Today, nearly 1,500 economists sent a letter to Donald Trump and top Congressional leaders highlighting how immigrants contribute to the economy and urging Congress to pass immigration reform. Economists: immigrants contribute to the economy As the letter said: Immigration is one of America’s significant competitive advantages in the global economy....
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited the US-Mexico border yesterday, where he spoke of Trump’s efforts to crack down on immigration violations and talked about border crossers in biblically apocalyptic terms. “It is here that criminal aliens and the coyotes and the document-forgers seek to overthrow our system of lawful...
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ENGLISH USA Today Errors prompt Trump to halt reports shaming ‘sanctuary cities’ By Alan Gomez April 11, 2017 US News & World Report Sessions Enhances Criminal Penalties for Immigration Violations: ‘This Is the Trump Era’ By Alan Neuhauser April 11, 2017 Arizona Republic Sessions directs felony charges against repeat...
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Apr 11, 2017
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia was spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti overnight on the first night of Passover, and police are still looking for a suspect or suspects. Among the hateful messages, “Hitler was right” was spray-painted across an entrance of the JCCNV, which is located on Little...
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The Trump Administration is at least temporarily walking back its decision to weekly publish a list of cities and counties it deems too friendly to immigrants. The administration had only gotten around to publishing, it seems, two reports, but said that it would stop after an outcry over misleading and...
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ENGLISH New York Times Once Routine, Immigration Check-Ins Are Now High Stakes By Liz Robbins April 11, 2017 New York Times Trump Administration Halts Reports on Immigration Cooperation By Ron Nixon April 10, 2017 Politico Report: ‘Favoritism’ and ‘cronyism’ in ICE office By Marianne Levine April 10, 2017 Fusion...
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Yesterday, thousands of people joined a march in downtown Dallas in support of immigration reform and against Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy. The “Dallas Mega March” drew more than 3,000 rally-goers and included human rights activist Martin Luther King III and Congressmen Joaquin Castro and Beto O’Rourke. Marchers walked...
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For the last few months, Donald Trump has been running a mass deportation agenda that has terrified communities, separated families, and made it clear that all undocumented immigrants in the US are now at risk of deportation. Last week, we published a blog post about four immigrant parents living in different...
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ENGLISH The Plain Dealer Lorain mom among undocumented immigrants facing tougher deportation action under Trump By Michael Sangiacomo April 06, 2017 Deseret News Efforts to undo deportation of Draper mother fail By Annie Knox April 7, 2017 New York Times Mayor Says Indiana Man’s Deportation ‘Feels Like a Defeat...
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Apr 9, 2017
An attempt to burn an east Charlotte store that included a note warning of plans to “torture” immigrants is being investigated as a hate crime by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. Police say officers were called at 9:59 p.m. Thursday to a fire at the Central Market, a Nepali Indian store at...
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