The lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants and their families continue to hang in the balance, following another decision against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program by an anti-immigrant court in Texas. Will Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) stand up to his extremist colleagues in order...
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Nearly 7,000 eligible immigrants will be naturalized as U.S. citizens as part of this year’s Citizenship Day and Constitution Day, which were marked this past Sunday. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plans to naturalize more than 6,900 eligible immigrants in over 130 ceremonies that began earlier this month....
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A notoriously anti-immigrant judge in Texas has yet again ruled against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, rejecting a 2022 rule from the Biden administration that intended to preserve and fortify the program. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, a jurist handpicked to hear this case by impeached...
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Nearly three dozen mayors and county executives from the Cities for Action coalition have added their voices to the call urging the Biden administration to designate or redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 11 countries, writing in a letter that the designations will both protect immigrants already here from...
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Immigrants and allies rallied outside the White House on Wednesday to urge the Biden administration to expand protections for Cameroonian immigrants currently in the United States. The rally, led by the Cameroon Advocacy Network and local Cameroonian community, urged officials to extend and redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for...
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A federal judge in Austin ruled this week that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott must remove his dangerous and inhumane floating saw blade barrier from the Rio Grande, “concluding that it was an impediment to navigation on the river and a ‘threat to human life,’” The New York Times reports....
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The headline from The Wall Street Journal says it all: “Texas ‘floating border wall’ fails to deter migrants.” The article details how the floating saw blades illegally installed in the Rio Grande as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s multi-billion dollar Operation Lone Star scheme have failed to block desperate...
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Labor Day is an annual observation won by labor activists who “pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions workers have made to America’s strength, prosperity, and well-being,” the U.S. Department of Labor said. According to new polling, labor unions enjoy strong support from the American people...
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Ahead of Labor Day, United Farm Workers (UFW) and allies are set to form a mile-long, “human billboard” line in support of mushroom workers in Washington state. While a majority of workers at the Sunnyside-based Windmill Farms voted to unionize, the owners have refused to recognize the union –...
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CNN this week published a story that feeds right into the anti-immigrant narrative of the far-right, approaching the same xenophobic Bill Melugin/FOX News-like clickbait that we see on other channels. Specifically, the CNN story proclaimed that “mugglers with ties to ISIS helped migrants enter the U.S., raising alarm bells...
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