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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According to an internal Department of Homeland Security assessment obtained by the Washington Post, Donald Trump is assembling his immigration enforcement infrastructure – and it sure looks like a mass deportation force. The assessment found 33,000 detention beds where future detainees could be held, looked into ending polygraph and...
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ENGLISH CNN Hard-line anti-illegal immigration advocates hired at 2 federal agencies By Maria Santana April 12, 2017 Mother Jones Jeff Sessions Announces a New Crackdown on Immigrants and “Filth” By Bryan Schatz April 11, 2017 Washington Times Trump’s Justice Department to end ‘catch and release’ immigration policy By Andrea...
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Apr 12, 2017
National and local Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups are calling for Milwaukee police to investigate as a hate crime an attack on a Muslim woman who says a man demanded she remove her hijab and beat her. “You can’t get a clearer hate crime than this,” said Janan Najeeb, president...
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Prosecutors say an Auburn man became enraged when he found out a neighbor was from Mexico, threatening to blow her up and chasing her around her yard with a knife. The Seattle Times reports Travis Senner threatened to blow up his neighbor and chased her around her yard with...
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Today, nearly 1,500 economists sent a letter to Donald Trump and top Congressional leaders highlighting how immigrants contribute to the economy and urging Congress to pass immigration reform. Economists: immigrants contribute to the economy As the letter said: Immigration is one of America’s significant competitive advantages in the global economy....
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