El gobernador republicano de Florida, Ron DeSantis, está impulsando un paquete de medidas crueles que se enfocan en las comunidades inmigrantes en todo el estado, que incluye una cláusula que obligaría a las salas de emergencia a recabar el estatus migratorio de los pacientes. Pero esto no lo está haciendo...
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Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing forward a package of cruel measures that put a target on the backs of immigrant communities all over the state, including one provision that would force emergency rooms to collect the immigration status of patients. But he’s not doing this alone. DeSantis’...
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Meanwhile, Kobach is Stonewalling any Comment on His Legal Vulnerability Two associates of Republican Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors who had contributed to their cockamamie “We Build The Wall” project, a $25 million...
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A host of leading voices are urging the Biden administration to protect our immigrant neighbors by redesignating a number of Central American nations for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a humanitarian tool that allows individuals to continue living and working in the U.S. when conditions in their home countries make...
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The Biden administration this week officially released its proposed rule expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) eligibility to include current Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. The decision makes public health policy sense, because a healthier community means a healthier nation. It also acknowledges what we all know...
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This month marks ten years since the introduction of the “Gang of Eight’s” comprehensive immigration reform bill. In June of 2013, the U.S. Senate passed that historic bill by a strong bipartisan majority, with 14 Republicans joining all Democrats. The bill, S. 744, would have put millions of undocumented...
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Republicans in Congress do have an immigration plan — but it’s not designed to address the issues of providing a safe process at the border or our immigrant neighbors. No, it’s a political agenda. And, their plan is to nationalize the anti-immigrant hostilities being leveled at local communities by...
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz has been among the loudest — and worst — of anti-immigrant demagogues. He’s more than suggested the Biden administration is to blame for smuggling incidents, just this month tweeting that “he cartel human trafficking business is exploding.” Further inflammatory remarks have been false claims that...
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This month marks one year since Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott launched a costly and inhumane stunt busing what would eventually number thousands of newly-arrived migrants processed and released by U.S. immigration officials. Abbott initially targeted Washington, D.C., then expanded his cruelty to Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia and...
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Immigrant, racial justice, and LGBTQ advocates in Florida are warning people to stay away from the state due to the onslaught of hateful laws and proposals pushed by Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled state legislature, harkening back to similar warnings issued in the wake of Arizona’s notorious “papers,...
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