A 64-year-old Fort Pierce man who wanted to “run the Arabs out of of our country” remains jailed Saturday on $30,000 bond, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office. Richard Leslie Lloyd  was arrested Friday after he tried to set fire to a Port St. Lucie convenience store, the... Continue »
Trump’s deportation dragnet is catching a whole lot of longtime Americans in its wake, from grandfathers to business owners to young students to workers. Even Dreamers — the young immigrants Donald Trump claims to have such a “heart” for — aren’t necessarily safe. ICE tweets: Deferred action does not... Continue »
A New Jersey grandfather was given a two month stay of deportation today — after a rally that featured Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Cardinal Joseph Tobin, Archbishop of Newark, dozens of other clergy and immigration advocates from PICO National Network. Grandfather of Four and US-based for 25 Years Catalino... Continue »
A man was arrested after an altercation at Al-Aqsa Restaurant on State Street in Salem. Jason Kendall, 52, is accused of attacking a restaurant employee with a pipe and telling him to “go back to your country, terrorist,” court documents state. According to the officer’s report, the victim said Kendall... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
English (noticias en español al final de la página): REVISED TRUMP TRAVEL BAN Associated Press: A Look at Legal Issues With Trump’s Revised Travel Ban March 10, 2017 Associated Press: The Latest: New US Travel Ban Blasted as Like the Original March 9, 2017 Associated Press: FIFA reminds US... Continue »
It’s become clear that Donald Trump and the Department of Homeland Security under Sec. John Kelly are conducting indiscriminate immigration raids that detain everyone ICE can get their hands on — rather than just sweeping up “bad hombres”. Much has been written about how a lack of clear deportation priorities make... Continue »
This week, Trump and DHS Secretary John Kelly floated plans to begin separating parents and children at the border, and outrage ensued. The New York Times described the idea as “cruelty disguised as compassion” while former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote that: Imposing this kind of cruelty on children... Continue »
Trump's deportation force is conducting mass deportations
Despite claims that they are going after “bad hombres,” every day offers new and heartbreaking evidence that the “unshackled” ICE and CBP agents that make up Trump’s deportation force are detaining and deporting non-criminal undocumented immigrants with U.S. citizen children and deep ties to America. Families line up to... Continue »
As we highlighted yesterday, hopes that Secretary Kelly would be a voice of reason on immigration in the Trump administration are fading quickly, as Kelly deploys his agents to aggressively enforce President Trump’s cruel immigration policies. In a new piece, the New York Times editorial board says “Kelly is missing... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
English (noticias en español al final de la página): AMERICA’S VOICE Miami Herald (Opinion): Trump’s office of anti-immigrant propaganda will hurt all immigrants By Andres Oppenheimer March 8, 2017 Tilde Noticias (Op-Ed): Trump/Kelly Extreme Immigration Plans: Separate Parents, Children at the Border By Van Le March 8, 2017 REVISED... Continue »