Eleven activists in Chicago were arrested yesterday after an act of civil disobedience outside Broadview Detention Center, where they sat in the street with linked arms and blocked traffic in order to protest deportations. The arrests were part of a two-day march beginning on Monday night from ICE’s downtown...
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International Business Times: Immigration Reform Advocates: Heavy-Handed Obama Deportations Hit Minor Offenders, Not Serious Criminals By Laura Matthews Cronkite News: Protesters rally at White House as Obama-era deportations top 2 million By Colton Gavin Vox: Obama is deporting more immigrants than any president in history: explained By Dara Lind...
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The DRM Action Coalition is escalating the pressure on President Obama to address his record rate of deportations by beginning a hunger strike in front of the White House today, with no word of when their action might end. The group announced last week that they would be staking...
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Fast 4 Families and We Belong Together have joined forces to bring 100 women — some of whom are facing deportation — to Washington, DC for a 48-hour fast calling on President Obama and Congress to pass immigration reform and stop the deportations. Yesterday, the women marched to the Capitol...
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Immigrant Advocates from Northern and Southern Borders Discuss Facts and Faces Behind DHS “Priorities” in Light of NYT and TRAC Studies In a conference call today with reporters, immigration experts and community leaders reacted to the latest reports about who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is actually deporting,...
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Below is a statement from the Florida Immigrant Rights Coalition commending Rep. Ros-Lehtinen for standing with immigrant families: Rep. Ros-Lehtinen voted with her conscience yesterday when she cast her vote to include HR 15 in the budget resolution….On behalf of women, families, and for the future of this country,...
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House Republicans are blocking immigration reform. The reason Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) gives? “How can we trust the President to actually obey the law and enforce the law?” The likely result of continued Republican inaction: in a matter of weeks, President Obama will exercise his legal authority to find...
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On the heels of a front-page New York Times story on immigration and deportations this week, Michael C. Bender at Bloomberg News today also takes a look at data from ICE. Contrary to what the Obama Administration claims, a substantial number of deportations target immigrants who would qualify for legislative...
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Bloomberg: Obama Deports Thousands Who Senate Would Let Stay in U.S. By Michael C. Bender Hispanically Speaking News: As Deadline for Legislative Action Draws Closer, New Scorecard Shows House Republicans on Wrong Side Washington Post (The Fix): Can Jeb Bush change the conversation on immigration in the 2016 GOP...
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As Benjy Sarlin at MSNBC pointed out, even Mitt Romney supported legalization for military DREAMers. That means that the current House GOP, in refusing to consider Jeff Denham’s ENLIST Act as part of the defense authorization bill, is officially to the right of Romney — the DREAM Act-vetoing, SB 1070-supporting,...
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