The following is a quote from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, reacting to the appearance and speech of Attorney General Jeff Sessions today at the southwestern border: Attorney General Sessions is grandstanding at the border in an attempt to look tough and scare immigrants. It’s... Continue »
Este día, el Procurador General Jeff Sessions viajará a la frontera sur, donde indudablemente tratará de asegurar que el gobierno de Trump merece el crédito del declive en las detenciones durante marzo. No crea en exageraciones. Recientes altibajos mensuales no captan la verdadera historia. La reducción de las detenciones... Continue »
The Trump Administration is at least temporarily walking back its decision to weekly publish a list of cities and counties it deems too friendly to immigrants. The administration had only gotten around to publishing, it seems, two reports, but said that it would stop after an outcry over misleading and... Continue »
Today, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will travel to the southwestern border, where he will undoubtedly claim that the Trump Administration deserves credit for the decline in apprehensions at the southern border during March. Don’t believe the hype. Border apprehensions declining for 20 years Recent monthly ups and downs... Continue »
Today's must-read top immigration news from around the country.
ENGLISH New York Times Once Routine, Immigration Check-Ins Are Now High Stakes By Liz Robbins April 11, 2017 New York Times Trump Administration Halts Reports on Immigration Cooperation By Ron Nixon April 10, 2017 Politico Report: ‘Favoritism’ and ‘cronyism’ in ICE office By Marianne Levine April 10, 2017 Fusion... Continue »
Yesterday, thousands of people joined a march in downtown Dallas in support of immigration reform and against Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy. The “Dallas Mega March” drew more than 3,000 rally-goers and included human rights activist Martin Luther King III and Congressmen Joaquin Castro and Beto O’Rourke. Marchers walked... Continue »
New York Times editorials from today and this past weekend blast two of the administration’s signature policy proposals: Trump’s extreme vetting proposal for foreign visitors to the U.S., and the wall that Trump promises to build at the U.S.-Mexico border. While the Times is referring to the border wall when... Continue »
For the last few months, Donald Trump has been running a mass deportation agenda that has terrified communities, separated families, and made it clear that all undocumented immigrants in the US are now at risk of deportation. Last week, we published a blog post about four immigrant parents living in different... Continue »
Al presidente Donald Trump le pasa como al pastorcillo en el cuento del lobo. Ha dicho tantas mentiras y falsedades que cuando actúa, según él por “compasión”, es difícil creer en sus verdaderas intenciones. La semana pasada ordenó un ataque con misiles a una instalación militar Siria en respuesta... Continue »
El presidente Donald J. Trump ordenó la lluvia de misiles sobre una base militar siria en respuesta al ataque con gas sarín del presidente de Siria, Bashar al-Asad, sobre civiles, incluyendo niños, y las imágenes lo habrían sacudido al grado de dar un viraje de 180 grados sobre sus... Continue »