STRIPPING LEGAL STATUS TO MAKE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE DEPORTABLE Last weekend, the Trump administration announced it will terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, a devastating move that reverses the U.S. government’s recent earlier decision to extend this relief and pulls the rug out from hundreds of...
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CHAOS AND CRUELTY: TWO WEEKS OF THE INDISCRIMINATE TRUMP DEPORTATION MACHINE Two weeks into the second Trump administration and the chaos and cruelty are already exposed for all to see. The administration’s immigration enforcement machine has been sweeping in its scope, harm and indiscriminate nature, falsely alleging that all...
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TRUMP’S DAY ONE ‘SHOCK AND AWFUL’ The Trump administration’s day one announcements on immigration and the border were sweeping in scope and by design, part of a purposeful “shock and awful” effort that aims to overwhelm opposition by sheer volume. While experts continue to analyze the full implications, some...
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THE COMING UGLY BLITZ FROM TRUMP Ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, leaders from CASA, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), Make the Road New York, United We Dream Action, and America’s Voice held a press call on what to expect in the first days of his...
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THE DANGEROUS SCOPE OF THE LAKEN RILEY ACT On Tuesday, the House passed the Laken Riley Act, a dangerous anti-immigrant bill introduced by Republicans last year meant to jumpstart mass roundups and detentions and further scapegoat immigrants. This proposal should really be called the Ken Paxton Empowerment Act, because...
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TRUMP’S MASS DEPORTATION AGENDA TAKES AIM AT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN During a recent interview with NBC News’s Kristen Welker, President-elect Donald Trump reiterated that his “bloody” mass deportation agenda would ensnare U.S. citizens and attack basic principles of what it means to be an American,...
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GROWING CONCERN FROM BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY LEADERS ABOUT IMPACT OF MASS DEPORTATION There’s been a daily drumbeat of coverage about the growing consensus from business and industry voices that Trump’s signature policy agenda – a violent mass deportation plan, stripping protections from millions of immigrants here legally and threatening...
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THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF TRUMPISM AV started and ended the week talking about the broad implications of Trump’s mass deportation and immigration restriction plan, and especially the impact on economics. Over the weekend, Trump confirmed he planned to use the military to repel the “invasion,” reiterating the dangerous white...
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SHOCK & AWFUL: MASS DEPORTATION, APPOINTMENTS AND IMMIGRATION The Trump team on immigration is taking shape and it is ugly. Noted white nationalist Stephen Miller and family separation architect Thomas Homan will be appointed to major immigration policy positions that will not require Senate confirmation and South Dakota Gov....
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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Both Vice President Harris and Donald Trump billed major addresses this week as their campaign’s “closing arguments” and they each presented stark contrasts, to say the least. Trump’s event at Madison Square Garden was a festival of hate, xenophobia, anti-semitism, anti-Black racism and anti-everybody racism. In...
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