English (noticias en español al final de la página): AMERICA’S VOICE TODAY Trump attorney general demands cities get tough on migrants March 28, 2017 TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLAN: DETAILS, REACTIONS, EFFECTS Associated Press Oregon ‘Dreamer’ immigrant to be released on bond March 27, 2017 Washington Post ‘Know your rights’: Clinic...
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Poll after poll shows that the Trump Administration’s radicalism on immigration is at odds with the views of the vast majority of Americans on a range of topics. Why is he pursuing a deportation strategy they fundamentally oppose? Overwhelming and Durable Public Support for Legalization, Not Deportation CNN...
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People Power, Resolute Democrats On Verge of Defeating President Trump’s Budget Request for Border Wall and Deportation Force Last week, another Trump promise crumbled with the crash and burn of the health care bill in the House of Representatives. The keys to victory: people power, Democratic unity and Republican...
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English (noticias en español al final de la página): AMERICA’S VOICE Washington Times Sessions says he’ll punish sanctuaries, cities could lose billions of dollars By Stephen Dinan March 27, 2017 Medium (Op-Ed) ‘Somebody Else’s Babies’ Are Rebuilding Steve King’s Hometown By Matt Hildreth March 28, 2017 TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLAN:...
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Following Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ statements yesterday decrying sanctuary cities and threatening to defund them, immigration attorney David Leopold published ascathing critique in the Boston Globe of Sessions and his scaremongering tactics used to continue “the Trump administration’s campaign of fear and misinformation about immigrants.” According to Leopold, Sessions...
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In the midst of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, a piece by PRI’s The World highlights the work of Virginia Nunes Gutierrez, a community health worker and instructor at The Ohio State University, who started a network in Columbus to help undocumented immigrants when deportations split families. As we highlighted...
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If the Trump White House was hoping that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ anti-immigrant scapegoating and newest threats against so-called “sanctuary cities” would help the Administration turn the page on a rough week and intimidate local leaders and jurisdictions into backing down, they can’t be happy with the reaction and...
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In a new opinion piece for the Washington Post, Radley Balko reviews the attacks launched yesterday by Attorney General Jeff Sessions against local law enforcement agencies that refuse to act as ICE agents. It is an excellent summary of the current state of the debate over so-called “sanctuary cities”...
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English (noticias en español al final de la página): AMERICA’S VOICE New York Times White House to States: Shield the Undocumented and Lose Police Funding By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and CHARLIE SAVAGE March 27, 2017 Huffington Post (Op-Ed) Bill Clinton Laid Groundwork for Trump’s Ugly Immigration Policies By Bill...
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Donald Trump is at it again — continuing his war on immigrants, this time by announcing that he wants to take away funding protecting communities by making immigrant-friendly jurisdictions ineligible for Department of Justice grants. It’s a heavy-handed, intrusive-government move that many are saying is unconstitutional. Other arguments against...
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