This unprecedented allocation of taxpayer money could go to helping working families all across America, on everything from education, hunger, housing, healthcare, and the environment Just think of how much our country could get done with $170 billion in federal funding. Hungry schoolkids fed with nutritious meals. Unhoused Americans...
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The country with the Statue of Liberty deprived us of our liberty without any kind of evidence,” said one formerly detained man “Cemetary of the living dead.” “I practically felt like an animal.” “It looked like a cage.” “We felt dead.” This is how men who were unjustly purged...
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Six years later, the rhetoric that inspired a deadly terror attack in El Paso hasn’t gone away. Instead, it’s been mainstreamed by Republicans For El Pasoans, this past August 3rd was a tragic day of remembrance. On that day in 2019, their community was terrorized by a man who...
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Washington, DC — As lawmakers head home for the August congressional recess, Republicans are feeling the heat over mass deportations and the political and economic costs on display. These existing human and economic costs are set to worsen, due to the massive increase in ICE funding in the reconciliation...
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What began as a dinner for a group of friends is now a volunteer-led non-profit that tackles food insecurity by helping feed hundreds of Asian elders, many of them immigrants, across New York City. In the process, Heart of Dinner also boosts the local economy by partnering with local...
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On everything from immigration policy and national security to our personal freedom, the first six months of the second Trump administration has unleashed a wrecking crew of chaos and dysfunction across our country (and the world). At the same time, it reveals the rank hypocrisy from Trump and members...
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Lawmakers note that bad actors have also exploited ICE’s anonymity and impersonated agents in order to commit serious crimes, including sexual assault and robbery U.S. Representatives Robert Garcia (CA-42) and Summer Lee (PA-12) are among the latest voices to condemn the Trump administration’s terrifying pattern of masked immigration arrests,...
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While masked abductions and festering detention camps may thrill Stephen Miller, the rest of us are recoiling Americans are watching the chaos and cruelty of Donald Trump’s bloody mass deportation agenda – and they are hating it. Just look at a slew of recent polling numbers from this month...
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One visiting member, U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, called conditions at the detention camp abhorrent. “When those doors opened .. what I saw made my heart sink.” Last week, lawmakers were finally permitted to inspect the new Everglades detention camp in Florida, after being initially blocked from entering the site...
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The late civil rights icon was arrested in defense of immigrant rights in 2013: “We cannot rest, we cannot be satisfied until we have comprehensive immigration reform,” he said at the time The late John Lewis, congressman from Georgia and civil right icon, was no stranger to what he...
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