Juan is an undocumented immigrant who pays taxes every year. The President who wants to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, not so much. On Tax Day, Juan Escalante, a DACA-recipient and America’s Voice staffer, writes a new piece for Vox, entitled “I’m an undocumented immigrant who pays taxes every year.” Juan’s family came...
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El común denominador de la cobertura de los pasados días es cómo el presidente Donald J. Trump ha cambiado sus posturas en diversos rubros e incluso las ha “suavizado”. Empero, si los vaivenes de Trump suponen reales “cambios” de postura o una “evolución”, si algo se ha mantenido constante...
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ENGLISH Cincinnati Enquirer Is Fairfield woman’s deportation a sign of things to come? By Mark Curnutte April 14, 2017 PJ Media Arresting Illegal Immigrants in Courthouses Violates Their Rights, Say Activists By Nicholas Ballasey April 16, 2017 Associated Press Veteran threatened with deportation seeks pardon for crime April 14,...
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Apr 15, 2017
It was not enough for two South Boston brothers to urinate on a sleeping homeless man in August. They punched him repeatedly, and beat him with a metal pole. They called him a “wetback.” Then they high-fived each other and walked away. On Monday, the brothers — Scott Leader,...
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Two hundred children and advocates rallied in front of the White House yesterday to protest the separation of families and deportation of parents. The advocates, led by the group We Belong Together, come from New York, Colorado, Miami, and Washington, DC. The group from Miami had been caravaning since...
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Ohio Mother Maribel Trujillo-Diaz Faces Imminent Deportation Despite No Criminal Record The case of Maribel Trujillo-Diaz, an Ohio mother, has garnered national attention this week as she faces imminent deportation by ICE. She fled Mexico in 2000, where both her father and brother were kidnapped by a drug cartel. She settled...
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Congress is in recess, which means that town halls this week and next week will offer a glimpse how voters are responding to the Trump Administration’s agenda and how Congress is reacting to it. Two town halls this week in Arizona and Virginia demonstrated that on immigration (along with...
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ENGLISH Huffington Post No Matter What Happens To Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions Will Press His Anti-Immigrant Agenda By Paul Blumenthal April 13, 2017 Miami Herald What activists missed in their fight to legalize undocumented immigrants By Alfonso Chardy April 13, 2017 Daily Kos ‘Incompetent’ ICE halts mistake-riddled reports that...
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A recording of today’s call on Trump’s targeting of victims is available here. Last week, DHS spokesperson David Lapan defended enforcement actions against immigrants who are victims in courthouses, saying: Just because they’re a victim in a certain case does not mean there’s not something in their background that...
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The Sessions speech at the border and the leaked DHS plan make it clear: the nativists are going for broke With his speech at the southwestern border this week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions made it painfully clear that he is seeking to use the full power of the Department of Justice to go...
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