Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
America’s Voice ICYMI: Federal Judge Dismisses Texas AG Paxton’s Suit Against Cities That are Fighting Against SB4 Standing Up for DACA: Support for Dreamers On Display Across America Columbus, Ohio Kicks-Off National “Dreamer Dinner” Campaigns with Councilwoman Elizabeth Brown Columbus Dreamer Dinner Seeks to Shore Up Support for DACA... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
America’s Voice ICYMI: Eduardo Porter of the New York Times: “The Danger From Low-Skilled Immigrants: Not Having Them” Moment of Truth is at Hand for California State Law that Defies Trump Deportation Agenda Private Prisons Are Making Millions By Helping to Deport Longtime Immigrant-Americans — And They’re Positively Gleeful About... Continue »
This is What Inhumanity Looks Like When it Infects a Bureaucracy Throughout the country, we are seeing evidence of how the Trump Administration and ICE are engaged in a sweeping and indiscriminate effort to ramp up deportations.  However, the sheer cruelty of the deportations being enacted in our name... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
America’s Voice RAISE Act and Trump’s Immigration Approach Face Fierce Backlash From Leading Observers Who Makes These Decisions? ICE Set to Deport Mom and Sole Caregiver of 8-Year-Old Cancer Patient Akron Beacon Journal, NYT, WSJ, and Conservative Pundits Critique Anti-Immigration Legislation, Trump’s Overall Immigration Approach John Oliver’s Last Week... Continue »
At the Arizona Republic this week is an editorial calling on the state to reinstate in-state tuition for immigrant students, by overturning a 2006 ballot measure that withheld the lower rate for Dreamers. “These are our children,” the editorial states, “these are Arizona’s kids.” In June, an appeals court... Continue »
Here’s a basic question we often come across: why can’t undocumented immigrants just “get in line”, “get legal”, “get right with the law” — i.e. obtain the legalization and citizenship that would allow them to become full-fledged Americans and protect them from deportation? The short answer is: they can’t.... Continue »
Jesus Lara Lopez, an Ohio taxpayer and father of four U.S. citizen children, was deported yesterday to Mexico following a tearful goodbye with his family. Unfortunately, Jesus’ case is not an isolated one.  The heartbreak that he and his family feel today is the same heartbreak that so many other... Continue »
The House Appropriations Committee today marked up the DHS appropriations bill before taking a 30-22 party-line vote to pass it out of committee. Democratic amendments which were offered but voted down or withdrawn included provisions to cut CBP and ICE funding, to protect DACA, to prohibit ICE raids in... Continue »
Jesus Lara children Bob Gibbs
Willard, OH – In just five days, on July 18th,  Jesus Lara Lopez, a husband and father of four U.S. citizen children, is set to be deported. Yesterday, Cleveland’s WKYC featured the family in a heartbreaking interview in which Jesus’ children expressed concern about how they would manage if Jesus is forced to... Continue »
Se agota el tiempo para Gibbs y la familia Lara; la deportación está programada para el 18 de julio Willard, OH – Si ha seguido con detenimiento la historia de Jesús Lara, de Ohio, sabe que, en esencia, es una tragedia en la cual un padre de cuatro hijos estadounidesnes... Continue »