I am sad to report, Christian Hervis has been deported back to Mexico. Despite our best effort to keep the Hervis family together, ICE moved ahead and removed Christian without hesitation. His U.S. Citizen wife, Viviana, and his three U.S. Citizen children are distraught – as they learned about...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio today is asking a federal judge to suspend President Obama’s executive action until a court ruling can be issued on the constitutionality of the action. In other words, it’s three days before Christmas, and Arpaio is petitioning a federal court for the resumption of deportations that separate families....
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Below is a release from today’s press call: Children and Families Deserve Fair Hearings & Opportunity to Make Their Case for Protection In the wake of reports that the Obama Administration is speeding up the deportations of children fleeing violence and their families without allowing them to make their...
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It’s not often that the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal editorial boards agree on something, but today the two papers agree that the House GOP votes on immigration this week were foolish and shortsighted. Here’s an excerpt from the New York Times, entitled “Congress, Unhinged on...
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Jul 29, 2014
New PRRI Poll: Americans View Central American Kids Fleeing Violence as Refugees Deserving Full & Fair Proceedings; Sonia Nazario Provides Reminder on “The Daily Show” Why We Must “Do the Right Thing” Take five minutes to read this poll and watch this TV clip, and you’ll get a sense...
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The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, with respect to the current Congressional debate regarding Central American children who are seeking safety at our border. As the House Working Group’s recommendations released today make clear, Republicans are hell bent on tying any supplemental...
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The Same Game Plan Used by the Republicans on Every Immigration Debate When it comes to addressing the ongoing child refugee crisis at the border, Republicans and their allies have solidified a strategy of trying to score political points, driving memes that are fact-free, and then ending with a...
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File this epic fail from Arizona under “I’d Be Laughing If It Weren’t So Tragic.” Republican Congressional hopeful and state legislator Adam Kwasman invited himself to a protest in Oracle, where yet another group of adults had gathered to bravely scream at a rumored bus of child refugees that...
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Dec 21, 2012
At NPR today is an analogy on why people find themselves forced to come to the US without papers: Imagine immigration, especially from Latin America, as a two-lane residential street with a 20-mile-an-hour speed limit. Over the decades, it’s grown to an eight-lane superhighway. But the speed limit is...
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