Last year, the Biden administration did the right thing by issuing a rule that expanded ACA coverage to nearly 130,000 uninsured DACA recipients. Not only do Dreamers pay billions in tax dollars every year to help fund federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, it makes public health sense...
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The reimplementation of family detention by the Trump administration means more cruelty — and more money for private prisons The Trump administration is bringing back the detention of migrant families, a costly and unnecessary practice that has been condemned as “cruel and inhumane” by immigrant and human rights advocates...
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Mar 10, 2025
Some of the ugliest acts from Donald Trump’s first term were directed at the most vulnerable: children. These attacks included the shameful policy of ripping 5,500 weeping migrant children, including nursing infants and toddlers, from the arms of their loved ones. Despite the established traumatic effects of these policies...
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This week, a GOP group supported by top Republican leaders made it clear that it believes that if you are non-white, you are simply not a “real” American. On Wednesday, following Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s (D-NY) powerful Spanish language response to Donald Trump’s unhinged, anti-immigrant and lie-riddled speech joint address...
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Mar 5, 2025
One of the most significant moments from Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress did not happen on the dais, but instead in front of it. Just minutes into his unhinged, anti-immigrant and lie-riddled speech, Texas Rep. Al Green stood up with cane in hand to interrupt Trump’s address and...
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Tonight, Donald Trump will address the nation at a joint session of Congress, although it appears a significant number of Democrats won’t sit in the House chamber to hear his rant. And it will be a racist, xenophobic rant. How do we know? Well, it’s Trump. But also, we...
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Actor and activist Zoë Saldaña paid tribute to her immigrant roots during an emotional Oscar acceptance speech Sunday night, honoring the hard work of her immigrant parents and dedicating her win to her immigrant grandmother. “My grandmother came to this country in 1961,” she said during remarks that drew...
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America needs the work and skills of immigrants, particularly during times when essential industries like healthcare, childcare, and construction are facing critical labor shortages. In Georgia, which has been experiencing “significant” shortages in some of these areas in recent years, the GOP-led state legislature is looking to address this...
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The U.S. House was in recess last week, which means that House Republicans were in their districts to get a glimpse of how their constituents feel about the GOP’s extreme agenda, which has included the purging of dedicated civil servants and more recently a proposal to gut Social Security,...
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Washington, DC — A disturbing report in Politico notes a “group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of ‘processing camps’ on military bases, a private fleet of 100...
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