As advocates applaud a judge’s ruling that holding women and children in detention violates a 1997 court decision, a social worker will today testify about the “deplorable” conditions she witnessed while working at the Karnes detention facility in Texas. From Esther Lee of ThinkProgress: At a Judiciary Democrats’ Forum...
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A federal judge’s decision last Friday that detaining mothers and children violates a 1997 court settlement is already having a “groundbreaking” effect, said the Huffington Post earlier today. Citing the 1997 Flores Agreement, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled last week that hundreds of families currently held in detention...
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English (en español al final de la página): NBC News: Jeb Bush Says He Was Hurt by Trump Remarks About Mexicans By Andrew Rafferty Time: Donald Trump Is Not as Aggressive on Immigration As He Sounds By Tessa Berenson Vox: Donald Trump is more moderate than many Republican voters...
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Citing a 1997 court settlement on the detention of children, late last week U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that hundreds of mothers and children currently held in family detention facilities must be released by the federal government. From the AP: “The decision Friday by U.S. District Judge Dolly...
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Looks like Sheriff Joe messed with the wrong one, again. Following a court order from U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow on Friday, a team of six U.S. Marshals raided the downtown Phoenix office of embattled Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. According to reports, U.S. Marshals seized hundreds of...
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English (en español al final de la página): Los Angeles Times (Op-Ed): GOP and Latinos: On immigration, history shows the way By Joe Trippi The Toledo Blade (Ohio): Group says Ohio will be at forefront of debate By Lauren Lindstrom Politico : Poll: Anger at Washington fuels Trump’s rise...
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English (en español al final de la página): Washington Post: Donald Trump makes a Texas-size splash with visit to Mexican border By James Hohmann Washington Post: How Univision and Telemundo covered Donald Trump’s visit to the border By Ed O’Keefe Los Angeles Times: Donald Trump’s comments offend many U.S....
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In our third Dignity Days event yesterday, leaders from New York, Florida, and Connecticut joined our broadcast to discuss the fight for municipal ID cards and the effect victories from those fights have had on immigrant communities around the nation. As Juan Escalante previously noted, “over the years we...
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In a statement earlier today, the Obama Administration threatened to veto House Resolution 3009, anti-immigrant legislation also known as the Donald Trump Act. “This bill fails to offer comprehensive reforms needed to fix the Nation’s broken immigration laws, undermines current Administration efforts to remove the most dangerous convicted criminals...
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English (en español al final de la página): AP: Trump’s Border Trip Comes as GOP Tries to Woo Hispanics Wall Street Journal: Donald Trump to Tour U.S.-Mexico Border to Draw Attention to Illegal Immigration By Rebecca Ballhaus Politico: Donald Trump heading to the border By Nick Gass ABCNews: Donald...
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