The Washington Post editorial board is out with a blistering piece, calling Trump and other Republicans’ attempts to hold Dreamers hostage to their entire nativist immigration agenda “disgraceful.” The editorial board writes: After all of President Trump’s bluster about his “great love” for “dreamers,” brought to this country as children...
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DHS Decision Deadline For 200k Salvadoran TPS Holders 3 Days Please find HERE the ad, entitled: “Protect America by Working With the People of El Salvador. This morning, the Washington Times ran a print ad, sponsored by the American Immigration Council, which argues from a regional security perspective in support of extending TPS for...
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Congressmen Dent, Costello, Fitzpatrick, Thompson, Meehan Support Legislation While Congressman Lloyd Smucker Has Yet To Act Lancaster, PA – Residents of Lancaster are calling on Congress to immediately pass legislation protecting the livelihood of young immigrants who received legal status through the popular DACA program. An estimated 18,000 Pennsylvanians would qualify...
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This week on Fox News, acting ICE Director Thomas Homan took a page out of Donald Trump’s “lock them up” playbook by suggesting that we arrest and jail democratically elected officials of cities and states that are friendly to immigrants. “We’ve got to take them to court and we’ve...
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In a last-minute reprieve, Ohio father Amer “Al Adi” Othman was granted a stay of deportation, keeping him with his family for now and saving him from a removal that was scheduled for this Sunday. The announcement is a victory for Adi; his family; Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), who...
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America’s Voice Frank Sharry Reacts to White House Demand for $33 Billion for Wasteful Border Wall and Unneeded Border Patrol Agents WaPo Editorial Calls Trump’s DACA Gamesmanship “Disgraceful,” While Western MI Dreamer Fears “Losing Everything” Washington Times: Ending Salvadoran TPS Will Not Make America Safer ICYMI: Roundup of Media Coverage...
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Deportation would be “immoral and un-American” Cleveland, OH – Another impending family tragedy in Ohio is just business-as-usual for the Trump Administration’s immigration agency today, as they prepare to deport yet another loving father and caregiver of a disabled American child. The six year-old boy, who became paraplegic last...
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DHS decision expected by Monday A recording of this afternoon’s call is available here. On a press call this afternoon, clergy, impacted immigrants, faith, and labor leaders urged the Department of Homeland Security to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants who would be impacted by the revocation...
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But be wary of the Cornyn Con Austin, TX – Yesterday, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) included a DACA fix in his list of 2018 priorities during a Senate floor speech. While it’s imperative that the Dream Act be passed immediately, one must take Sen. Cornyn’s comments with a grain...
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Frank Sharry: “Is the GOP strategy to pair Dream Act and a reasonable border security package so that it gets done, or to scuttle Dreamer relief by loading up a focused legislative fix with poison pills so that it fails?” Negotiations over the future of Dreamers continue, including a...
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