Fresh off their blanket opposition to the wildly popular American Rescue Plan that promises to put checks in pockets, vaccinations in arms, people back to work and kids back in school, the GOP is desperate to change the subject. When Dr. Seuss and Mr. Potato Head ran out of...
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Reviews of his political stunt at the border are harsh House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and a GOP delegation went to the border yesterday, the day arrests were made in the death of a Capitol Hill policeman during the January 6th attack on the Capitol. The political nature of...
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is leading a delegation of Republicans to the border today. The goals: to distract attention from the GOP’s failure to support the very popular American Rescue Plan; to desperately flog an uptick at the border of non-white unaccompanied minors as an existential threat to...
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La decisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) de activar a la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA) debería interpretarse como un acto responsable de parte de la administración Biden para atender de manera ordenada, pero sobre todo humanitaria, el aumento en el arribo de menores migrantes...
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As Republicans try to whitewash Trump’s record, stoke fear over Brown kids at the border, and blame the Biden administration, leading observers are pushing back about all of the above. These expert voices add context to the coverage of the border and Biden’s policies toward unaccompanied minors. Jacob Soboroff...
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While the White House is pushing an immigration reform bill with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, it is also advancing executive actions and policy changes to bring an end to some of the most onerous practices of the Trump presidency, including the detention of children and families....
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Mientras la Casa Blanca impulsa su propuesta legislativa de reforma migratoria con una vía a la ciudadanía para los indocumentados, también avanza medidas ejecutivas y cambios de política pública para poner fin a algunas de las prácticas más onerosas de la presidencia de Trump, entre otras la detención de...
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“It is not a ‘crisis’ to follow our laws, do what is right and manage this challenge as best we can. It would be a crisis – a moral crisis – if we did not.” As candidate and as president, Donald Trump and his henchman Stephen Miller portrayed vulnerable...
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DHS Secretary Mayorkas Promises to Provide Restitution and Resettlement Yesterday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas showed that elections matter. He promised to reunite families separated by Donald Trump and Stephen Miller; he rightly called out the previous administration for dismantling the entire immigration and asylum system and doing so...
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The Biden Administration Should Urgently Designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras & Nicaragua Reuters reports that the United Nations World Food Programme released a new study citing that millions across Central America are facing “emergency level food insecurity” as a result of the economic crisis...
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