As we approach today’s deadline for the Trump administration to reunite 2,500 children with their families, the Washington Post is out with a scathing editorial. They conclude: “From top to bottom, the Sessions-Nielsen zero-decency policy is a humanitarian outrage perpetrated in the name of the American people.” An excerpt...
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Recent environmental disaster provide basis for protecting 500k+ Guatemalans Today, over 300 national, state, and local immigrant, religious, labor, and civil rights organizations sent a letter to Kristjen Nielsen, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), asking her to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Guatemala in light of...
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Thousands of Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders are terrified of their futures as 2019 deadline approaches Martin Vassolo from the Miami Herald highlights the fear spreading across Haitian communities as the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is less than a year out from its expiration on July 22,...
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Today, the House Appropriations Committee is meeting to vote on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill that would further fund the Trump Administration’s ongoing assault against immigrants. From separating families at the border to indiscriminately targeting long-settled immigrants throughout America, Trump’s DHS – under both former Secretary...
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A new CNN article exposes the fact that the Trump administration is more interested in exploiting fears of MS-13 to advance their political agenda than in actually destroying this gang. As CNN’s Tal Kopan reports: The Trump administration was warned that ending US protections for more than 300,000 Central...
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Americans are angry over child separations at the border, despite a concerted PR effort by the Trump administration to pretend they’ve got things under control and act like there’s “nothing to see here.” Ahead of tomorrow’s court-ordered deadline to reunify families, the Trump administration is trying to spin their...
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ICYMI: Judge Orders the Release of a Pizza Delivery Man Detained by ICE After nearly two months in detention, U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty ordered the release of Pablo Villavicencio-Calderon, an undocumented husband and father of two who was detained while trying to deliver pizza to an army base...
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In spite of ICE policy that officers should “generally avoid enforcement actions in courthouses,” The Charlotte Observer reports that ICE arrested a woman and her 16-year-old son outside a courtroom set aside for domestic violence cases. According to the report, the woman, identified as Maria, had moved into a...
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Toplines are available here Today, experts released new battleground poll results conducted by Latino Decisions – on behalf of America’s Voice, Mi Familia Vota, Indivisible, NAACP, The Immigration Hub, and AAPI Civic Engagement Fund – of Latino, Asian American, African American, Native American, and White likely voters in 61...
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Deportation & Family Separation Dates: Sudan: November 2, 2018 Nicaragua: January 5, 2019 Nepal: June 24, 2019 Haiti: July 22, 2019 El Salvador: September 9, 2019 Honduras: January 5, 2020 Reuters reports that yesterday a Boston judge rejected the Trump administration’s bid to end a lawsuit arguing that the...
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