Maribel Hastings and David Torres Disasters have the bad habit of exposing, to all, the multiple problems that many of us already knew existed, but others, out of economic and political convenience, prefer to keep sweeping under the rug. This is typical not only in societies that have everything,...
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More and more observers are recognizing the essential role that farmworkers play in keeping food on America’s tables and the essential role that immigrants play in the farmworker workforce and agricultural industry. Yet as this recognition grows, the Trump administration is disconcertingly seeking to slash wages for farmworkers and...
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President Trump’s campaign released a new online ad attacking Vice President Joe Biden for criticizing Trump’s early turn to “xenophobia.” Yet the ad inadvertently reveals the very “xenophobia” the Trump campaign condemns. As numerous observers have pointed out, the ad takes Biden’s remarks out of context and portrays the...
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Frank Sharry: “Mike Pence’s gauzy spin does not drive the administration’s hardline policies toward immigrants; Trump and Stephen Miller do.” Yesterday, Yamiche Alcindor of PBS Newshour referenced the nearly 30,000 healthcare workers who have DACA while asking Vice President Mike Pence: Is the administration in any way ready to...
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CIS and Breitbart Shamelessly Impugn All Frontline Workers The fight against COVID-19 requires we all come together, work together and have each other’s back. For many of us, the job is to stay at home, social distance and mitigate the spread of this deadly disease. For others, the job...
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The number of Arizonans infected with coronavirus continues to grow each day and we continue to lack adequate testing, equipment and supplies across the state to fight the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, GOP Senators like Sen. Martha McSally continue to defend Trump’s raiding of military projects for border wall...
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It seems that for the first time in the history of the United States, the arduous labor of undocumented workers has become visible to those who, not so long ago, did not even consider them indispensable. And the most inconvenient part of it is that there have been —and...
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A recording of the call is available here Earlier today, former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials gathered on a press call to discuss the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the immigrant community. DHS has largely prioritized the President’s tough stance against immigrants and immigration over measures to...
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“Our undocumented workforce risks exposure each day on our collective behalf, while they are simultaneously denied economic relief and shut out of our health-care system.” In a new must read op-ed in the Washington Post, Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, makes the case for why...
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During a Public Health Crisis Requiring Deft Policy Responses, Trump and GOP Focus on Politics and Power We’re in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime global health crisis that should be the all consuming focus of a presidential administration. Instead, the Trump administration continues to escalate its relentless anti-immigrant political...
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