Today, the White House rolled out a new anti-immigrant proposal which would use the fact that Dreamers need protection from deportation in order to pass a slate of nativist, anti-immigrant measures that would change U.S. demographics for the long run. The proposal, spearheaded by senior policy “adviser” Stephen Miller, would...
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Yesterday, President Trump said he would be open to putting some Dreamers on a path to citizenship, only to have it walked back by unnamed senior staff. The following is a reaction and a reflection on the state of play by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: We...
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“Our democracy rests on the bedrock principle that every person is equal before the law” The NAACP is suing the Department of Homeland Security after its decision to cancel Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 60,000 Haitians currently protected under the program, on the grounds that this decision marks ‘an egregious departure...
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The Trump White House is full of extremist right-wing characters, perhaps none more so than “senior policy adviser” Stephen Miller and his former boss, Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The recent Michael Wolff book “Fire and Fury” described Miller memorably as “a fifty-five-year-old trapped in a thirty-two-year-old’s body”, who was...
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America’s Voice Frank Sharry: “The Hardliners are High-Fiving; The Statue of Liberty Weeps.” Frank Sharry: “Narrow Gets It Done, and Now” NAACP Sues Trump Administration Over Ending Protected Status For Haitians Samantha Bee Takes on “Racist —hole” Stephen Miller and His Disturbing Role in Trump White House Here’s How Advocates...
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Jan 24, 2018
Now that the government has reopened, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has “promised” Senate Democrats a vote on a bill that will address the crisis affecting Dreamers since the DACA program was ended by President Trump in September. Leading the efforts on the Republican side is Texas Sen. John...
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“Immigration and the U.S. construction industry have been doing an odd, mutually beneficial dance for decades” Trump’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 200k Salvadoran immigrants delivers a devastating blow to the construction industry, a field that continually confronts workforce challenges, given its already-stretched labor force. Two pieces –...
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Sign the petition asking ICE to stop Joel Colindres’ deportation here. Joel Colindres is a Connecticut father who is facing deportation in less than two weeks, even though ICE gave him a stay of deportation just last year. Colindres has been in the US since 2004, is married to...
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The contributions of America’s Dreamers – and the uncertainty they face after Trump killed the DACA program – continue to be highlighted in media across the United States. See below excerpts from Massachusetts, Ohio, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Texas, and Forbes magazine. WBUR, Boston’s NPR affiliate, published...
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Washington Post’s Greg Sargent and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Highlight Promise Speaker Ryan Made, But Has Not Kept, to Angelica Villalobos In a new piece in the Washington Post’s The Plum Line blog, Greg Sargent focuses on a promise that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan made last year to Dreamer Angelica Villalobos....
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