Dec 22, 2017
More than 41,000 people – our family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues – have been targets of increased immigration enforcement by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2017, deportation arrests increased 37.6 percent over the same period in 2016. In his first year, Trump has overhauled immigration enforcement...
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America’s Voice A Year of Trump on Immigration: The Radical Vision, Cruel Implementation, and Nationwide Resistance of the Past Year We Believe that We Will Win The Faces of Deportation in 2017 ICYMI: “Rubashkin’s Sentence Commutation is ‘Win for Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Worker Forces’” Texas Reps. Hurd, Barton, and Flores:...
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Last night, Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the former owner of Agriprocessors, the Postville, Iowa kosher meatpacking plant that was the site of a huge immigration raid in 2008. Rubashkin, after the raid, was charged for immigration-related offenses but ultimately went to prison for bank...
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America’s Voice America’s Voice Recommends a No Vote on the Continuing Resolution New Report Advocates 18 Month Extension For El Salvador TPS Holders Based on Home Country Conditions Teen Vogue: TPS Holders and Dreamers Banding Together to Resist Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda New Policy Matters Ohio Analysis: “Crackdown on Dreamers could...
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During one of the last days before Congress must pass a bill to fund the government through January 2018, more than 1000 Dreamers and advocates took over Capitol Hill to demand the passage of a clean Dream Act. Wearing bright orange T-shirts and hats — “the color of hope...
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Today, Dreamers, allies — and one inflatable Grinch — visited Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) Austin office to demand that he not stand in the way of the Dream Act passing this year. Sen. Cornyn has a long, hypocritical, and anti-immigrant history where he likes to say good things about...
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America’s Voice After Divisive and Unpopular Tax Bill, Maybe Congress Should Try Passing Something that the Vast Majority of Americans Support CNN: America rescued her from Haiti. Now Trump wants to send her back. Bipartisan Group of Governors Call on Congress to Pass Urgent Dreamer Solution PHOTOS: Texan Dreamers Call...
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Gross human rights violations at four U.S. immigration detention centers were identified by Acting Inspector General John V. Kelly* for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a Dec. 11 report entitled Concerns about ICE Detainee Treatment and Care at Detention Facilities. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for...
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America’s Voice New CNN Poll: 83% of Americans, Including 67% of Republicans, Want Dreamers to Stay in America Why Representative Will Hurd Should Vote “No” on Spending Bills Unless Dreamer Fix is Addressed Las Vegas Now: 20,000 Nevadans fearful as DACA, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) deadline nears Inhumane Human Rights Violations...
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Last night, Dreamers, advocates, and members of Congress met at the Operation Dream Act Now tent on the Hill, before walking to the Capitol to serenade members of Congress with Christmas carols calling for the Dream Act. These weren’t regular Christmas carols. As one went: DACA calls now for...
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