California’ Gov. Jerry Brown has requested, and lawmakers have approved, $3 million in state money to provide help for children fleeing violence. Some 3,900 of them live in the state, and officials hope the money can start going out in two or three weeks. Making the money available is...
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The American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and National Immigration Law Center today sued the federal government over its current practice of denying a fair deportation process to Central American children and families who have fled violence. The groups filed the...
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Think Progress’ headline today is horrific: “Five Children Murdered After They Were Deported Back To Honduras.” That’s right: in the last few years, tens of thousands of children have fled three Central American countries — Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala — places so violent that they are statistically twice as...
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Two weeks ago, House Republicans passed a border supplemental bill that would’ve undercut due process for Central American children coming to the US border by expediting their removals, not necessarily after a fair hearing. But according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, most Americans say children fleeing violence should be able to stay...
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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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House Republicans are poised to ONCE AGAIN vote to end DACA and deport DREAMers. Below are some of the statements being released: United We Dream’s Lorella Praeli: Apparently, exploiting the child refugee issue by blaming DACA and Dreamers and trying to intimidate President Obama from taking further executive action...
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Below is a press statement from Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) about the House GOP border bill, which end DACA and lead to the deportation of DREAMers: Over 600,000, young people raised in the United States, who came forward and applied for DACA will now be turned back into undocumented...
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So this is one of the more disturbing responses to the children crossing the border. Al Jazeera America inteviewed Ku Klux Klan members in North Carolina, who talked about their goal of a “white homeland” and called for a “shoot to kill” law in order to take care of the influx...
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How horrible is the revised border bill that the House GOP will attempt to pass today? Horrible enough that the likes of Steve King, Michele Bachmann, and Louie Gohmert seem positively giddy to be voting for it. Note the tweet below suggesting that this is the first time leadership...
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Jul 31, 2014
#TeaPartyNation RT @ChadPergram When McCarthy told Hoyer on floor it was possible there could be more votes, House chamber erupted boos. — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 31, 2014 chaos here. they told members no more votes. many left, then house ldrs called everyone back b/c of gop complaints they...
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