Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan has been nominated by President Trump to be the new official head of ICE. ICE hasn’t had an official director since former chief Sarah Saldaña left at the end of the Obama Administration, but that doesn’t mean the ICE job should...
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What is Sen. Portman doing to get legislation passed this year? Cleveland, OH – Today, the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association joined the National Association of Manufacturers and over two dozen other business groups in a letter to lawmakers urging Congress to pass legislation to protect Dreamers “well before the administration’s March deadline.”...
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Felipe Abonza-Lopez the latest example of how Trump Administration is targeting young immigrants despite assurances from Trump; latest reminder why Congress must pass Dream Act this year In the latest outrageous example of the Trump Administration targetingDACA recipients and other young immigrants, HuffPost’s Elise Foley highlights that 20-year old Felipe Abonza-Lopez has...
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Mientras entramos en un etapa crucial para el futuro de los Dreamers, sectores republicanos parecen entender que no tomar acciones para ofrecer a estos jóvenes un camino a la ciudadanía, particularmente tras la revocación de DACA, podría incidir en su futuro político. La semana pasada un grupo de congresistas...
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America’s Voice Outrage: Texas Dreamer with Active DACA Status in Detention for a Month Thomas Homan Supports Mass Deportation, Shouldn’t Be Next Director of ICE Four Senators Vote No on Nielsen Confirmation, Question Lack of Independence From White House After Political Interference On Immigration Decision Ohio Manufacturers’ Association Joins...
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Questions Raised After WH Chief of Staff John Kelly Attempted to Strong Arm Acting DHS Secretary Duke in the DHS Decision on Honduran TPS Tomorrow, members of the Senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs are scheduled to vote on the confirmation of Kirstjen Nielsen, the Trump Administration’s...
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122 Dreamers are losing DACA every day In the New York Times, the Liz Robbins story, “Post Office Fails to Deliver on Time, and DACA Applications Get Rejected” highlights how some of the 22,000 DACA recipients who missed the artificial October 5th re-application deadline and are now losing protections were victims of the government’s...
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America’s Voice Time Has Run Out For Many Dreamers; Thousands More in Jeopardy Right Now TOMORROW: Confirmation Vote on Nielsen Despite Senators’ Serious Concerns About Her Independence From White House English New York Times Post Office Fails to Deliver on Time, and DACA Applications Get Rejected By Liz Robbins...
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Between September 5 and October 5 of this year, more than a hundred thousand Dreamers scrambled to renew their DACA applications for the last time, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that Donald Trump was killing the program. It was a rushed, arbitrary, and unfair deadline that left 22,000...
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Study: SB4 will damage Texas economy by driving immigrants out of the state Austin, TX – A study by AngelouEconomics found that Texas Senate Bill 4, a discriminatory bill signed into law earlier this year, “will jeopardize Texas’ economic prosperity and the quality of life of its citizens”. The...
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