In the wake of Trump’s national emergency declaration, Lara Seligman’s latest piece for Foreign Policy spotlights how the administration will drain billions of dollars from military funding for the construction of an increasingly unpopular border wall. The President’s declaration came just days after military families testified at a Senate...
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A Complex Situation Requires a Multi-Pronged Approach As a federal judge in San Francisco blocks the Trump administration’s asylum ban and DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen lies that migrants are rushing the border, it is time for America to deal realistically and responsibly to the challenge of refugees and migrants...
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A recording of the call is available here. Earlier today veterans and national security experts gathered on a press call to call on the Trump administration to bring our troops home from their deployment at the border. Below are quotes from today’s speakers Retired Major General, Peter S. Cooke:...
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The Department of Defense is currently in the process of preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 immigrants and asylum seekers, including children, on a military bases in Texas and Arkansas. In opposition, nearly two dozen retired General and Flag Officers signed a letter expressing serious concern that diverting...
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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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Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown has, in the last year, spared few. Mothers and fathers have been deported, as have business leaders, entrepreneurs, Dreamers — and veterans. As we wrote in our Faces of Deportation in 2017 blog: Three percent – more than 500,000 – of the nearly 19 million U.S....
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Why is DHS Secretary Kelly — a retired Marine General — Letting Agents Act with Impunity? Today, several leading military experts are challenging the Trump Administration and DHS Secretary Kelly — a retired Marine General — regarding the policy and practice excesses of ICE and CBP. Yesterday, we highlighted an...
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The contributions of immigrants to the United States Armed Forces stretches back to the American Revolution, the American Immigration Council wrote yesterday. The report, “Humayun Khan and America’s Debt to Foreign-Born Service Members,” comes on the heels of Donald Trump’s despicable attacks on a Gold Star family: Khizr and Ghazala...
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The House of Representatives is set to, once again, take a vote against DREAMers. The diehard anti-immigrant wing of the GOP is seeking to strike from the National Defense Authorization Act a provision pushed by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) that would ask the Pentagon to review whether Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
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This morning, Military DREAMer Cesar Vargas, Rep. Ruben Gallego, and members of Congress held a press conference calling on Republicans to keep two Military DREAMer amendments in the defense bill going to the House floor this week for consideration. Rep. Gallego recently introduced an amendment that would allow DACA...
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