“Racial incitement is the animating electoral strategy of a sitting President and his party.” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: The beating heart of Trumpism is and has always been racism and xenophobia. Now, Trump is turbocharging it in his desperate...
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America’s Voice Immigration Experts Discuss Trump Admin’s New Attempt to Ban Asylum Trump Administration’s Latest Illegal Attack on Asylum La estrategia racial de Trump del “ellos contra nosotros” está más viva que nunca Frank Sharry: Racism, Nativism and Stoking White Grievance Will Be the “Beating Heart” of Trump’s 2020...
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Yesterday, Americans all across the country protested the horrific conditions migrant children and families are currently facing in immigration detention centers at the border. Public outcry has been simmering for weeks as children have died, while the Trump Administration argued that soap and toothbrushes aren’t necessary to meet basic safety...
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In a new must-read explainer, Washington Post’s Philip Bump reveals that many of the undocumented immigrants targeted by this weekend’s raids may be deported without having received due process, despite claims from the Trump administration that they have. Bump cites a recent report from Syracuse University’s TRAC program, “which...
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According to the New York Times, “Nationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday…The officials said ICE agents were targeting at least 2,000 immigrants who have been ordered deported — some as a result of their failure to appear in court…The...
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English The Guardian Immigration raids to take place across US starting Sunday By Amanda Holpuch July 11, 2019 Associated Press Trump Administration Plans Immigration Enforcement Operation July 11, 2019 Roll Call Democrats denounce immigration raids slated for weekend By Camila DeChalus July 11, 2019 The Wall Street Journal ICE...
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New York, NY — The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) today joined the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), and Public Counsel in suing the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to stop the deportations of thousands of asylum seekers...
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Nowhere are the cruel and deplorable actions of the Trump administration more outstanding than in the abhorrent conditions of immigration detention facilities holding children and families. Yesterday, in a powerful House Oversight Committee hearing, Yazmin Juárez bravely gave a heartbreaking testimony of the death of her one year old...
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A recording of the call is available here. Earlier today, immigration experts from across the southern border region gathered on a press call to discuss A New Border Vision, a framework for positive and compassionate action that moves us from the myopic and harmful enforcement of the last few decades...
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Having Created Mass Failure at the Border, Now He Wants to Add to the Chaos The New York Times and others are reporting that neighborhood immigration raids will begin Sunday. Trump threatened to launch massive immigration raids in the U.S. after July 4 and now in cities across America,...
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