Even Family Detention is No Place for a Child, Especially When There Are Smart, Humane and Cost-effective Alternatives Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sonia Nazario published an opinion piece in the New York Times describing the cruelty and harm of trading family separation for family detention, especially when smart, humane and... Continue »
LISTEN TO PRESS CALL HERE Austin, TX –   The Texas Civil Rights Project hosted a press call on Sunday evening to provide an update on the latest from the border on the family separation caused by the Trump Administration and the petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human RIghts... Continue »
The volume of coverage, pace of developments, and mountains of purposeful misinformation from the Trump administration can make it hard to focus on the essential facts of the family separation crisis:   More than 2,000 seized children are locked up. The Trump administration has no serious plan to reunite... Continue »
In response to the Trump Administration separating children from their families, activists across the country have been taking a stand, organizing protests, and letting Trump know that the separation of families cannot continue to happen in our name. A movement to Occupy ICE has also emerged in a number of... Continue »
Late Friday U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen filed a memorandum in NAACP v. Trump, one of the several court challenges to President Trump’s September 4, 2017 cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, purportedly “clarifying the Department’s position” on its rescission of DACA.  The memorandum is in... Continue »
As directed by the President’s executive order issued on Wednesday, the Trump Justice Department has filed a request on Thursday to amend a federal court order – the “Flores Agreement” – to allow the administration to detain children for indefinite periods of time. Currently, such indefinite detention is in... Continue »
In the midst of the Trump administration’s inhumane, immigration insanity, policy and legal experts gathered to discuss the whirlwind of this week’s immigration developments and their implications. This past week, Trump signed an executive order on family separation that will indefinitely jail families all while Congress continues to scramble... Continue »
A Is For America podcast
The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with Ur Jaddou, the director of DHS Watch, a project of America’s Voice that focuses on holding the Trump Administration accountable for its anti-immigrant practices. We spoke about Trump’s practice of separating children from their families,... Continue »
And Trump & His Administration Don’t Seem to Care The Trump administration has ripped more than 2,300 children from their parents as a result of its “zero tolerance” policy. While we await if and how the President’s change of direction on family separation plays out at the border, the... Continue »
Here are four key points to bear in mind regarding the House Immigration bill – the effort led by Speaker Ryan that reinforces Trump’s lying, panders to the Freedom Caucus, rolls the so-called Republican moderates, and does nothing to solve the crises caused by their President. This entire partisan... Continue »