Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
America’s Voice ICYMI: DeFrancesco Soto: “Calling Immigration on Latinos Protesting SB4 is Racial Profiling” Federal Judge: Hawaii Dad’s Deportation a Reminder that “Good Hombres” Not Safe Under Trump and Sec. Kelly Top News Washington Post Even the ‘good hombres’ are not safe: Federal judge blasts Trump’s deportation policies By... Continue »
SB4 targets all people of color.
Yesterday, more than 1,000 people from across the country of all races and ethnicities, took over the Texas Capitol to protest SB4, a racist and anti-immigrant law that targets people of color by allowing local law enforcement agents to act as federal immigration officials. Activists and allies in a... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
America’s Voice Cincinnati and Southern CA Offer Latest Reminders that Sec. Kelly Is Not Telling the Truth on Immigration Enforcement Trump’s Racist Rhetoric and the Spread of Hate In Texas, SB4 Makes All People of Color Targets Texas Republican: “I Called ICE” on Protesters, Threatened to “Put a Bullet”... Continue »
Texas Republican House Rep. Matt Rinaldi called hundreds of peaceful protesters at the Austin state capitol today a “disgrace” and said he’d called immigration authorities on them, according to multiple sources. “Fuck them,” he said. “I called ICE.” He also reportedly threatened to “put a bullet in one of... Continue »
This week in Texas saw cities and advocacy organizations joining the legal fight against Texas and its anti-immigrant SB 4 law. The Texas Civil Rights Project, the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, and El Paso County filed a new lawsuit against SB 4, while the ACLU joined an existing... Continue »
The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee passed H.R. 2431, known to advocates as the Mass Deportation Act of 2017, this week along with two other anti-immigrant bills which would bolster Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. The bills, among other things, would criminalize all undocumented immigrants living in the US, mandate detention... Continue »
John Kelly reveals his true colors Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was on Capitol Hill this week testifying in front of both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget. Early in Trump’s presidency, many hoped Kelly would turn out to be... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
America’s Voice DHS Secretary Kelly On Kids Who Flee Violence of Central America and Seek Safety and Family in America: “This is a Huge Scam” The New DHS M.O.: Dine, Discriminate and Detain GOP-Led House Judiciary Committee Has Passed “Mass Deportation and Child Incarceration Act of 2017” This Week... Continue »
Is Trump tired of winning yet? The 4th Circuit of the US Court of Appeals announced its ruling on Trump’s Muslim ban today, writing that the ban “drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.” The ruling actually addresses Trump’s second Muslim ban, the revised version that was announced in March... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
America’s Voice Trump’s Mass Deportation Policy Inspires Vigilantism and Violence Calling Out Secretary Kelly on ICE’s Real Targets and Tactics  4th Circuit: Trump’s Muslim Ban Still Unconstitutional Immigration Polling Snapshot – with focus on IN, MO, MT, ND, OH, and PA Top Stories Today New York Times Trump Budget... Continue »