Families and Communities Across the U.S., Including D.C., Will Be Devastatingly Affected by Expiration of TPS TPS Expiration Dates: El Salvador, 9/9/2019 Haiti, 7/22/2019 Honduras, 1/5/2020 Nepal, 6/24/2019 Nicaragua, 1/5/2019 South Sudan, 5/2/2019 In her article for the Washington City Paper, Cassidy Jensen takes an in-depth look into what...
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As Congress Takes Recess and Children Head Back to School- We Must Not Forget About the Orphaned Immigrant Children Ahead of tomorrow’s status conference with Judge Sabraw, a reminder of where we stand: fourteen days after the family separation deadline and 572 children are still separated from their parents...
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In an opinion piece in USA Today, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton again strained to justify his attacks on young immigrants and his relentless drive to strip them of their protections provided by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Paxton and six other Republican attorneys general have sued...
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In a piece for the Washington Post, David Nakamura highlights the inefficacy of Trump’s cruel family separation policies. New data released yesterday bolster a recent report by the Center of American Progress showing that “neither family detention nor family separation policies have deterred families from coming to the United...
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At a time when some pundits are attempting to divine a nonexistent civil war on the left, it seems to us that the divide on the right is of greater consequence. With the GOP now the Party of Trump, there is still an active debate between those embracing the...
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America’s Voice Frank Sharry to the U.S. Senate: Reject the Nomination of Ronald Vitiello to Head ICE Workplace Raids: The New Frontier for Family Separation Facing Judge Hanen, Dreamers Stand Strong ICYMI: Texas Attorney General Paxton Again Tries to Justify His Continued Attacks Against Young Immigrants WaPo: “The Trump...
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It’s Time for an Independent Immigration Court On Tuesday, Tal Kopan of CNN reported that an immigration judge assigned to a case for many years was replaced with another judge from Washington who quickly and with little process ordered the deportation of an immigrant. Kopan explains: The unusual use...
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A recording of the call is available here. Cleveland, OH – The Trump Administration’s manufactured “family separation” crisis at our nation’s southern border has captured headlines and outraged Americans in Ohio and nationwide. On the same day that the government released updated numbers showing that its policies have...
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The ongoing failure of the Trump Administration to meet the court-imposed deadline to reunite all 3,000 children they forcibly separated at the border is just most current development in the Administration’s zero-tolerance policy. Let’s remember: the Trump Administration has been discussing separating child migrants from their parents since almost...
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Lind Explains DACA Legal Battles, Including Today’s Hanen Hearing Dara Lind at Vox breaks down the complex chain of events regarding DACA and its legal fate. Today, Judge Andrew Hanen of Texas, known as the Joe Arpaio of the federal judiciary, hears a case brought to him by Texas...
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