It’s increasingly clear that the Trump administration is unable and unwilling to meet a Tuesday deadline, imposed by a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush, to reunite 102 children younger than 5 years old who remain separated from their parents. Not long ago, Trump administration officials reassured Congress...
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Over the past week, the Trump administration continued its efforts to dismantle immigration and refugee programs that reflect long-held American values. The policy changes, summarized below, include a draft regulation that makes it more difficult for those fleeing violence and persecution to apply for refugee status; an overhaul of...
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Trump Administration Launches Purge: 1) to Denaturalize Americans Who Have Sworn Allegiance to the Flag, and 2) to Discharge Immigrants from Military Who Are Prepared to Make the Ultimate Sacrifice It’s long been clear that President Trump rails against the specter of immigrant criminality to justify indiscriminate and sweeping...
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Jul 2, 2018
This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of Americans turned out in both big cities and small towns to protest the Trump administration’s cruel family separation policy (see detailed recap and photos of this weekend’s activities here). Yet the Trump administration is dragging their feet and refusing to abide by...
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Yesterday, a federal judge in Chicago, Manish Shah, ruled that the Trump administration should stop making excuses and start reunifying families – in the case at hand, the mother Lydia Souza and her 9-year old son Diego. As the New York Times wrote: Noting in his ruling that there...
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The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, in response to today’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold President Trump’s Muslim ban. We are deeply disappointed with today’s Supreme Court decision. Let’s not kid ourselves. This is a Muslim ban. It...
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The volume of coverage, pace of developments, and mountains of purposeful misinformation from the Trump administration can make it hard to focus on the essential facts of the family separation crisis: More than 2,000 seized children are locked up. The Trump administration has no serious plan to reunite...
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Late Friday U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen filed a memorandum in NAACP v. Trump, one of the several court challenges to President Trump’s September 4, 2017 cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, purportedly “clarifying the Department’s position” on its rescission of DACA. The memorandum is in...
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The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, on where we are today with respect to the family separation crisis: Yes, Americans rose up and forced the President to step back. No, we are not close to being done with this crisis. Yes, the...
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Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order which purports to end his cruel family separation policy. However, as written, it does no such thing. In fact, it could make the situation worse by requiring indefinite detention of families and continuing to permit children to be taken from their parents....
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