Congress Begins Hearings on the Facts, Not the Falsehoods Amid a new NBC News report of children being sexually assaulted and retaliated against by border officials in immigration detention, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the House of Representatives’ Oversight Committee will hold a hearing today...
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Mexico Shares the Shame with US We are in the midst of a full-blown human rights crisis created and worsened by the Trump administration’s actions and neglect. Take just one of the many cruel policies enacted – the “Remain in Mexico” or “Migrant Protection Protocols” policy, which returns asylum...
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Donald Trump’s obstinacy toward immigrants is at every level. If they arrive at the border requesting asylum, he utilizes the cruelest mechanisms to keep them from continuing to come. That includes the separation of families, returning them to Mexico to wait for their hearings, or packing them together in...
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Trump Hypocrisy on Full Display Last week, former undocumented employees of various Trump businesses who bravely came forward about the hypocrisy of Trump and his administration, penned a letter to request a meeting with the President to discuss immigration reform. In response, President Trump continues to deny any knowledge...
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What Happened to Simple American Decency? The volume of disturbing developments and relevant news about the Trump administration’s immigration and border plans are hard to keep up with. But the common threads connecting many of the developments is one of cruelty, chaos, and dehumanization. According to Douglas Rivlin, Communications...
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“Sharing the rights and responsibilities of citizenship is a value that spans America and Americans, regardless of party or partisanship.” Douglas Rivlin As President Trump gets ready for his tanks and airplane-filled ego trip on the National Mall, millions of Americans are rightfully outraged about the human rights crisis...
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The first two democratic debates last week reflected, to a point, this country’s reality. That is, its diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual identity, and ideology was evident: white people, minorities, women and men, a representative from the LGBTQ community, members of different generations, as well as positions...
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The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice: We are witnessing a human rights crisis in real time, the magnitude of which should shake us to our core. As the saying goes, the fish rots from the head down. And Donald Trump has failed...
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