The latest episode of the national America’s Voice podcast, “A is for America,” features Natalia Alonso and her mom, Monica, two local heroes who leapt into action after the devastating June 5 workplace raids on Corso’s Flower and Garden stores in Sandusky and Castalia, Ohio. After the raid took...
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Tramonte: “Trump’s deportation force sees Anita Marin only as a statistic and a game piece, not a human being. We cannot allow our government to treat our friends and neighbors this way.” Cleveland, OH – Lorain County resident Anita Marin and her daughters have been living a nightmare...
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A recording of the press call is available here. Today, TPS holder parents, U.S. citizen children of TPS parents, and policy experts discussed the potentially catastrophic implications if deportations commence as a result of the Trump Administration’s cancellation of Temporary Protected Status from 300,000 legal immigrants who have built...
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“My husband tortured me,” she said simply. She said he regularly choked her until she passed out. He would cut himself and make her drink his blood. She showed me the fingers he had broken. She raised her blue uniform to reveal two letters — the first two of...
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This week, Vox’s Dara Lind is out with a new exclusive on a joint, must-read study from Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project (ASAP) and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC). The study shows that, despite the administration’s claims, Trump and his agents do not have to indefinitely detain immigrant families. It is legal...
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After enormous public and political pressure, President Trump issued an executive order (E.O.) that purportedly put an end to family separation. However, since that E.O. was signed three weeks ago, only a few families separated by the Trump Administration have been reunited, even families with infants and toddlers and...
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As the nation reels from Trump’s family separation policy, Vox’s Dara Lind cautions that — following Judge Dolly Gee’s Monday ruling — the Trump administration is gearing up to separate families again. As she explains: In some cases, Monday night’s ruling says, the government can force parents to make...
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Countdown to Somalia TPS Decision Deadline: 8 Days In an article for Blavity, Maya J. Boddie writes about the terrifying reality more than 300,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders are facing after the Trump administration ended the program: leaving their 273,000 U.S. citizen children behind when they’re forcibly deported...
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