Did John Kelly try to save face over the deportation of a Honduras mother by returning Bob Casey’s calls at 6:30 am? Tweetstorm over the deportation of a Honduras mother Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) drew national attention to the deportation of a Honduran mother and child this week when...
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English Washington Post Texas governor poised to sign nation’s harshest anti-sanctuary bill By Maria Sacchetti May 04, 2017 Wall Street Journal Texas Nears Approval of Tough Anti-Sanctuary-City Law By Dan Frosch May 04, 2017 Texas Tribune The Brief: Gov. Greg Abbott indicates he’ll sign bill banning “sanctuary” policies By...
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At Vice News this week is an amazing and comprehensive longread about the John Tanton Network – the collection of hate groups (and hate-adjacent groups) that includes the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), NumbersUSA, and others. It’s called “Radical anti-immigrant groups infiltrated...
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English Washington Post (Op-Ed) The Trump administration has already botched its new programs on immigrant crime By Julio Ricardo Varela May 04, 2017 Washington Post Wells Fargo targeted undocumented immigrants, stalked street corners, lawsuit claims By Kristine Phillips May 04, 2017 Daily Kos Not from ‘The Onion’—Trump picks anti-immigrant...
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The famous Kentucky Derby is this Saturday, but behind the pageantry and horse racing will be an industry that is struggling with a painful and damaging immigrant labor shortage. Also highlighted below are stories about how Cape Cod businesses won’t have enough immigrants for the summer tourist season — and how...
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Donald Trump’s mass deportation of immigrants are tearing apart families and damaging the economy — but one group that’s benefiting is the private prison industry (and their investors). At the Daily Beast, Betsy Woodruff covered a shareholder call this week conducted by the GEO group, a private prison company that is...
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English Washington Post (Op-Ed) Trump sees government as a series of deals. That’s because he’s an oligarch. By Heather Cox Richardson May 03, 2017 Daily Kos ICE agents raid youth shelter to arrest teen asylum seeker on his 18th birthday By Gabe Ortiz May 02, 2017 Washington Times Crackdown...
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On April 26, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security announced the creation of VOICE, short for Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement, an office that would take calls from people who have suffered crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. In its first few days of existence, VOICE was flooded with calls...
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ENGLISH Daily Kos With not a single peso for the wall, funding deal ‘a stinging defeat’ for Trump By Gabe Ortiz May 01, 2017 Washington Times Cheap foreign labor to flood workforce after spending bill doubles number of visas By Stephen Dinan May 01, 2017 Normangee Star Immigration Arrests...
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Today was May Day, and advocates across the country rallied in favor of immigrants’ rights and against Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies. But in Texas, protesters today turned out with particular urgency against SB4, a draconian anti-immigrant state bill that was passed by the state legislature last week and is...
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