This weekend, Eli Saslow of the Washington Post profiled an Ohio family facing permanent separation due to our nation’s failed immigration policies. The article, “‘Are you alone now?’ After raid, immigrant families are separated in the American heartland,” is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand how children and...
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On Saturday, June 30th, hundreds of thousands attended rallies in cities and towns across the nation to protest the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their parents. We recap events across the country big and small in our blog, excerpted below. Open this link to see photos and...
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America’s Voice Transformar la indignación en votos Families Should Be Reunited in Freedom ICYMI: HuffPost, “Trump May Deport 1,200 People To Yemen As The U.S. Bombs The Country” 6000+ Ohioans Protested Family Separations, Raids, Deportations “Are you alone now?”: Washington Post Sunday Front-Page Story Reveals Immigration Raids’ Impact on...
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Today, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across the nation in #FamiliesBelongTogether rallies that blasted the Trump Administration’s policies of separating migrant children and families. Over 780 events, organized by Families Belong Together, were held in all 50 states and elsewhere around the world. Attendees were asked to wear...
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The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, is set in Brownsville, Texas, where advocates led by the ACLU held a mass rally this week outside of a courthouse where migrants are being prosecuted. (Interviews start at 7:00.) So much continued to happen in immigration news this...
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“Plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum” In a must-read exclusive, Vox’s Dara Lind reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has drafted a regulation that would bar most of those fleeing horrific violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from being recognized as refugees in the...
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Follow @BelongCle Americans are outraged at the fact that our own government is separating families at the border. The photos, videos, and audio recordings that document our own government’s abject cruelty have fueled unprecedented levels of donations from ordinary Americans and inspired more than 700 rallies across the country...
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Yesterday, a federal judge in Chicago, Manish Shah, ruled that the Trump administration should stop making excuses and start reunifying families – in the case at hand, the mother Lydia Souza and her 9-year old son Diego. As the New York Times wrote: Noting in his ruling that there...
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Cleveland “Families Belong Together” Rally Calls on US Government to Respect and Protect Family Unity in All Forms Follow @BelongCle Link: http://bit.ly/2N7xKsZ Cleveland, OH – Americans are outraged at the fact that our own government is separating families at the border. The primal pain of separating a parent from...
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America’s Voice Listen to the “A is for America” Podcast from Brownsville, Texas Dara Lind of Vox on the Trump Administration’s Plan to Gut Asylum Immigrant Youth Leaders & Children’s Health Experts Among Other Dynamic Speakers at Saturday’s “Families Belong Together” Rally in Cleveland As The Trump Administration Drags...
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