“We see no evidence that employers increase wages to attract U.S.- born workers to fill these jobs in the face of immigration enforcement,” one study said Donald Trump has his priorities — and it’s not any of the millions of Americans struggling to pay for daily living expenses, like...
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One 2019 study from the Migration Policy Institute found that between 2001 and 2013, almost 300 foreign-born soldiers died in service of their adoptive country José Gutierrez is not a name remembered by most Americans, but it should be. The Marine Corps. Lance corporal – believed to have been...
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DACA recipients and loved ones told lawmakers during a Senate forum that the administration’s mass deportation agenda has left their families in “constant fear” Maria de Jesus Estrada Juárez – the DACA recipient who was wrongfully separated from her U.S. citizen daughter this past February despite holding valid deportation...
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Most Americans strongly oppose the mass deportation uglinesses terrorizing their communities and neighbors. Lawmakers should remember that amid the reconciliation fight Congressional Republicans and the White House continue to careen forward with plans to seize more than $70 billion of your hard-earned money to ensure that Donald Trump and...
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“Across the U.S., A/PI adults of all ethnicities and statuses are feeling the weight of anti-immigrant policies and political rhetoric” This May marks Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month, which honors the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander neighbors who have enriched America’s history...
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Washington, DC — This week, congressional Republicans are careening forward with their budget reconciliation bill, seeking to deliver more than $70 billion for mass deportation, on top of the more than $170 billion windfall for immigration enforcement just last year. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive...
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None of the administration’s priorities do anything to help struggling Americans with their bills This week, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) signaled that the $1 billion that his Republican colleagues are demanding for Donald Trump’s ballroom could be stripped from the budget reconciliation bill before it heads to the Senate...
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“She’s like the glue that keeps us all together,” said her brother. “Every happy event we have, we can’t imagine ourselves without her” A DACA recipient and nursing aide who volunteered to help save lives in New York during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic has been detained for...
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“We want them to know there are some people who love them, some people who support them – we want them to have hope” Local faith leaders and community members have spent every day this week leading up to Mother’s Day working to deliver yellow flowers – “symbols of...
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Washington, DC — New reporting from Mother Jones that an Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, has now been detained by ICE three separate times despite repeatedly proving his citizenship underscores a growing and dangerous reality under the Trump administration: no one is off limits. His...
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