Dec 1, 2016
A University of Michigan student was approached by a stranger who threatened to set her on fire with a lighter if she didn’t remove her hijab, police said. The incident occurred between 5:30 and 7 p.m. on Friday just outside the campus in Ann Arbor. Police said the woman...
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A Latina woman working as a nanny in SF’s Marina district was physically and verbally attacked Monday in a hate crime at Fort Mason’s Great Meadow. As CBS 5 reports, the incident happened while the woman was looking after two small children, and a man dressed all in black...
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A 56-year-old Patterson man who told two employees of a local grocery store that he “wants to shoot all Spanish-speaking people” is in custody, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday. Police say two employees of Putnam Lake Market on Fairfield Drive were talking to each other in...
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Sen. Dick Durbin continued lifting up the stories of DACA recipients, this morning sharing the successes of Asael Reyes from Chicago, Illinois. When Asael was in high school when he found out he was undocumented. Devastated, he felt he “had no future” and he dropped out of school after...
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English (en español al final de la página): News4Jax (Florida): Undocumented immigrant tuition issue re-emerges By Brandon Larrebee Politico: Graham preparing ‘Dreamers’ bill By Seung Min Kim The Hill: Graham to roll out extension of Obama immigration program By Jordain Carney Washington Post: Catholic college leaders pledge solidarity with...
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DREAMers shared their DACA stories in a hugely successful social media campaign that trended nationally on Twitter throughout the day. #SaveDACA, kicked off by Sen. Dick Durbin and Senate Democrats, encouraged DACA recipients to share their personal stories and why DACA is so vital to their futures. Elected officials, community leaders...
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Earlier this week, Sen. Dick Durbin spoke on the Senate floor about Father Rey Piñeda, a DACA recipient and Catholic priest. Like Father Piñeda, the futures of Yuri and Valentina depend on the future of DACA, which could be undone on Day One of a Donald Trump Presidency. Earlier today, Sen. Durbin shared Yuri...
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English (en español al final de la página): WRAL: Could Obama’s efforts to help ‘Dreamers’ be used to hurt them? By Eric Schulzke CNN: Immigration attorneys’ fears grow over uncertain DACA future By Dominique Debucquoy-Dodley Al Jazeera: Undocumented immigrants face deportation under Trump Associated Press: San Francisco officials seek...
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Columbia University is now among the universities and colleges pledging to adopt measures that would protect undocumented students during Donald Trump’s Presidency. From The Hill: Provost John Coatsworth said in an email sent to students and teachers Monday that the university would not let immigration officials onto its campus...
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum condemned the pro-Donald Trump gathering of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Washington D.C. over this past weekend. Film of the event, organized by the white supremacist group National Policy Institute, featured group leader Richard Spencer reciting Nazi propaganda in its original German, as...
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