In Juan Escalante’s latest column for HuffPost, he breaks down the most recent examples of harassment and xenophobia Spanish speakers must endure at the hand of President Donald Trump’s “unshackled” deportation force and loyalists. Read excerpts from Juan’s latest HuffPost column below and find the full piece here: Social media blazed...
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May 23, 2018
America’s Voice’s Maribel Hastings and David Torres respond to the recent cases of harassment against Spanish-speakers, one example from a lawyer in a cafe in New York City and another from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at a gas station in Montana. Their joint column was originally published in Spanish by La Opinión. Read the...
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Tasnim News Agency: “Central Americans Are Fleeing Violence in Higher Numbers: UNHCR” A new assessment from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) calls into question Donald Trump’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal immigrants living in the United States, including from Honduras, Nicaragua,...
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It is Unconstitutional and a Clear Violation of DHS Policy Yesterday, directly contradicting decades-old Supreme Court case law and federal policy on immigration enforcement around schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos argued that individual schools can decide to report students and families to immigration enforcement. U.S. Supreme Court...
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Will DHS walk back or endorse assertion from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that schools can decide whether to report undocumented students to immigration enforcement? U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos yesterday embraced the notion that individual schools can decide to report students and families to immigration enforcement – an...
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Recent NBC News and Los Angeles Times reports illustrate the inhumane and predictable effects of DHS’s new policy of prosecuting every immigrant who crosses the border without inspection. Parents who come to the United States seeking safety for their children are instead being separated and prosecuted criminally, with no...
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Matt Hildreth: “This kind of fear-mongering has no place in our country. We are better than this.” As the White House’s continues to stoke fear over immigrants and as President Trump delivers another anti-immigrant stemwinder on Long Island, it’s again worth remembering the ongoing gulf between the Trump administration’s...
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Pili Tobar: “It’s a moment of truth for Republicans who say they want action” House Republican leaders, under pressure from moderates in swing districts to bring up the Dream Act, have caved to pressure from the Freedom Caucus and promised a vote on the far-right nativist bill authored by...
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