Students are facing suspension and other disciplinary actions for standing up for their peers, communities, and rights Thousands of high school students across dozens of states have been standing up for their classmates, communities, and values by walking out of their classrooms in protest of the federal government’s mass...
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Neither of them should have been detained in the first place A pair of current and former students who were abducted by mass deportation agents in separate incidents at the start of the Trump administration and had remained detained since have finally won their freedom, including a high school...
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The DHS nominee made clear he “would remain loyal to Mr. Trump and carry out his promise to crack down on illegal immigration and ramp up arrests,” as The New York Times reported The man on point to lead some of the most violent and out-of-control government agencies is...
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The administration is also detaining teen mariachi musicians instead of ending its shutdown and agreeing to common-sense reforms reining in ICE The Trump administration’s partial DHS shutdown has been responsible for travelers waiting in TSA lines for more than three hours, leaving airports to warn passengers to arrive for...
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DHS has admitted to kicking out nearly 90 DACA recipients and detaining 261 others despite long-standing protections shielding them from deportation The U.S. government made a promise to the hundreds of thousands of long-settled immigrants who’ve applied and been approved for the DACA program: if you follow the rules,...
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One of the tests of any nation is how it treats some of its most vulnerable: children. But on that front, under this current administration, our nation is failing. Just last week, federal immigration officials deported a baby who had spent half of his life in ICE custody, the...
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We want to shine a light on the many American citizens and immigrant neighbors who have been targeted by the president and were invited as guests by lawmakers. Although they differ in where they live, their age, occupation, and citizenship status, they all share one thing in common: their...
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“Recent polling shows majorities of Americans believe Trump’s ICE operations go too far, recognize mass deportation makes us less safe and strongly support ICE and CBP reforms and accountability” During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, Donald Trump launched into the same old tired and racist diatribes that...
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As we await President Trump’s second State of the Union address, it’s clear that the state of the immigration debate is in a very different place than a year ago. Americans are witnessing in real time what an inhumane enforcement-only approach looks like—and they’re repulsed by it. The cruelty,...
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The federal government’s anti-immigrant obsession is making us poorer, more lawless and less safe The Trump administration and its Congressional enablers rejected a number of common-sense reforms that would begin to rein in the growing number of abuses against the American people by our own federal immigration agents. At...
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