Mar 6, 2018
Washington Post: “Gratuitous cruelty by Homeland Security” “What exactly, did a 7-year-old Congolese girl do to the United States to deserve the trauma that has been visited upon her — including forcible separation from her mother — by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and her immigration agents? A U.S....
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“I have a year and a half to do something,” told herself. Boston, MA – A Voice of America piece highlights the work of Doris Reina-Landaverde, a TPS holding 39-year old mother of three U.S. born daughters and custodian at Harvard University, for her co-founding of the Harvard TPS Coalition,...
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AUSTIN– In a new op-ed published in the San Antonio Express News, Andrea Fernandez, a Dreamer and senior at the University of Texas at San Antonio outlined how Trump’s cruel termination of the DACA program, compounded by Congress’ inaction on the Dream Act, has jeopardized her future. Mario Carrillo, Director of...
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As we arrive at Trump’s March 5th deadline with no resolution for Dreamers, DACA recipient and America’s Voice communications manager Juan Escalante writes a must-read HuffPost column on the uncertainty and fear that DACA recipients are facing, reminding us that the crisis facing Dreamers remains urgent and that Congress and President...
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ICE, the Trump Administration’s interior immigration enforcement agency, is out of control, routinely engaging in political retaliation and indiscriminate arrests that are trampling on American values and separating American families. A close observer of the Trump Administration’s immigration extremism, CNN’s Tal Kopan, today writes a piece assessing ICE’s renewed focus on “low hanging...
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Philadelphia, PA — A Billy Penn piece tells the heart-wrenching story of Haitian family of four, three of whom came to the United States in January of 2010 as they were coping with the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. The husband and father, Samuel,* a food security analyst, stayed behind in...
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200k Salvadoran TPS Holders Now Face Deportation A Harvard Crimson piece highlights a rally held yesterday by the Harvard TPS Coalition, where Coalition members – workers from Harvard’s campus unions – sent a loud and clear message to the Trump Administration that workers and immigrants affected by the program’s termination are “Here to Stay,” a...
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ICE, the Trump Administration’s interior immigration enforcement agency, is out of control. “Unshackled” by the President and his enablers, ICE has become an unaccountable, political police force loyal to Donald Trump and his nativist vision rather than an agency that works for the American people and local governments to...
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