Two days before a court-ordered deadline, it is increasingly obvious that the Trump administration will not reunite all the children they took from their parents. The cruelty and cynicism of this administration seems to know no bounds. Trump and his team mobilized every resource, agent and contractor they could...
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Austin, TX – Court filings published today by the Texas Tribune show hundreds of cases of inedible food, cold facilities, and outbreak of diseases in both Customs and Border Patrol holding facilities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. The piece by Emma Platoff highlights the stories of several...
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Haitian Deportation & Family Separation Date: July 22, 2019 This weekend marked one year until Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti expires after the Trump Administration canceled the program earlier this year. In just one year — on July 22, 2019 — the Trump administration will begin deporting more...
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A collection of recent quotes captures the sweep and implications of Trump and his team taking a wrecking ball to the Statue of Liberty Along the border and throughout the interior of our country, the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown against immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and core American ideals is in...
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Somali Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Holders to Face Uncertainty After Non Re-Designation Decision In an article from Rewire, Tina Vazquez highlights the distress felt by Somali TPS holders as well as advocacy groups as a result of the Trump administration’s decision to not re-designate Somalia for the program. The...
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In a blistering review of Kirstjen Nielsen, America’s Voice Digital Director Van Le blasts the DHS Secretary in a must-read post. Check out excerpts from her blog below: Is she a careerist, cowed by Trump, willfully blind, evil — or all of the above? Kirstjen Nielsen, chief of the...
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In an deep dive piece for Vox, Alexia Fernández Campbell captures how Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) tore into a top Trump administration official — Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s pick for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — for her role in the family separation scandal. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director...
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House and Senate GOP Leadership Linked to New Immigration Attack Ads – Latest Reminder that Desperate Republicans Are Running on Division In Hopes of Distracting Voters The Republican embrace of immigrant-bashing not limited to President Trump and Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...
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Former UT Law School professor Barbara Hines breaks down why family separation is a continuation of inhumane immigration policies Read piece here In an opinion piece published yesterday in the Austin American-Statesman, Barbara Hines, a nationally-recognized leader on immigration and asylum and a retired clinical professor of law at...
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Frank Sharry: “The only bad actors that should be separated from these kids are the federal officials who cruelly and coldly caused this crisis” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, in response to reports that the federal government is deciding which children...
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