ENGLISH Daily Kos Exactly zero members of Congress from the southwest border support Trump’s wall request By Gabe Ortiz April 24, 2017 Daily Kos WSJ/NBC News polling: Americans’ support for immigration at record level By Gabe Ortiz April 25, 2017 Medium (Op-Ed) At First 100 Days, Why Dreamers Aren’t...
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In the latest installment for the America’s Voice Education Fund (AVEF) series on Trump’s First 100 Days, AVEF Digital Organizer and DACA-recipient Juan Escalante has published a Medium piece explaining why Dreamers are not resting easy in the midst of Trump’s deportation force, despite half hearted attempts from the Administration...
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***PRESS CALL*** Wednesday, April 26 12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT DIAL IN: 888-632-3381; PASSCODE: “FUNDING” PRESS CALL: Activists Behind the Grassroots Push to Oppose the Funding of Trump’s Deportation Force and Border Wall to Keep Up Pressure as Spending Deal Nears In early April, CREDO, United We Dream, ACLU,...
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At the New York Times today is another great piece on the John Tanton network, how anti-immigrant hate groups have Trump as an ally, and the general incredulity (including some from the restrictionists themselves) that anti-immigrant groups have so much power. The John Tanton network, of course, refers to...
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As Congress battles over a spending request, and whether border wall funding, additional deportation agents, and additional detention beds will be included, and as the Department of Homeland Security prepares to release a 90-day DHS progress report on the implementation and deployment of his executive orders, legal experts and...
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The majority of the American people expressed support for immigration, believe immigration helps more than it hurts, oppose the wall and want a path to citizenship It seems the more American people listen to Donald Trump and his Administration rail against immigrants, the more they support the immigrants. The...
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ENGLISH Daily Beast Biggest Murder Spikes Not in Sanctuary Cities By Betsy Woodruff April 25, 2017 Houston Chronicle ICE raids net 95 immigrants in Houston region By Lomi Kriel April 24, 2017 Daily Kos Trump claims he’s ‘not after the Dreamers’ despite the fact he’s gone after Dreamers...
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Jeff Sessions has been angling for a greater role in immigration enforcement for his Department of Justice, and last Friday he fired another salvo, threatening nine jurisdictions with decreased federal funding over their “sanctuary city” policies. Sessions sent letters to the state of California; the cities of Chicago, New Orleans, New...
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What could go wrong? To what lengths will Donald Trump go to fulfill his considerable ego needs? Will he shut down the government unless he gets his way on border wall funding? These are the central questions this week, as Congress returns after recess to face the prospect of...
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With Congress back home during the recent recess, constituents made sure to raise their voices. In her latest for the blog, America’s Voice Education Fund’s Van Le recaps the many efforts of constituents to get answers “on what their members of Congress are doing about immigration reform – and how they’re standing up to Trump’s...
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