In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Catherine Rampell emphasizes yet another unnecessarily cruel drafted policy from the Trump administration that will punish immigrants and their families who benefited from public benefit programs like CHIP and SNAP. The administration’s new proposal, if enacted, will target immigrants and U.S....
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Reuters: “U.S. Reunions of Immigrant Families Grind to a Near Halt” After separating nearly 3,000 kids from their parents, the administration appears hellbent on keeping these families separated – undermining and disregarding court orders, withholding vital information, and ignoring the American people’s outcry. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to twiddle...
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“As our generation’s darkest moral scandal – the separation of innocent children from safety-seeking parents – continues to enrage the nation, the idea of rewarding one of its architects is unthinkable” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: We strongly recommend that the...
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Lynn Tramonte: “The U.S. government is deploying military-style raids to arrest humble farm workers, people who put food our tables every day” Yesterday, Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took to task terrorizing and disrupting more communities across Nebraska and Minnesota – arresting 133 agricultural workers in their...
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Following yesterday’s hearing on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in a hearing held by notorious anti-immigrant zealot Texas Judge Andrew Hanen, Dreamers (and their loved ones) raised their voices to express themselves and be heard as others debated their futures. Ciriac Alvarez, a Dreamer and...
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Families and Communities Across the U.S., Including D.C., Will Be Devastatingly Affected by Expiration of TPS TPS Expiration Dates: El Salvador, 9/9/2019 Haiti, 7/22/2019 Honduras, 1/5/2020 Nepal, 6/24/2019 Nicaragua, 1/5/2019 South Sudan, 5/2/2019 In her article for the Washington City Paper, Cassidy Jensen takes an in-depth look into what...
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As Congress Takes Recess and Children Head Back to School- We Must Not Forget About the Orphaned Immigrant Children Ahead of tomorrow’s status conference with Judge Sabraw, a reminder of where we stand: fourteen days after the family separation deadline and 572 children are still separated from their parents...
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In an opinion piece in USA Today, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton again strained to justify his attacks on young immigrants and his relentless drive to strip them of their protections provided by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Paxton and six other Republican attorneys general have sued...
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In a piece for the Washington Post, David Nakamura highlights the inefficacy of Trump’s cruel family separation policies. New data released yesterday bolster a recent report by the Center of American Progress showing that “neither family detention nor family separation policies have deterred families from coming to the United...
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At a time when some pundits are attempting to divine a nonexistent civil war on the left, it seems to us that the divide on the right is of greater consequence. With the GOP now the Party of Trump, there is still an active debate between those embracing the...
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