Trump Obsession Against Immigrants Threatens Public Safety as Hurricanes Bear Down The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Managing Director of America’s Voice, regarding Politico’s Ted Hesson scoop that, as hurricane season commenced, the Trump administration drained FEMA’s response-and-recovery fund of $10 million to increase their capacity to...
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English WZZM ICE: Deaf Detroit immigrant from Nigeria must leave By Niraj Warikoo September 11, 2018 Medium (Op-Ed) As the GOP Revs Up its “Divide and Distract” Strategy, How Should Democrats and Progressives Respond? By Frank Sharry September 11, 2018 MSNBC Trump admin moved millions of dollars from FEMA...
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It’s Time for an Independent Immigration Court Yesterday, Attorney General Sessions welcomed 44 new immigration judges with an ominous warning: “Immigration Judges conduct designated proceedings ‘subject to such supervision and shall perform such duties as the Attorney General shall prescribe.’” In other words, Sessions reminded immigration judges that...
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Nation Recoils at Trump’s Immigration Radicalism A new editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times, pivoting off recent remarks by Trump official Mick Mulvaney, is entitled, “Like the way America’s going? Not when families have been torn apart.” It captures the disconnect between Trump administration happy talk and voters’ anger at...
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America’s Voice Frank Sharry: “As the GOP Revs Up its ‘Divide and Distract’ Strategy, How Should Democrats and Progressives Respond? PETITION: Tell Kobach to reject white nationalist money! Sessions’ Assault on the Rule of Law in Immigration Court New CNN Poll: GOP Embrace of Trump on Immigration May Come...
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Last week the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and ACT for America, both listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center and both with ties to the Trump Administration, held overlapping conferences in Washington D.C. Despite advocates’ efforts to warn members of Congress away from participating,...
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Attack on Flores Settlement Cruel, Inhumane and Unacceptable The New York Times and Washington Post editorial boards have responded to the Trump administration’s latest attacks on immigrant kids. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Department of Homeland Security (DHS), proposes to eviscerate protections for children enshrined in the Flores Settlement Agreement...
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In spite of mounting cases of harm and abuse of children in immigration detention, the Trump administration formally proposed a regulation last week to indefinitely detain children under weaker standards and conditions than currently exist. The regulation, if finalized, would replace the Flores Settlement Agreement (FSA) which protects children...
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America’s Voice Two Hate Conferences Came to Washington, D.C. Last Week; Here’s Who Attended “No esperes a que la política te agreda para entender la importancia de votar” Boricuas e inmigrantes: “Ellos son nosotros” En la Florida Central se forjan alianzas para movilizar votantes Washington Post and New York...
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Sep 8, 2018
Originally published July 9, 2018; updated September 9, 2018 Since the Trump Administration began, Donald Trump has implemented policies keeping would-be immigrants out of the U.S. and kicking the ones already here out. One way he has accomplished the latter is through raids — workplace and location-based raids that...
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