The number of detainer requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement was nearly 20 times higher than the 80 requests received in 2016, NYPD legislative affairs director Oleg Chernyavsky told the City Council. ...
Daily Archives: March 13, 2018
Pep Rallies and Protests for Trump on First California Trip Since Election
It was part pep rally and part celebration of what they viewed, with the president’s trip, as a fulfillment of a promise, the reason they voted for him: the construction of a wall to keep undocumented immigrants away. ...
Expert: DACA future more uncertain than ever
While courts have left in place the program allowing immigrants who came to the United States as children to stay here, the Trump administration is seeking to end it, and there is little, if any, chance for congressional ...
These Dreamers Were Deported to Mexico. Now, They’re Helping Others Start Again
The minutes ticked by slowly until finally the deportees stumbled in, clutching their meagre belongings and their crumpled deportation documents. Each had a plastic bag containing a sandwich and a bottle of juice. For ma ...
California Democrats in Congress says Trump’s increased immigration enforcement is ‘politically motivated’
Increased indiscriminate arrests are keeping people from seeking healthcare, sending their kids to school or reporting crime to police, and are “compromising the civil rights and liberties of all Californians – regardles ...
Meet one of the 260,000 legal immigrants Trump wants deported
Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced that it would terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 260,000 Salvadorans who live in the US. As a result, Nelsy Umanzor, a Salvadoran TPS holder ...
White House slams ‘sanctuary’ supporters in advance of Trump visit
The acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — Thomas Homan — took aim Monday night at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for denouncing Trump's immigration policies as "cowardly" and for accusing immigration o ...
Protests to Await Trump’s Visit to California Border
Trump will visit eight towering prototypes for the wall on Tuesday before addressing Marines in San Diego and attending a fundraiser in Los Angeles. He'll be staying there overnight. ...
The Latest: Trump says CA defiance on immigration must stop
Trump tweeted Tuesday that “thousands of dangerous & violent criminal aliens are released as a result of sanctuary policies” and are “set free to prey on innocent Americans.” ...
She saw anti-immigration politicians as hypocrites. So she launched ‘resistance genealogy.’
Mendelsohn, 49, is the creator of “Resistance Genealogy,” a term that has suddenly brought her a considerable amount of fame, to which she is still adjusting. And that is, essentially, a tweet-by-tweet exposé on hypocris ...