“Racial incitement is the animating electoral strategy of a sitting President and his party.” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: The beating heart of Trumpism is and has always been racism and xenophobia. Now, Trump is turbocharging it in his desperate...
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In a new must-read explainer, Washington Post’s Philip Bump reveals that many of the undocumented immigrants targeted by this weekend’s raids may be deported without having received due process, despite claims from the Trump administration that they have. Bump cites a recent report from Syracuse University’s TRAC program, “which...
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According to the New York Times, “Nationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday…The officials said ICE agents were targeting at least 2,000 immigrants who have been ordered deported — some as a result of their failure to appear in court…The...
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A Bill to Safeguard Migrant Families Today, on the heels of Yazmin Juárez’s courageous, heartbreaking testimony in Congress about the death of her almost two year old daughter shortly after being released from ICE custody, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and other Senate Democrats...
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Nowhere are the cruel and deplorable actions of the Trump administration more outstanding than in the abhorrent conditions of immigration detention facilities holding children and families. Yesterday, in a powerful House Oversight Committee hearing, Yazmin Juárez bravely gave a heartbreaking testimony of the death of her one year old...
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Having Created Mass Failure at the Border, Now He Wants to Add to the Chaos The New York Times and others are reporting that neighborhood immigration raids will begin Sunday. Trump threatened to launch massive immigration raids in the U.S. after July 4 and now in cities across America,...
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Culture of Cruelty Starts at the Top Every day brings more examples of the culture of impunity and dehumanizing cruelty that defines CBP (Customs and Border Protection) and our entire immigration enforcement system. President Trump, who has called the reports about horrific conditions for migrants, asylum-seekers and children in...
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Congress Begins Hearings on the Facts, Not the Falsehoods Amid a new NBC News report of children being sexually assaulted and retaliated against by border officials in immigration detention, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee will hold a hearing today...
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Mexico Shares the Shame with US We are in the midst of a full-blown human rights crisis created and worsened by the Trump administration’s actions and neglect. Take just one of the many cruel policies enacted – the “Remain in Mexico” or “Migrant Protection Protocols” policy, which returns asylum...
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Trump Hypocrisy on Full Display Last week, former undocumented employees of various Trump businesses who bravely came forward about the hypocrisy of Trump and his administration, penned a letter to request a meeting with the President to discuss immigration reform. In response, President Trump continues to deny any knowledge...
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