Every day brings more reminders about the centrality and disturbing nature of President Trump’s anti-immigrant worldview. As the Washington Post reports: The night before Trump delivered his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he huddled with Jared Kushner and Miller in the Oval Office to talk immigration …...
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The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with our own Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, who spoke with us about immigration politics and the GOP’s hate-filled agenda in 2018. This week, a Border Patrol officer detained two U.S. citizen women heard speaking...
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Ugly Strategy Trumpeted by Stephen Miller; Leaves No Room for So-called GOP Moderates Yesterday, President Donald Trump’s roundtable on Long Island was the latest evidence of the White House commitment to divide the country in hopes of maintaining political power. In a new interview with Breitbart News, White House advisor...
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Will DHS walk back or endorse assertion from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that schools can decide whether to report undocumented students to immigration enforcement? U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos yesterday embraced the notion that individual schools can decide to report students and families to immigration enforcement – an...
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Matt Hildreth: “This kind of fear-mongering has no place in our country. We are better than this.” As the White House’s continues to stoke fear over immigrants and as President Trump delivers another anti-immigrant stemwinder on Long Island, it’s again worth remembering the ongoing gulf between the Trump administration’s...
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Last week, Donald Trump referred to immigrant as “animals”, a comment which has been criticized by a wide range of advocates and commentators for its dehumanization. While apologists have tried to parse what Trump actually meant by the comment, the scary fact is that the Trump Administration treats immigrants...
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The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with Mustafa Nour, a Somalian-American entrepreneur who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and spoke with us about what it’s like to be a refugee in the Keystone State. Donald Trump said something dehumanizing about immigrants again this...
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“¡Si se puede!” “¡Si se puede!” “¡Si se puede!” were among the chants yesterday in front of the California state house as immigrants and immigrant allies from across the state gathered to celebrate Immigrant Day 2018. The day of action, which was organized by the California Immigrant Policy Center,...
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Border Network for Human Rights brings hundreds of families together in fifth cross-border event El Paso, Texas – On Saturday, more than 300 families from across the U.S. were able to reunite with family members who they haven’t seen, in some cases for decades, because they’ve either been deported...
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La Opinión editorial and Matt Yglesias at Vox with key new commentaries as Trump Administration advances cruel new policies at the border Two new commentaries capture why the Trump Administration’s approach to border and asylum policy is defined by callousness and inhumanity and not by the actual facts or...
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