The Center for Community Change has a great blog post today at Buzzfeed: Far right-wing anti-immigrant extremists have come out this summer to capitalize on the child refugee crisis happening at the border. As young children flee for their lives, anti-immigrant protesters have attempted to use this moment as...
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As we’ve written about many times before, the US response to children fleeing violence and arriving at our borders has not always been welcoming. In fact, the latest trend among opponents of immigration reform has been to document what “happens” after these children are processed and sent to temporary...
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Tens of thousands of children have fled Central America, seeking safe haven from gang warfare and violence in neighboring countries and in the United States. Unfortunately, the US response to those who have arrived at our borders has been less than welcoming, and children have been screamed at by...
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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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Extremism Now the Rule in Republican Party Washington, DC –It’s no secret that Republicans have rejected their own post-2012 consensus to rebrand their image to Latino voters and reposition themselves on immigration policy. And as fresh anti-immigrant and extremist comments from 2016 GOP contenders and others continue to pile...
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Opponents of immigration reform like to crow about how the law is on their side. They champion their opposition to undocumented immigrants as a matter of the “rule of law” and call attempts at compassion “amnesty.” To read their arguments is to constantly run into statements like “what part...
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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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A San Diego business owner and his family have become the target of death threats after taking in an undocumented family from Guatemala. “You’re a race traitor, you’re a traitor to your country, we’re going to kill you, we’re going to kill your family, we’re coming down there,” Mark...
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Country legend Willie Nelson spoke with Rolling Stone about a number of current events, including the influx of Central American children in his home state of Texas. Here’s what he told Rolling Stone: “I’ve been watching, and the only thing we can do is take care of those kids,...
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