In an attempt to covertly lower the standards of immigrant detention facilities, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has once again proven that inside the walls of its detention centers, conditions and management of its facilities are unbound by the laws. In an exposé, the Texas Observer identified the watered-down...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: Texas Observer “ICE Quietly Lowers (Already Low) Standards at Some Immigrant Detention Facilities” English Associated Press Mexico Begins Flying, Busing Migrants Back to Honduras January 21, 2020 Reuters Mexico Halts Migrant Caravan, Deports Hundreds to Honduras By Lizbeth Diaz, Julia Love, Abraham Gonzalez, and Anthony Esposito...
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On January 17, 2020 the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it will extend, but not redesignate, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for an additional 18 months for 500 Somali nationals currently living in the U.S. The extension will exclude as many as 1,000 Somalis fleeing dangerous country conditions and...
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“Wittingly or not, and their departments have been co-opted into a campaign to extradite an innocent man to almost certain death, in order to make a racist talking point appear to be slightly less of a fiction.” A disturbing New Yorker article highlights how the Trump Administration...
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Will He Install Plaques for Each Private House and Land He Seizes on the Border? As we keep noting, Trump is singularly obsessed with the border wall and its political symbolism and is advancing a dizzying array of risky schemes to claim his own version of ‘mission accomplished’ no...
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America’s Voice Extending & Not Redesignating TPS for Somalia Offers Brief Reprieve for Some While Abandoning Others ICYMI: New Yorker on “Fight to Save an Innocent Refugee from Almost Certain Death” Trump Installs Self-Congratulatory Plaque Commemorating 100 Miles of Border Wall Construction English The New York Times Mexico Blocks...
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First published June 13, 2019; last updated January 16, 2020 The 2020 Democratic primary has in general not been marked by major policy differences, and immigration is no exception. On immigration, the candidates’ plans are in near-consensus, with differences found only in degree and emphasis. Each plan recognizes the...
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Today, a delegation of House Democrats crossed the border near Brownsville, Texas to bring attention to the terrible Trump Administration policy called “Remain in Mexico.” Remain in Mexico, also known as MPP, was implemented a year ago and has forced some 60,000 asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while...
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For the Second Time This Week, Trump Administration Tees Up Another Raid of Military Funds for Border Wall Obsession Yesterday, the Trump administration’s DHS sent a request to the Pentagon to build approximately 270 miles of border barriers under existing counter-drug authority. But due to the relatively small amount...
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America’s Voice PHOTOS: House Democrats at the Border Draw Attention to Remain in Mexico “Another Day, Another Trump Scheme to Rob Military Budgets” English The New York Times (Op-ed) I’m a Liberal Who Thinks Immigration Must Be Restricted By Jerry Kammer January 16, 2020 El Semanario Between Hurricanes And...
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