Letter: Allowing TPS To End Could “Force The Separation of Families” Over 100 members of Congress signed a letter calling on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to reinstate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti. The termination of TPS for hundreds of thousands of hard-working, full...
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An appropriately impassioned new editorial from the Houston Chronicle calls for accountability and consequences for the architects, enablers, and implementers responsible for the ongoing family separation crisis. Below, find key excerpts from the Houston Chronicle editorial, “Lock them up? Trump officials who separated migrant families must face consequences for...
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President Trump’s unhinged, unfiltered speech in Tampa last night, following days of stoking the threat of an immigration and wall-funding related government shutdown, exemplifies what we’ll see for the remainder of this election cycle: a Trump-led and Republican-supported effort to whip up xenophobic fears and scapegoat familiar targets, such...
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Expiration Date for TPS for Nicaragua: 1/5/2019 The Miami Herald Editorial Board agrees with Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for Nicaraguans should be kept in place. If deported to Nicaragua, over 5,000 Nicaraguans will face violence and oppression as well as potential separation from...
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As a result of the cruelty and incompetence that embodies the ongoing family separation crisis: DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen should resign. Under her watch, DHS performed state-sanctioned kidnapping, ripping children away from their parents arms and exposing them to inhumane living conditions and child abuse. After launching complete chaos,...
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White House Advisor Stephen Miller Has Consolidated His Control of the Refugee, Asylum and Immigration Agenda Today, Julie Hirschfeld Davis of the New York Times reports that Stephen Miller is in the driver’s seat, as the White House prepares to sharply reduce the number of refugees resettled in America...
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The Department of Defense is currently in the process of preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 immigrants and asylum seekers, including children, on a military bases in Texas and Arkansas. In opposition, nearly two dozen retired General and Flag Officers signed a letter expressing serious concern that diverting...
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As the excerpts below remind us, the crisis continues: Miriam Jordan in the New York Times, “A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He’s Not the Same”: Before they were separated at the southwest border, Ana Carolina Fernandes’s 5-year-old son loved playing with the yellow, impish Minion characters from...
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The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, regarding today’s Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to reunite families: The Trump administration – in our name, with our taxes, and by our government agents – has been responsible...
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Shutdown talk has nothing to do with policy, it’s nothing more than calculated politics; it unites Republicans, feeds the base and distracts from bread-and-butter issues that favor Democrats Some observers are covering President Trump’s latest threats to shutdown the government over a border wall as a policy issue and...
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