Aug 13, 2018
Showing No Shame, Taking No Responsibility, and Doing Nothing to Clean Up the Disaster She Created, She has Failed the Leadership Test The Trump administration continues to drag its feet in reunifying families, with over 550 children still separated from their parents more than two weeks after the court-issued...
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The Truth is More Powerful than Blood Relations White House advisor Stephen Miller and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) are two of the most prominent architects of the Republicans’ cruel and cynical attacks on immigrants and refugees. Yet, family members of both are now speaking out against...
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Despite multiple court orders, the Trump administration continues to drag its feet in reunifying the families it separated. According to a report to the court overseeing this matter, very little progress has been made in reuniting the remaining children separated from parents, well after the court-ordered deadline of July...
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In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, Catherine Rampell emphasizes yet another unnecessarily cruel drafted policy from the Trump administration that will punish immigrants and their families who benefited from public benefit programs like CHIP and SNAP. The administration’s new proposal, if enacted, will target immigrants and U.S....
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Reuters: “U.S. Reunions of Immigrant Families Grind to a Near Halt” After separating nearly 3,000 kids from their parents, the administration appears hellbent on keeping these families separated – undermining and disregarding court orders, withholding vital information, and ignoring the American people’s outcry. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to twiddle...
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“As our generation’s darkest moral scandal – the separation of innocent children from safety-seeking parents – continues to enrage the nation, the idea of rewarding one of its architects is unthinkable” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: We strongly recommend that the...
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Lynn Tramonte: “The U.S. government is deploying military-style raids to arrest humble farm workers, people who put food our tables every day” Yesterday, Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents took to task terrorizing and disrupting more communities across Nebraska and Minnesota – arresting 133 agricultural workers in their...
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Following yesterday’s hearing on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in a hearing held by notorious anti-immigrant zealot Texas Judge Andrew Hanen, Dreamers (and their loved ones) raised their voices to express themselves and be heard as others debated their futures. Ciriac Alvarez, a Dreamer and...
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Families and Communities Across the U.S., Including D.C., Will Be Devastatingly Affected by Expiration of TPS TPS Expiration Dates: El Salvador, 9/9/2019 Haiti, 7/22/2019 Honduras, 1/5/2020 Nepal, 6/24/2019 Nicaragua, 1/5/2019 South Sudan, 5/2/2019 In her article for the Washington City Paper, Cassidy Jensen takes an in-depth look into what...
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As Congress Takes Recess and Children Head Back to School- We Must Not Forget About the Orphaned Immigrant Children Ahead of tomorrow’s status conference with Judge Sabraw, a reminder of where we stand: fourteen days after the family separation deadline and 572 children are still separated from their parents...
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