Jul 2, 2018
This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of Americans turned out in both big cities and small towns to protest the Trump administration’s cruel family separation policy (see detailed recap and photos of this weekend’s activities here). Yet the Trump administration is dragging their feet and refusing to abide by...
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The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, is set in Brownsville, Texas, where advocates led by the ACLU held a mass rally this week outside of a courthouse where migrants are being prosecuted. (Interviews start at 7:00.) So much continued to happen in immigration news this...
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“Plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum” In a must-read exclusive, Vox’s Dara Lind reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has drafted a regulation that would bar most of those fleeing horrific violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala from being recognized as refugees in the...
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Yesterday, a federal judge in Chicago, Manish Shah, ruled that the Trump administration should stop making excuses and start reunifying families – in the case at hand, the mother Lydia Souza and her 9-year old son Diego. As the New York Times wrote: Noting in his ruling that there...
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While the Trump administration pursues zero tolerance policies at the border and indiscriminate deportations throughout the country, observers are highlighting the toll on public safety, national security and effective law enforcement due to the administration’s policies and plans: Texas Observer, “ICE Criminal Investigators Ask to Be Distanced from Detentions,...
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And Should Open the Door to Workable Alternatives On Tuesday, a federal judge issued a decision in Ms. L. v. ICE. In it, Judge Dana Sabraw, a George W. Bush appointee, ends the Trumps-Sessions-Nielsen family separation policy and strongly criticizes the administration for violating the constitutional rights to family...
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Court Has Ordered the Government to Reunite Infants and Toddlers Within Days While over 2,000 children remain separated from their parents, one of the men in charge, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, pointed fingers and attempted to shift the blame to Congress. Is this administration serious...
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Court Orders Families to be Reunited; Here’s How it Should be Done Below are a our key takeaways following the injunction issued by U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw enjoining the Trump administration’s family separation policy and requiring the government to reunify children under 5 years old with parents...
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A few weeks ago, a group of House Republicans the media has dubbed “the moderates” seemed to discover their backbones. Fed up with a leadership that ignores their needs and panders to the Freedom Caucus, they were on the verge of approving a discharge petition that would have compelled...
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Trump and GOP Congress Reveal Ineptitude to Match Moral Disgrace The Trump administration created the family separation crisis and is now dragging their feet in resolving it. More than 2,000 children have been seized by our government and ripped from the arms of their parents. Now that public outrage...
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