TRUMP-BUKELE MEETING: SENDING U.S. CITIZENS TO FOREIGN PRISON Monday’s meeting between Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele should shock every American who cares about our system of checks and balances. Not only did Trump make clear he does not intend to abide by the Supreme Court ruling...
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AMERICA’S VOICE REACTS TO SCOTUS RULING IN KILMAR GARCÍA CASE On Thursday, SCOTUS ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego García’s return to Maryland. While the ruling was carefully worded, the message was clear: bring him home. However, a hearing in Judge Xinis’ courtroom today showed U.S. officials’...
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TRUMP ABDUCTS MARYLAND DAD AND SPOUSE OF U.S. CITIZEN WITH PROTECTED STATUS The Trump administration continues to escalate its ruthless effort to expel immigrants, abducting a Maryland dad and sending him to a Salvadoran mega-prison even though he was granted protected status by a federal judge under Trump’s first...
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TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ABDUCTS ANOTHER UNIVERSITY STUDENT In a terrifying escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants, plainclothes and masked individuals identifying themselves as federal agents abducted Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk in broad daylight as she was walking to an interfaith center to break her Ramadan fast. The...
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INVOCATION OF 1798 WARTIME ACT IS ‘TIP OF VERY DANGEROUS SPEAR’ AIMED AT OUR CONSTITUTION The Trump administration’s invocation of a 1798 wartime act to help carry out his mass deportations agenda is unlawful, a dangerous expansion of executive power, and the “tip of a very dangerous spear” aimed...
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SUPPRESSING FREE SPEECH: THE LARGER, CHILLING SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MAHMOUD KHALIL CASE The Trump administration’s alarming arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. Notably, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by...
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ANOTHER NIGHT OF LIES AND HATE As we predicted at the beginning of the week, every sentence Donald Trump said about immigrants during his joint address to Congress on Tuesday night included a noun, a verb, and an ugly lie on immigration. His anti-immigrant obsessions, fully embraced by Congressional...
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AMERICAN DREAM AND PROMISE ACT REINTRODUCED IN HOUSE On Wednesday, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) led 200 House colleagues in reintroducing the American Dream and Promise Act of 2025, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for young immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, as well as Temporary...
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TRUMP’S REVOCATION OF HAITIAN TPS IS UNCONSCIONABLE On Thursday, the Trump administration announced the rescission of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants, whose work permits and protections against deportation are set to expire in summer 2025. Not only is this intentionally making half a...
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AS REPUBLICANS PUSH FOR BILLIONS TO FUND IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN, THREE KEY QUESTIONS Earlier this week, NBC News reported on a GOP budget resolution that includes an additional $175 billion for “for immigration enforcement, including ICE agents, detention beds and deportation resources.” Yet as elected Republicans like Lindsey Graham and...
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