A piece in National Catholic Reporter highlights the heartbreaking callousness of the Trump Administration’s March 27th announcement to end Deferred Enforced Departure (DED), a program providing work permits and protection from deportation to thousands of Liberian immigrants who have fled armed conflict and economic uncertainty in Liberia and, in many cases, have lived...
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Two must-read stories out of California and Colorado describe the human and practical consequences of Trump’s mass deportation strategy. The question they ask us to answer is this: do we recognize immigrants’ humanity and shared values, or do we treat them as expendable and disposable objects? This Saturday, the Los...
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Father of Medical Student and Outspoken Dreamer, Belsy Garcia After more than a year of work, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Donald Trump continues to inhumanely break families apart. This time in Georgia, ICE is currently targeting Felix Garcia, father of three, after detaining him during a routine...
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For more than a year now, the Trump Administration’s deportation force has targeted immigrants all over the country, leading to the removal of countless mothers and fathers who have lived in the U.S. for decades and haven’t done anything wrong. Now, a Georgia family worries that it may be their...
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Donald Trump the candidate — when he wasn’t busy running on white nationalism — claimed to be a ‘business president’ with unique insights on how to boost the economy. “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” he boasted. Yet in the last year, Trump has...
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As the Senate’s immigration debate kicks into higher gear today, there is a concerted effort underway by Republicans to sanitize the immigration agenda and implications of the proposals from President Trump, Stephen Miller, and fellow hardliners. But there should be no mistake: Republicans are using neutral-sounding language and terminology...
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“I’m doing this because I have a child. I want to be able to look my child in eye,” Jordon Dyrdahl-Roberts wrote on Twitter last week. “I’m drawing my line in the sand here. Cooperation with this regime is not acceptable.” Breaking families apart was not something Dyrdahl-Roberts, a...
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A series of media reports highlight the urgency people feel across the country to call on lawmakers to prioritize and protect Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by enacting a permanent legislative solution for 300,000+ TPS holders nationwide facing deportation. Advocates in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and California are urging Congress not to lose sight of TPS...
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Law Enforcement Official and Trump Voter: “I didn’t sign up for this. And shame on me for being short-sighted about this, but it’s not just.” From Ohio to Kansas to rural Washington state, Americans are increasingly outraged about the rubber stamp deportation policy the Trump Administration is implementing. The...
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Sign the petition asking ICE to stop Joel Colindres’ deportation here. Joel Colindres is a Connecticut father who is facing deportation in less than two weeks, even though ICE gave him a stay of deportation just last year. Colindres has been in the US since 2004, is married to...
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