“My husband tortured me,” she said simply. She said he regularly choked her until she passed out. He would cut himself and make her drink his blood. She showed me the fingers he had broken. She raised her blue uniform to reveal two letters — the first two of...
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This week, Vox’s Dara Lind is out with a new exclusive on a joint, must-read study from Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project (ASAP) and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC). The study shows that, despite the administration’s claims, Trump and his agents do not have to indefinitely detain immigrant families. It is legal...
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America’s Voice By Decree, Jeff Sessions and Kirstjen Nielsen Unilaterally Gut Asylum in America ICYMI: Dara Lind: “A New Study Blows up Trump’s ‘Catch-and-Release’ Myth” English Santa Fe New Mexican (Editorial) Welcoming the strangers among us July 11, 2018 Houston Chronicle (Editorial) Right to work? Not if you’re an...
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After enormous public and political pressure, President Trump issued an executive order (E.O.) that purportedly put an end to family separation. However, since that E.O. was signed three weeks ago, only a few families separated by the Trump Administration have been reunited, even families with infants and toddlers and...
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As the nation reels from Trump’s family separation policy, Vox’s Dara Lind cautions that — following Judge Dolly Gee’s Monday ruling — the Trump administration is gearing up to separate families again. As she explains: In some cases, Monday night’s ruling says, the government can force parents to make...
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Countdown to Somalia TPS Decision Deadline: 8 Days In an article for Blavity, Maya J. Boddie writes about the terrifying reality more than 300,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders are facing after the Trump administration ended the program: leaving their 273,000 U.S. citizen children behind when they’re forcibly deported...
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America’s Voice Despite Public Outrage, an Executive Order Purportedly Ending Family Separation and Two Court Decisions, the Trump Administration Remains Intent on Mass Family Detention and Separation ICYMI: Trump Administration May Start Separating Families, Again ICYMI: Blavity, “Here’s How The Trump Administration Could Potentially Separate 200,000 U.S. Born Kids...
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Yet Trump administration warns of more family separation and family detention The Trump administration suffered another defeat at the hands of a federal judge, a decision that should pave the way for asylum-seekers and their children to be released into the community, into alternatives to detention projects that have...
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USA Today is out with a scathing editorial condemning the Trump administration’s cruelty and incompetence with respect to the separation of families, stating that with respect to their speedy reunification, failure is not an option. As the editorial notes: It turns out that the number of separated children is...
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America’s Voice Following Yesterday’s Flores Decision, the Simple Solution is Prosecutorial Discretion and Alternative Forms of Detention Judge orders US to reunite families separated at border within 30 days USA Today: “Family separation combines cruelty, incompetence” English Boston Globe President Trump’s caustic racial comments dovetail with harsh policies By...
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