In spite of ICE policy that officers should “generally avoid enforcement actions in courthouses,” The Charlotte Observer reports that ICE arrested a woman and her 16-year-old son outside a courtroom set aside for domestic violence cases. According to the report, the woman, identified as Maria, had moved into a...
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Deportation & Family Separation Dates: Sudan: November 2, 2018 Nicaragua: January 5, 2019 Nepal: June 24, 2019 Haiti: July 22, 2019 El Salvador: September 9, 2019 Honduras: January 5, 2020 Reuters reports that yesterday a Boston judge rejected the Trump administration’s bid to end a lawsuit arguing that the...
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Two days before a court-ordered deadline, it is increasingly obvious that the Trump administration will not reunite all the children they took from their parents. The cruelty and cynicism of this administration seems to know no bounds. Trump and his team mobilized every resource, agent and contractor they could...
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America’s Voice Migrant Children Separated from their Families Faced Abuse, Filthy Conditions, and Inadequate Food and Water ICE Arrests at Courthouses — Including at Courtrooms Dedicated to Protect Domestic Violence Victims — Undermine Equal Justice and Public Safety NEW: Battleground Poll of Latino, Asian American, Native American, African American,...
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Austin, TX – Court filings published today by the Texas Tribune show hundreds of cases of inedible food, cold facilities, and outbreak of diseases in both Customs and Border Patrol holding facilities and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. The piece by Emma Platoff highlights the stories of several...
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Haitian Deportation & Family Separation Date: July 22, 2019 This weekend marked one year until Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti expires after the Trump Administration canceled the program earlier this year. In just one year — on July 22, 2019 — the Trump administration will begin deporting more...
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A collection of recent quotes captures the sweep and implications of Trump and his team taking a wrecking ball to the Statue of Liberty Along the border and throughout the interior of our country, the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown against immigrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and core American ideals is in...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: Texas Tribune Uncovers Rotten Meat, Chicken Pox Outbreaks For Hundreds of Asylum Seekers One Year Mark Until 50,000 Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Holders Will Be Forcibly Deported, Families Separated Without Congressional Action The Scope and Toll of the Trump Administration’s Ongoing Assault on Immigrants, Refugees...
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In the latest episode of our podcast, we spoke with Yaheiry Mora, Director of CASA in Action. Last fall, Republicans tried to use Trumpist, anti-immigrant messaging in the campaign for Virginia governor — and it backfired horribly. That route has also failed to work in numerous races around the country...
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In a blistering review of Kirstjen Nielsen, America’s Voice Digital Director Van Le blasts the DHS Secretary in a must-read post. Check out excerpts from her blog below: Is she a careerist, cowed by Trump, willfully blind, evil — or all of the above? Kirstjen Nielsen, chief of the...
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