At The Economist this week is an article entitled “Barack Obama: the Deporter-in-Chief,” which calls out President Obama for his devastating record of deporting nearly 2 million immigrants. Read the full article here or an excerpt below: OCTAVIO NAVA CABRERA was pulled over by police in Illinois in April 2013 for...
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At today’s Congressional briefing on American families in deportation, one of the speakers was Seleste Wisniewski, a mother of four whose husband Pedro was almost deported last year. Pedro and Seleste’s oldest son, 24-year-old Juan, has severe cerebral palsy and is completely reliant upon others to take care of his most...
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At today’s Congressional briefing on American families in deportation, one of the speakers was Maria Perez, a mother of two whose husband Brigido was deported last year. You can watch Maria tell her heartbreaking story below, or read a version of it here. As Maria said today about her...
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Congressional Women’s Working Group on Immigration Reform and America’s Voice Education Fund Highlight the Painful Realities of our Broken Immigration System Neither Seleste Wisniewski nor Maria Perez ever thought she’d have to choose between her country and her husband. But last year, these two women were forced to face...
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Just over five years into his presidency, President Obama is nearing his 2 millionth deportation, and a legacy where he will have deported more immigrants — mothers, fathers, siblings, and neighbors — than any other president in history. On Wednesday, February 5th at 10 AM ET, the Congressional Women’s...
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Front page at the Washington Post today is a David Nakamura story about immigration reform, a call for the end of deportations, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network’s “Not 1 More” campaign. View the full story here. It’s up to Congress — and House Republicans — to pass...
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A top story in the news today is Justin Bieber, and whether his latest drunk driving antics could get him deported. As America’s Voice and others have pointed out, the Canadian pop star is a privileged case — hundreds of thousands of people every year are deported for much,...
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Think Progress Piece Highlights Upsetting Trend of Racial Profiling and Other Abusive Practices by Local Enforcement Agents and Facilitated by ICE Washington, DC – The haphazard and egregious deportations of immigrants and family separations is a consistent trend for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As the Administration prepares to...
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A last-minute reconsideration from ICE means that, for now, Ricardo Ramos is still with his family. We began writing about Ricardo Ramos this week after the Latino and Polish communities in Ohio banded together to organize a 20-mile pilgrimage for the Cleveland father, an event which drew the support of over one hundred Ohioans and garnered...
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Launch the petitions–Justin Bieber is apparently in danger of deportation. The pop star, originally from Canada, is facing felony charges for reportedly egging his neighbor’s mansion and causing $20,000 in damage, which amounts to a felony, which in turn is a deportable offense. As Colorlines and others have noted, Bieber’s antics are...
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