Immigrants & Refugees Come To Build Lives; Ohio to Benefit From Their Talent & Drive Columbus, OH — The Dispatch published an editorial applauding Governor Kasich’s immigration stance and creation of an Office of Opportunities for New Americans today. The piece states: We hope that, whether or not the...
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Michigan and Ohio Families Destroyed by Detroit ICE’s Rebecca Adducci Lansing, MI — Today marks the end of a 90-mile pilgrimage that Michigan activists are making from Detroit to Lansing, culminating in a lobby day at the Capitol lead by Michigan United. The goal of the pilgrimage is to...
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David Leopold, Partner and Chair of Immigration for Ulmer & Berne and past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, writes in a new post for Medium that – with his late-week announcement that immigration judges can no longer invoke “Administrative Closure,” a procedure judges and prosecutors used to manage caseloads...
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Evidently, racist lawyer bro in New York City isn’t the only one threatening Americans for speaking Spanish. In an article entitled, “A Border Patrol agent detained two U.S. citizens at a gas station after hearing them speak Spanish,” the Washington Post describes in 0disturbing detail how two U.S. citizens were detained...
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“Dehumanization is what you do to unwanted social groups before killing them” Last week, President Trump used the term “animals” when referring to immigrants. While some in the media are engaged in a debate over what immigrants he was referring to, key observers have stepped up to underscore the...
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Two new developments underscore how the Trump Administration — using aggressive and unprecedented strategies championed by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and ICE chief Thomas Homan — are prioritizing deportations of long-settled and hardworking immigrants. Laura Meckler’s Wall Street Journal story, “Wider Net Cast in Illegal-Immigration Cases,” connects...
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The uproar across the country and party lines against the administration’s inhumane immigration policies and rhetoric – from separating infants and toddlers from their parents to referring to immigrants as “animals” – is amplified only by the deafening silence in most of the Republican ranks. There are some notable exceptions. Below, we...
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Los más recientes comentarios de Donald Trump culpando, deshumanizando y convirtiendo en “lo otro” a los inmigrantes es un desafortunado recordatorio de la visión que del mundo tiene este presidente y es, asimismo, un adelanto de la fea política del miedo que veremos emanar de la Casa Blanca y...
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