Jan 13, 2025
Donald Trump selected former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his latest nominee for U.S. Attorney General, following his disastrous pick of disgraced former Congressman Matt Gaetz for the position. Bondi was the state’s attorney general from 2011 to 2019, and has more recently been affiliated with the America...
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Jan 10, 2025
Donald Trump has nominated America First Policy Institute (AFPI) founder and former Trump administration official Brooke Rollins as his pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees our nation’s food and farm supply, nutritional programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and houses the U.S. Forest...
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Washington, DC — As the “Laken Riley Act” moves toward a procedural vote in the Senate, key voices are highlighting how the public description of the bill and its supposed focus are dangerously mismatched to the actual legislative text. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director...
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House and Senate Republicans eagerly sought to pass anti-immigrant legislation at the start of 2025 before Donald Trump was sworn into office. Reviving a bad bill introduced last year meant to jumpstart mass roundups and detentions, further scapegoat immigrants, and empower zealous Attorneys General adding to the chaos of...
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This week marked the first special elections of 2025 with legislative races in Virginia. These first results in the wake of the November 2024 election can help provide some clarity to the current political moment. Democrats won two key races and will hold their majorities in the Virginia State...
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Donald Trump nominated former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott for the new commissioner of the parent agency Customs and Border Protection (CBP), seeking the return of one of the most ardent defenders of the border policies from his first administration. Scott, a career official who was promoted by the...
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Donald Trump and his incoming team have confirmed they’re moving forward with costly and “bloody” mass deportations of millions of undocumented immigrants as their signature policy of the second term. They are also getting the green light from the Republican-controlled Congress, as Sen. Lindsey Graham put it in a...
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Washington, DC — There is a daily drumbeat of coverage about the growing consensus and fear that Donald Trump’s signature policy agenda – promoting mass deportations, stripping protections from millions of immigrants here legally and threatening massive tariffs related to immigration flows – will hit key American industries and...
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Donald Trump’s mass deportation team has been taking shape, and it is alarming, as expected. Trump has announced that he has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as his nominee for secretary of Homeland Security, joining noted white nationalist Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Thomas Homan to...
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Throughout the past week, families and friends gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving, express gratitude, and share delicious dishes. For some of our immigrant neighbors, this was their first time celebrating this uniquely American tradition that has refugee origins of its own. In Philadelphia, 17-year-old Carmen Hernandez was among neighbors celebrating...
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