Americans Cannot Be Proud of Their Government’s Actions Editorial boards and observers from across the country are condemning the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents in an attempt to deter asylum seekers. Below, find excerpts from recent columns and editorials highlighting why the Trump Administration’s policy...
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Border Network for Human Rights brings hundreds of families together in fifth cross-border event El Paso, Texas – On Saturday, more than 300 families from across the U.S. were able to reunite with family members who they haven’t seen, in some cases for decades, because they’ve either been deported...
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Los Angeles Times: “On eve of Mother’s Day, immigrant activists make a plea to keep families together” Yemen TPS Decision Deadline: July 5, 2018 Somalia TPS Decision Deadline: July 19, 2018 This weekend, as families gathered nationwide to celebrate Mother’s Day, immigrants and activists rallied to keep families together, protesting the Trump...
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La Opinión editorial and Matt Yglesias at Vox with key new commentaries as Trump Administration advances cruel new policies at the border Two new commentaries capture why the Trump Administration’s approach to border and asylum policy is defined by callousness and inhumanity and not by the actual facts or...
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Juan Escalante: “Give Dreamers, like me, a chance to pursue the American Dream” A powerful editorial in this weekend’s Washington Post calls on Congress to deliver a vote for Dreamers and explains why forcing such a vote would be an important step forward. The editorial sharply criticizes Speaker Paul Ryan’s failure...
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WaPo: U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway. Reuters: Top Trump aide says protected immigrants need path to citizenship A recording of the press call is available here. Following Chief of Staff John Kelly and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s comments surrounding Temporary Protected Status (TPS) as well as Donald...
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As momentum builds around the House discharge petition, an attempt spearheaded by Republicans to resolve their party’s created Dreamer crisis, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (WI-01) has issued yet another vague, empty promise for an immigration bill. This is just his latest thinly veiled attempt to squander a bipartisan solution for...
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In his latest column, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent delivers an insightful and sobering take on the latest Dream Act action happening on Capitol Hill. Read excerpts from the latest Greg Sargent’s column from The Washington Post below and find the entire piece here: In January of 2017, at a town hall meeting broadcast...
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The New Yorker’s Masha Gessen compares the Trump administration’s policy of ripping children from the arms of their parents to tactics employed by Putin. In her latest column she notes, “Hostage-taking is an instrument of terror. Capturing family members, especially children, is a tried-and-true instrument of totalitarian terror. Memoirs of Stalinist terror are...
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“It’s unconscionable that this Administration is looking for new ways to create broken families, instead of keeping them whole” Cleveland, OH — Ahead of Mother’s Day, fifteen faith and community-based organizations in Ohio issued an open letter condemning Trump Administration immigration policies that needlessly separate mothers from their children....
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