Senate to Keep Our Doors Open to Dreamers “Who Seek to Contribute their Best to America” Cleveland, OH – Twenty-two Ohio colleges and universities have joined nearly 800 others across the United States to ask Congress to “pass a long-term legislative fix as soon...
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The government of Haiti has written to the Trump Administration to formally request an 18-month extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for thousands of Haitians living in the United States. The request, reported in the Miami Herald, was signed by Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States and delivered to the...
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El llamado “plazo” del 5 de marzo no es tal; es una excusa para la inacción Ayer, el senador Dick Durbin (D-IL) declaró a NBC News: “No tengo planeado irme de Washington a casa de vacaciones hasta que nos hagamos cargo de DACA y de los Dreamers. Hemos hecho la promesa...
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For the anti-immigrant hardliners in the Trump Administration, like Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions, DACA posed something of a problem. They had ridden the Trump train specifically to curb immigration and end programs like DACA, but Donald Trump had also claimed to have sympathy for Dreamers and said he...
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Southwest Ranches, FL – This week, Florida State Representative Evan Jenne joined Florida immigrant youth to discuss how the repeal of DACA will affect immigrant youth and their families and to commit to pushing policies locally and nationally to protect the 800,000 Dreamers from deportation. Florida State Representative Evan Jenne said: I...
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The so-called March 5th “deadline” is not; it’s an excuse for inaction Yesterday, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) told NBC News, “I am not planning on going home from Washington for any holiday until we take care of the DACA and Dreamer issue. We have made our promise to do that.” Senator Durbin...
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