United We Dream, Grassroots Leadership, and Workers Defense Project lead effort to making Austin more inclusive and equitable Late last night, the Austin City Council voted unanimously to pass Freedom City resolutions, policies that will address the city’s racial disparity in policing, require full vetting and reporting on...
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A recording of today’s call is available here In the wake of Republicans’ failure to gather the 218 signatures needed on a discharge petition to force a House floor vote on the Dream Act, Republicans are holding two immigration votes on the House floor next week. In today’s call,...
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“Why do do this work? To survive” This week, Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) took to the House floor to uplift the innumerable contributions of hard-working immigrants throughout the Buckeye state and to urge Congress to treat immigrants with respect and dignity. Her thirty-minute speech included multiple references to...
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Instead, It Would Prolong Detention of Children in Poor Conditions, End Decades Old Law That Protects Refugees Seeking Protection NBC reports House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan is claiming his immigration bill includes a provision to end family separation. A leaked outline of the bill says the bill would...
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Last night, as detention centers reached capacity, filled with kids ripped from their parents, the administration announced that it will open the first ‘tent city’ to house children – tents, propped up in the middle of the Texas desert. The crackdown seems destined to get worse. But as the...
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Yesterday, USA Today published an op-ed from DHS Watch Director Ur Jaddou. The piece criticizes the controversial policies adopted by the Trump administration at the border that are resulting in families being separated and refugees being turned away. As Jaddou notes, “The Trump administration, notably Attorney General Jeff Sessions,...
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Findings Echoed in Strong Turnout at Rallies Across the State A Quinnipiac poll of 1,000 Ohio registered voters shows that the vast majority supports creating a path to citizenship for Dreamers and other undocumented immigrants. From the poll: Ohio voters say 76 – 19 percent that undocumented immigrants brought...
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Ahead of Father’s Day, Senator Blumenthal (D-CT) joined Representatives Gutiérrez (D-IL), Gallego (D-AZ), and Polis (D-CO) and immigrant advocates to call on the Trump administration to end its inhumane policy of ripping apart families at the border. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), said, “I am the son of an immigrant....
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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, along with others, claims that the recently-negotiated and just released Republican-only bill would end family separation. Vox’s Dara Lind is out with a must-read explainer. Spoiler alert: The GOP is lying. As Lind explains: House Speaker Paul Ryan and others are emphasizing a...
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From across the country, leaders and editorial boards are denouncing the Trump Administration’s cruel and inhumane policies that are separating families, condemning vulnerable women and children to violence, and turning our backs on who we are as a nation: Cardinal Daniel DeNardo, President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic...
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