Children Don’t Belong in Detention, Especially When There Are Effective, Humane and Cost-efficient Alternatives Medical experts, from pediatricians to psychologists, have resoundingly agreed that separating children from parents under Trump’s family separation policy is “causing irreparable harm… can carry lifelong consequences for children.” The President of the American Academy...
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Pastor Dustin White: We can no longer as a people exploit the suffering of the vulnerable to prop up our own privilege and affluence Following is a statement from Lynn Tramonte, Director of America’s Voice Ohio, with quotes from state and national leaders. Ohio, we need to have a...
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The Cato Institute’s new analysis of Speaker Paul Ryan’s “Border Security and Immigration Reform Act” finds that 82% of Dreamers will not benefit from the restrictive citizenship path. David Bier and Stuart Anderson write: Only a third of the Dreamer population would likely receive status under the House plan...
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No, Secretary Nielsen, Enforcing the Law Does Not Require Tearing Families Apart. DHS Secretary Nielsen claims DHS is merely enforcing the law to secure the border when her Department separates children from parents. She is wrong. The separation is the result of a series of draconian policy choices by...
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House Immigration Votes Are Meant to Distract from, Not Resolve the Family Separation Crisis AV Urges “No” Votes on Goodlatte and Ryan Bills America’s Voice recommends that members of the House of Representatives vote no on Goodlatte and Ryan’s immigration bills set for this week. Summary The “Securing America’s...
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Ohio Voters Want to Know: Where Do DeWine, Cordray, Yost, and Dettelbach Stand? Seventy-five former U.S. attorneys, serving in both Republican and Democratic administrations, sent a scathing letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions today, denouncing the Trump administration’s policy of mandatory criminal prosecutions of immigrants crossing the border, and...
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Americans Must Rise Up to Call an End to Attacks on Immigrant Families and Restore Our Values It’s a moment of truth for House members this week when they vote on two anti-immigrant bills. The Goodlatte and Ryan-Trump bills essentially do the same thing: both create an underclass of...
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A recording of today’s call is available here. As the Trump administration continues to take children from their parents as part of their unprecedented and recently-initiated “zero tolerance” policy, and as President Trump and House leadership gear up to divert attention to House immigration votes later this week, experts gathered...
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