NPR’s Weekend Edition: Honduran TPS Holder Father Meets Son for First Time For NPR’s Weekend Edition, Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with a Honduran man and his son who were reunited in the U.S. for the first time in their lives. The father is a Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holder and...
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President Trump and Republicans made the 2018 midterm elections a referendum on immigration, and lost badly. They thought that stoking fear and hysteria about a migrant caravan would turn the tide. It didn’t. Xenophobia backfired. Democrats won the popular vote by the largest midterm margin in history, flipping 40...
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This afternoon, Joshua Partlow and David Fahrenthold at the Washington Post revealed that, in addition to recruiting, providing false documents for, hiring, employing, and exploiting undocumented workers at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, a similar pattern and practice of unlawful behavior has taken place at the Trump National Golf...
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The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: Isolated, defeated and desperate, President Trump flew the white flag today. He has finally relented, agreeing to reopen the government he closed and to stop the suffering he caused. Trump took nearly a million government workers...
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On Friday, January 25, Fox News will be flying in Brian Kilmeade and Tomi Lahren to Texas to host a town hall meeting that will include elected officials, dubbed “Battle at the Border”. The event will be held in a resort in the wealthy outskirts of San Antonio, in...
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On Thursday, January 24th, the Senate will take up two bills. The first is a Republican bill that includes President Trump’s insistence on border wall funding. The second is a continuing resolution backed by Democrats that would reopen government through February 8th. The following is a statement from Frank...
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New polls from CBS News and Politico/Morning Consult continue to find that Trump and Republicans are being blamed for the government shutdown. CBS News polling released today: By a 71-28 percent margin, Americans say the border wall is not worth a government shutdown. By partisan affiliation: Democrats: By 92-7...
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This past weekend, the White House hyped President Trump’s speech as a good faith offer that would deliver generous relief for DACA and TPS holders. The the actual bill was released, and just the opposite is true. Not only is the 1,300 page bill chock full of poison pills...
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In a blog post for the Cato Institute, immigration policy analyst David Bier details how the Trump’s latest immigration “deal” guts the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients he promised to protect. Instead of extending DACA, Bier makes a compelling case for how the Senate bill “replaces it...
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With the longest government shutdown in history, President Trump continues to hold the American people, their government, and federal workers hostage for a border wall that experts agree harms border communities, the environment, wildlife, and is simply ineffective. On Saturday, President Trump unveiled a new proposal in a feigned...
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