On Monday, more than 200 sworn statements from detained immigrants – mothers, fathers, children – were filed in federal court describing horrific conditions in immigration detention. Many came seeking asylum only to be thrown into what most described as “dog cages” and “ice boxes” with highly unsanitary conditions where...
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The Trump Administration’s cruel and incompetent family separation policy and related crackdown continues to exact a toll on children and families, as a series of first-person accounts and assessments highlight. Meanwhile, several medical experts are speaking out against the administration’s proposed “alternative,” stressing the long-term trauma that would result...
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Fresh off his historically disastrous summit in Helsinki, be ready for President Trump to try his favorite political maneuver – aiming to distract and divide us by whipping up fears over immigrants. Immigrant bashing is his central political strategy to divert attention from Helsinki, soaring healthcare costs, the Trump...
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The Trump administration’s family separations have inflicted a lasting trauma on thousands of children and families – as well as on our nation’s moral authority. While more than 2,500 minors remain separated from their parents as a direct result of Trump administration policy, dozens of children have been reunited...
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Washington Post syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson has authored a scathing condemnation of the Trump administration. He opens with this: The Trump administration’s kidnapping — that’s the proper word — of the children of would-be migrants should be seen as an ongoing criminal conspiracy. Somebody ought to go to jail....
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This week, Vox’s Dara Lind is out with a new exclusive on a joint, must-read study from Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project (ASAP) and Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC). The study shows that, despite the administration’s claims, Trump and his agents do not have to indefinitely detain immigrant families. It is legal...
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After enormous public and political pressure, President Trump issued an executive order (E.O.) that purportedly put an end to family separation. However, since that E.O. was signed three weeks ago, only a few families separated by the Trump Administration have been reunited, even families with infants and toddlers and...
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As the nation reels from Trump’s family separation policy, Vox’s Dara Lind cautions that — following Judge Dolly Gee’s Monday ruling — the Trump administration is gearing up to separate families again. As she explains: In some cases, Monday night’s ruling says, the government can force parents to make...
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Countdown to Somalia TPS Decision Deadline: 8 Days In an article for Blavity, Maya J. Boddie writes about the terrifying reality more than 300,000 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders are facing after the Trump administration ended the program: leaving their 273,000 U.S. citizen children behind when they’re forcibly deported...
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Yet Trump administration warns of more family separation and family detention The Trump administration suffered another defeat at the hands of a federal judge, a decision that should pave the way for asylum-seekers and their children to be released into the community, into alternatives to detention projects that have...
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