Trump’s travel ban and immigration crackdown are having wide-ranging effects, from dampening travel into the US to causing labor shortages on US farms to damaging the relationship between local law enforcement agencies and immigrant communities. Today, here’s another roundup of even more consequences of Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. Customs and Border Patrol...
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In response to President Trump’s supplemental funding request for a down payment on his mass deportation plan and a border wall, a broad range of more than 400 organizations have signed on to a letter urging congressional leaders to reject the president’s request. Advocates to Congress: deny “excessive and unnecessary”...
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Across the nation, American families are being torn apart by Trump’s Deportation Force. Following are some recent storylines — the faces of Trump’s mass deportation agenda. More than 100 Senegalese deported, and “no one noticed.” Esther Lee at ThinkProgress highlights the deportation of 130 Senegalese nationals last weekend–“a troubling sixfold...
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A hijab-wearing Muslim woman was breastfeeding her one-month-old child in a Charlotte shopping center parking lot this week when she noticed a man staring at her for several minutes. The man, she said, then reached into the back of his truck, pulled out a long gun and aimed it...
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English (noticias en español al final de la página): TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLAN: DETAILS, REACTIONS, EFFECTS Associated Press Washington Justice to Feds: Keep Immigration Agents Away By Gene Johnson March 22, 2017 Washington Post ‘They’re afraid to come’: University leaders worry Trump policies will deter international scholars By Susan Svrluga...
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As we’ve written about before, Donald Trump and his administration are pursuing a blatantly white nationalist agenda, one that places great weight on white identity politics and is trying to thwart the current trajectory of American demographics. We see this in Trump’s two Muslim bans, designed to keep a whole...
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In a powerful op-ed, Washington, DC-based architect Shalom Baranes recounts his family’s trek to the United States from Libya, and the life they’ve built here. After the September 11th attacks, Baranes was tapped to lead the restoration of the Pentagon, as he notes: As I look back, I wonder why...
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The New York Times writes a timely editorial blasting the Trump Administration and ICE for their “reckless shame game” — their ongoing attempts to publicly scapegoat immigrants and the communities that welcome them. According to the Times, the Trump Administration’s attempts to claim they are acting in the interest of...
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English (noticias en español al final de la página): TRUMP’S DEPORTATION PLAN: DETAILS, REACTIONS, EFFECTS Los Angeles Times Immigrant advocates spread the word: Be prepared, be self-reliant, know your rights By Esmeralda Bermudez March 23, 2017 WOSU Undocumented In Columbus And Planning For The Worst By Esther Honig March...
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Donald Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on a mass-deportation crackdown that would tear immigrant families and communities apart. The billions that he proposes to spend would be taxpayer money, partly contributed by immigrants themselves and partly contributed by the vast majority of Americans who don’t support Trump’s...
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