Washington, DC — On a virtual event held today (recording available here), leading legal experts and advocates gathered to assess the details and implications of several key immigration storylines, including the Mahmoud Khalil case and the chilling larger implications for weaponizing immigration law to quash free speech; the latest...
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Washington, DC —This week alone, by using new levers of state power and old, inapplicable statutes, the Trump administration has: Initiated deportation proceedings against a green card holder for protesting on a college campus – a clear attempt to weaponize immigration law to chill political dissent and free speech...
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SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH: THE LARGER, CHILLING SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAHMOUD KHALIL CASE The Trump administration’s alarming arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. Notably, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by...
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Washington, DC – The arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio – “immigration...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, leading Senate and House Democrats joined with the ACLU and the Brennan Center for Justice to issue a letter to President Trump, condemning the administration’s reliance on the “legally and factually unfounded” and dangerous “invasion” conspiracy theory as the justification to trample on “civil liberties...
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Washington, DC – The Trump administration continues to intensify its attacks on immigrants and refugees, aiming to stoke fears and make the lives of immigrant families so unbearable that they “self deport;” purging long-settled immigrants through unsparing detentions and deportations and laying groundwork for broader random mass deportations; and...
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Washington, DC — As America’s Voice has been highlighting in our new “At What Cost?” campaign, all Americans will pay a high price because of Trump and Republicans’ chaotic and cruel immigration agenda and mass deportation obsessions. As their early enforcement actions underscore, and plans to turbocharge their current...
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Washington, DC – The Trump administration recently restarted family immigration detention, holding migrant parents and children at ICE detention centers in Karnes County and Dilley Texas. This dangerous decision marks a troubling return to the detention of families seeking asylum and safety in the United States. In response, Vanessa...
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