Trump Administration’s Cruelty and Ineptitude is Unacceptable According to press reports, 1,442 of 2,551 children taken from their parents by the Trump administration have been reunited as of late yesterday.  Up against a court order to reunite all the children with their parents by yesterday’s deadline, the government reunited 57% of them.... Continue »
Three things to do: bring deported parents back to America; reunite families one and all; take decisions regarding “eligibility” away from the administration that victimized these families We’ve reached the court-imposed deadline day for the Trump administration to reunite all of the nearly 3,000 children they’ve separated from their... Continue »
A new CNN article exposes the fact that the Trump administration is more interested in exploiting fears of MS-13 to advance their political agenda than in actually destroying this gang. As CNN’s Tal Kopan reports: The Trump administration was warned that ending US protections for more than 300,000 Central... Continue »
Two days before a court-ordered deadline, it is increasingly obvious that the  Trump administration will not reunite all the children they took from their parents. The cruelty and cynicism of this administration seems to know no bounds. Trump and his team mobilized every resource, agent and contractor they could... Continue »
In an deep dive piece for Vox, Alexia Fernández Campbell captures how Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) tore into a top Trump administration official — Kathy Kraninger, Trump’s pick for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — for her role in the family separation scandal. According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director... Continue »
House and Senate GOP Leadership Linked to New Immigration Attack Ads – Latest Reminder that Desperate Republicans Are Running on Division In Hopes of Distracting Voters The Republican embrace of immigrant-bashing not limited to President Trump and Rep. Steve King (R-IA). Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell... Continue »
Frank Sharry: “The only bad actors that should be separated from these kids are the federal officials who cruelly and coldly caused this crisis” The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, in response to reports that the federal government is deciding which children... Continue »
It’s increasingly clear that the Trump administration is unable and unwilling to meet a Tuesday deadline, imposed by a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush, to reunite 102 children younger than 5 years old who remain separated from their parents. Not long ago, Trump administration officials reassured Congress... Continue »
The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, in response to today’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold President Trump’s Muslim ban. We are deeply disappointed with today’s Supreme Court decision. Let’s not kid ourselves. This is a Muslim ban. It... Continue »
The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, on where we are today with respect to the family separation crisis: Yes, Americans rose up and forced the President to step back. No, we are not close to being done with this crisis. Yes, the... Continue »