Teresa Gomez, a Salvadoran woman in her 20s, and Margaret Ashong, a grandmother from Ghana, endured regular beatings, threats and insults by the fathers of their children. Like many battered immigrant women in the Washington area, they mostly suffered in silence, fearful that if they went to the police...
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It has been nearly four years since the May 2008 ICE raid at the Agriprocessors kosher meat packing facility in Postville, Iowa. The raid, which was the largest worksite enforcement raid in U.S. history, resulted in the conviction and deportation of more than 300 undocumented immigrants, the majority of...
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The hot new immigration buzzword these days is "self-deportation," also known as "attrition through enforcement," and the Immigration Policy Center has a new report this week explaining the full, frightening reality of what it is.
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During an NBC GOP presidential debate last month, Mitt Romney drew laughter from some in the crowd when he revealed that his plan for immigration reform amounts to "self-deportation, which is people decide that they can do better by going home because they can't find work here."
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Mitt Romney's "self-deportation" strategy found another critic over the weekend: John McCain. Yesterday, Al Punto's Jorge Ramos asked McCain about Romney's self-deportation plan. McCain doesn't approve.
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Last November, the Applied Research Center produced a report, Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System, revealing the devastating impact deportations have on families. This week, ARC's Rinku Sen appeared on ABC's Nightline to discuss the real world impact of the deportation policy.
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In an op-ed today in the New York Times, Antonio Alarcon, a 17 year old DREAMer, describes living life without his parents who "self-deported" to Mexico. As he explains, "self-deportation" is a term that Mitt Romney made popular in a Florida GOP debate.
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"This American Life," the New York Times Lede blog and the Rachel Maddow show this week both put out pretty amusing historical pieces on the concept of self-deportation and its origins as a hysterical, satirical joke.
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Ever since Mitt Romney issued his support for "self-deportation," a policy also known as "attrition through enforcement," voices from around the country have responded by highlighting just how unworkable and extreme a policy like this would be.
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The dining hall workers had been at Pomona College for years, some even decades. For a few, it was the only job they had held since moving to the United States. Then late last year, administrators at the college delivered letters to dozens of the longtime employees asking them...
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