A recording of the call is available here. To read the report, click here Earlier today, refugee protection experts from Human Rights First (HRF), joined a call moderated by Ur Jaddou, Director of America’s Voice’s DHS Watch project and former Chief Counsel of USCIS, to discuss Human Rights First’s...
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Deterrence-Only Policy to Blame Yesterday, ProPublica released a deeply disturbing video documenting that the death of 16-year old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vazquez while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody last May was a preventable tragedy. The horrifying details reveal that CBP lied about what happened and covered...
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Today, Human Rights First (HRF) issued a report entitled, “Human Rights Fiasco: The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Asylum Returns Continue,” that compiles “overwhelming evidence that this illegal policy is a human rights catastrophe.” Yet, almost a year into this problematic program, the Trump administration...
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“For the more than 300,000 immigrants in the United States with Temporary Protected Status, every day brings them one step closer to deportation.” A new op-ed for The Progressive penned by Oscar Chacón, co-founder and executive director of Alianza Americas, and Sulma Arias, immigration field director of the Fair...
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Marielena Hincapié: “Vindman, Yovanovitch and Hill remind us that immigrants represent the best of America.” In a must-read op-ed in Newsweek, Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director of the National Immigration Law Center Immigrant Justice Fund, expresses her solidarity with fellow immigrants Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and Fiona...
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Washington Post looks back on a year of courage, revelations and controversy The Washington Post yesterday published a look back at a year’s worth of coverage regarding the Trump business empire’s reliance and exploitation of undocumented workers. The story, written by Joshua Partlow and David Fahrenthold, reveals the incredible...
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To say that the childhood that today’s immigrant children have had here has been a disastrous experience in the last two or three years is, literally, an understatement. In every case, the category of analysis should be to what level of trauma they have arrived, taking into account both...
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New report connects Stephen Miller’s embrace of white nationalist ideas to real immigration, refugee and asylum policies enacted and proposed by the Trump administration A report released today by America’s Voice, “The Stephen Miller Emails: Once Far-Right White Nationalist Ideas Are Now U.S. Policies” underscores the connections between Stephen...
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A joint exposé by ProPublica and the New York Times reveals that elite consulting company McKinsey & Company made shocking and inhumane recommendations to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). From the story: …the money-saving recommendations the consultants came up with made some career ICE workers uncomfortable. They proposed cuts...
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Video Demonstrates Just How Easy It Is to Scale the Wall President Trump’s political obsession over building the border wall has led to one government shutdown and threatens another. As leading observers condemn the Trump administration for its cronyism in rewarding a wall building contract to an unqualified firm...
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