Cleveland Heights, OH – In a new piece for Cleveland.com, Lynn Tramonte, Deputy Director of America’s Voice and Director of Ohio’s Voice, challenges Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to respond to a letter sent last week from the Texas Attorney General to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on behalf of a lawsuit that...
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Jesus Lara, Long-Time Willard Resident, Dreams of Remaining With His Family Cleveland, OH – At the tail end of Father’s Day, the New York Times published a searing feature from Miriam Jordan regarding the immigration debate currently raging nationally and in small-town Ohio and one father – Jesus Lara Lopez – whose deportation battle...
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Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2213, a bill that would allow President Trump to lower the hiring standards for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents by eliminating a polygraph test for certain applicants. Investigative reporter Andrew Becker and others have foundnumerous examples where the polygraph helped weed out...
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On Monday night, the Columbus City Council unanimously voted to formalize Mayor Andrew Ginther’s executive order making Columbus, Ohio a refuge for immigrants. The new ordinance passed by the council prohibits city workers from using city money, equipment or personnel solely to find and apprehend people based on their...
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Tramonte and Leopold: Trump Administration Enables Abusers With Tactic of “Deportation Intimidation” Cleveland, OH — Michael Grabell at ProPublica, an organization for independent investigative journalism, published a new piece highlighting the depth of exploitation that immigrant workers are experiencing at Case Farms chicken processing plants in Ohio and North Carolina....
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McCauley Column, NYT Editorial Provoke Compelling Questions about Ohio Mom’s Deportation The headline of Byron McCauley’s column in the Cincinnati Enquirer about Oswaldo, Maribel Trujillo’s eldest son, is heartbreaking: “His mom deported, 15 year-old boy left with questions,” and so is the entire piece. Just read the first lines:...
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In the midst of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, a piece by PRI’s The World highlights the work of Virginia Nunes Gutierrez, a community health worker and instructor at The Ohio State University, who started a network in Columbus to help undocumented immigrants when deportations split families. As we highlighted...
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Throughout the country, the Trump Administration and an “unshackled” ICE and CBP are seeking to detain and deport immigrants who have lived here for decades, with U.S. citizen children and deep ties to America. In the face of this costly and chaotic mass deportation vision, Americans have gone out...
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Cleveland, OH – A new Associated Press wire story by business writer Paul Wiseman, titled “Why deporting undocumented immigrants could slow US economy,” highlights the economic and fiscal toll of Trump’s mass deportation policy: If President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration leads to large-scale deportations, among those...
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Ohio Resources: Immigrants, Lawyers, Advocates Available for Reaction and Analysis Cleveland, Ohio – Tonight, President Trump will address a joint session of Congress. We expect a dark speech that is short on facts and long on fear-mongering against immigrants, Muslims, and refugees. Lynn Tramonte, Director of Ohio’s Voice, said:...
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