In the latest episode of our podcast “A is for America”, we spoke with Natalia Alonso and her mom, Monica, two local heroes who leapt into action after the devastating June 5 workplace raids on Corso’s Flower and Garden stores in Sandusky and Castalia, Ohio. After the raid took away...
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America’s Voice By Decree, Jeff Sessions and Kirstjen Nielsen Unilaterally Gut Asylum in America ICYMI: Dara Lind: “A New Study Blows up Trump’s ‘Catch-and-Release’ Myth” English Santa Fe New Mexican (Editorial) Welcoming the strangers among us July 11, 2018 Houston Chronicle (Editorial) Right to work? Not if you’re an...
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America’s Voice Despite Public Outrage, an Executive Order Purportedly Ending Family Separation and Two Court Decisions, the Trump Administration Remains Intent on Mass Family Detention and Separation ICYMI: Trump Administration May Start Separating Families, Again ICYMI: Blavity, “Here’s How The Trump Administration Could Potentially Separate 200,000 U.S. Born Kids...
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Jul 10, 2018
A woman who was trying to celebrate her 24th birthday at a Chicago park instead found herself being the target of a racist tirade from a man who got menacingly close, even as a nearby police officer failed to intervene. Mia Irizarry was setting up her party when the...
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A federal judge has ordered that US immigration agents can no longer separate parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally and must work to reunite those families that have been split up within 30 days. Dana Sabraw, a district court judge in San Diego, granted the American Civil...
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America’s Voice Following Yesterday’s Flores Decision, the Simple Solution is Prosecutorial Discretion and Alternative Forms of Detention Judge orders US to reunite families separated at border within 30 days USA Today: “Family separation combines cruelty, incompetence” English Boston Globe President Trump’s caustic racial comments dovetail with harsh policies By...
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Jul 9, 2018
Los Angeles police say a 92-year-old man was beaten with a brick during his regular walk around his neighborhood on Independence Day. Rodolfo Rodriguez was reportedly doing his routine walk when he accidentally bumped into a young girl on the sidewalk, The Sacramento Bee reported. That’s when Rodriguez was reportedly attacked...
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America’s Voice The Willful Incompetence of the Trump Administration is Failing to Resolve the Family Separation Crisis Washington Post, “Trump is Set to Separate More than 200,000 U.S.-Born Children from Their Parents” 28 Reasons Why ICE is a Rogue Agency Salvar al país de la destrucción de Trump English...
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America’s Voice On Week of July 4th, Trump Immigration Crackdown Targets the Most Patriotic Among Us Malevolence and Incompetence: Trump Administration More Interested in Shifting Blame Than Reuniting Families 58% Disapprove of Trump’s Immigration Record ICYMI: NY Times Op-ed by Efrén Olivares of Texas Civil Rights Project Highlights Story...
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America’s Voice Trump Administration Fails to Redesignate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Yemenis ICYMI: PRI, “Homeland Security to decide whether to deport 1,200 Yemenis to a war zone” When Will GOP Candidates Learn that Scapegoating Immigrants Won’t Work? Listen to the “A is for America” Podcast, Fourth of July...
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