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Top News Associated Press Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship By Mark Sherman June 22, 2017 CNN Trump’s proposed 5-year welfare ban for immigrants is already law By Jeremy Diamond June 22, 2017 CNN Federal judge temporarily blocks deportation of Iraqi Christians By Ellen Kaufman June 22, 2017 Associated... Continue »

America’s Voice ICYMI: Lynn Tramonte: “Eric Lara is an American kid with a loving dad who wants to stay in his life” Senators Harris, Menendez, and Hirono, Immigrants, and Advocates Demand Reduced Funding for President Trump’s Mass Deportation Force Heartbreaking Deportation Cases Explain Why 19 Senators Are Calling for... Continue »

America’s Voice ICYMI: New York Times: “7 Sailors Emerged From Diverse Backgrounds to Pursue a Common Cause” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck and Ex-AG Eric Holder Support California’s Pro-Immigrant and Pro-Public Safety SB54 Bill Trump and Sessions’ Justice Department Considers Supporting Texas SB4,  “Show Me Your Papers” Bill It’s World... Continue »

America’s Voice On Father’s Day, New York Times Chronicles Plight of Father Fighting Deportation John Kelly Thinks Immigration Judges’ Orders Should Be Final, Thomas Homan Thinks Immigrants Get Due Process; Here’s Why Neither is True As ICE Continues Indiscriminate Deportations, More Reminders of Toll on American Families, Communities, and... Continue »

Digby: “Kelly is a genuine Trump guy” In her latest piece for Salon, Heather Digby Parton dives into Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly’s all-too-eager implementation of President Donald Trump’s radical immigration policies. It’s a must read. The article is excerpted below and available online here. Over the weekend,... Continue »

America’s Voice ICYMI: Must Read WSJ Op-Ed on Consequences of Trump Immigration Enforcement on One Small Pennsylvania Town San Antonio Voters Elect City Councilman Ron Nirenberg as Mayor ICYMI: “John Kelly the “grownup”? Forget it — Homeland Security chief turns out to be another Trump zealot” Trump y su... Continue »

America’s Voice ICYMI: David Leopold: “No Secretary Kelly, The Immigration Law Does Not Deport People, You Do” ICYMI: Houston Chronicle: “Out of Time: For a Houston Family, ICE crackdown shatters the good life they knew” ICYMI: The New Yorker: “Why Police Chiefs Oppose Texas’s New Anti-Immigrant Law” 273 Organizations... Continue »

San Antonio and Austin sue Texas over SB 4 This week in Texas, San Antonio and Austin sued the state over the anti-immigrant and discriminatory​ “show me your papers” law, ​SB 4 . The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) formally filed the lawsuit on behalf of San... Continue »

In a new, must read piece, Jamelle Bouie of Slate documents the steady, Trump-inspired rise in hate crimes and violence nationally. His piece on this year’s hate crimes concludes: We are living in an age of political racism and mainstreamed hate, where white supremacists act and organize in the... Continue »

Advocates have not been happy with DHS Secretary John Kelly and his blind implementation of Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Neither are Senate Democrats, according to a new Huffington Post piece by Elise Foley. In January, 37 Senate Democrats voted to confirm Kelly. But what they thought they would get... Continue »