Donald Trump nominated former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott for the new commissioner of the parent agency Customs and Border Protection (CBP), seeking the return of one of the most ardent defenders of the border policies from his first administration. Scott, a career official who was promoted by the...
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Donald Trump and his incoming team have confirmed they’re moving forward with costly and “bloody” mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants as their signature policy of the second term. They are also getting the green light from the Republican-controlled Congress, as Sen. Lindsey Graham put it in a...
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Donald Trump’s mass deportation team has been taking shape, and it is alarming, as expected. Trump has announced that he has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, joining noted white nationalist Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Thomas Homan to...
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Throughout the past week, families and friends gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving, express gratitude, and share delicious dishes. For some of our immigrant neighbors, this was their first time celebrating this uniquely American tradition that has refugee origins of its own. In Philadelphia, 17-year-old Carmen Hernandez was among neighbors celebrating...
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The incoming Trump administration and their allies in Congress have promised to make unsparing mass deportations their top priority, including a return to devastating workplace raids. Unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine the downstream consequences but look to workplace raids from the last time Trump was in power. The...
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A number of Democratic governors and local leaders from coast to coast are beginning to take action to resist Donald Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda and protect undocumented families in their communities and states, including by strengthening safer city ordinances, preventing the use of local resources in mass raids...
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Donald Trump has announced that Thomas Homan, a Project 2025 contributor and former acting ICE director under his first administration, will be returning to his second term as a “border czar” to carry out the ”bloody” mass deportation agenda that was the signature promise of his 2024 presidential campaign...
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At the Trump campaign’s racist and authoritarian rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, speakers vetted by the campaign unleashed a torrent of rabidly xenophobic remarks, including an unhinged statement calling Puerto Rico, home to more than three million of our fellow Americans and an ancestral home to millions...
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Tucked into the immigration priorities of the Heritage Foundation’s radical Project 2025 plan is a provision that, despite its two-sentence brevity, would have devastating consequences by allowing Stephen Miller’s red state deportation army to invade the most personal and sacred of spaces to carry out mass family separation. Under...
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Trump has refused to rule out reinstating the ‘zero tolerance’ policy that ripped 5,500 weeping children from the arms of parents. More than 1,000 remain separated to this very day The Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018 that resulted in the deliberate separation of 5,500 wailing and traumatized children,...
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