Last week, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan claimed that horrific detention conditions for children and adults described by the media at an El Paso border station were “unsubstantiated.” And, last month McAleenan told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he is hearing only about minor...
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For some reason, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan is viewed in some quarters as a more trusted voice of reason than other Trump Administration DHS and immigration officials. Yet two new reports detail that McAleenan has been lying through his teeth to justify the Trump Administration’s extremism. A new...
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This is What House Democrats Were Fighting to End in the Border Supplemental Funding Bill This Week At the same time that House Democrats were fighting to keep key provisions in a border funding bill to protect kids from deteriorating detention conditions, detained children, parents, doctors, and lawyers submitted...
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“The onus is now on the President and his party. It’s their strategy and it’s their responsibility.” “Democrats, when the next spending bill comes forward, fight them and not each other; ensure that accountability, guardrails and requirements are written into the law.” Yesterday, the House passed the Senate version...
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“The immigration policies of this administration exacerbate the dangers that these migrants face, with often fatal consequences” Maribel Hastings y David Torres The image of the young Salvadoran father with his little 23-month old girl embracing his back, drowned and face down in the waters of the Río Grande,...
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With almost every single Democrat supporting and almost every single Republican opposing, the House of Representatives passed a funding bill to address the refugee and humanitarian crisis at the border last night on a vote of 230-195. [The Republican- controlled Senate seems poised to reject this bill in a...
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Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice issued the following statement: We are in the midst of a human rights crisis that should shake us to our core. We are pursuing cruelty as a matter of policy. This administration, in our name and with our tax dollars, is careening...
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We Must Protect Children and Refugees Even as We Try and Check Trump’s Excesses As Congress debates the responsible way forward to address the humanitarian and refugee crisis that the Trump Administration’s failed vision has created, the following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice,...
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When it comes to immigration policy, sometimes we all need to close Twitter and ignore Trump’s ongoing bluster, threats, and pronouncements; skip past the White House palace intrigue stories about leaks and infighting; and stay focused on what’s real and happening in our name – the Trump team’s ongoing...
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On the one year anniversary since Donald Trump purported to “end” his cruel family separation policy, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg issues a salient warning that he “bets we’ll stop caring about migrant kids.” Goldberg’s warning was echoed by Trump’s own audaciously false claim that he reunited the...
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