Appearance of Selective Enforcement to Protect President In an exchange at today’s subcommittee hearing of the House Appropriations Committee, Acting ICE Director Kevin McAleenan was given the opportunity to say if his agency would give President Trump’s businesses special treatment on immigration and prosecution. His answer was evasive,...
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We Need Common Sense, Effective and Humane Solutions Last night, the President issued a memorandum that purports to be a solution to the increasing number of families seeking asylum at our southern border by imposing fees on asylum seekers, ending work permits for asylum seekers to support themselves while...
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Greg Sargent’s newest column for the Washington Post puts Trump’s lies on full display as he tries to appeal to voters by touting a policy that isn’t in place. In Wisconsin, Trump was feeding voters a diet of lies and cruelty to get their applause at a rally. The...
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In his column late Monday, The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent outlines Trump’s failures, from sweeping losses in the 2018 midterm elections following vicious anti-immigrant campaigns, to the self-inflicted chaos at our southern border, and the consequences of Trump’s focus on riling up his base as we inch closer to...
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More Failure On Its Way At The Border The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the new restrictions on asylum seekers proposed by the Trump Administration. New restrictions on asylum encapsulate the vicious cruelty, failed policy, and cynical political motivations that...
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A story today in The Intercept reveals that a security contractor for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took the time to meticulously catalog a series of protests against the President’s family separation policy and report those protests preemptively to all DHS staffers and law enforcement across the country....
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As President Trump campaigned on Fox News about his ‘successes’ demonizing and terrorizing immigrants, and called for a reformed immigration system because “We need workers,” a new investigative article by Buzzfeed reporters Ken Bensinger, Jeremy Singer-Vine, and Jessica Garrison flagrantly displays Trump’s hypocrisy. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property purposefully overlooked local...
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Congress Must Act to Protect Americans at Home and Interests Abroad A recording of the call is here. Earlier today, national security experts gathered to highlight a letter signed by groups from across the nation explaining the importance of passing the Dream and Promise Act of 2019 (H.R. 6)...
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