"It’s just really great," she said. "It was really weighing on me because I’ve done all this work for four years and I thought my whole future was going to change and I was going to have to move away from my family." ...
Daily Archives: March 21, 2018
Congressional accountability measures for ICE are long overdue
Publicly, leaders on both sides of the aisle are all too eager to carry the mantle of fiscal responsibility and bring what they tout as business-inspired efficiency to running government. But when it comes to applying co ...
In latest federal spending bill, Congress must protect immigrants
Trump has made it clear he doesn’t want to advance real solutions for the millions of undocumented people who live, work, and pursue their dreams in this country; instead, he wants mass deportation. ...
Astrid turned 15 years old last week, but she spent her birthday not at the quinceañera she had been planning for months but surrounded by strangers at a detention facility in rural Pennsylvania for immigrant families se ...
Judge Orders Kansas Dad Fighting Deportation to Be Freed
U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark ordered the release of Syed Ahmed Jamal, 55, after a hearing in Kansas City, Missouri. He was being held in the jail in Platte County, Missouri, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north ...
Immigrant advocates urge bus company to block federal agents
The American Civil Liberties Union’s affiliates in 10 states sent a letter Wednesday to officials for the Greyhound bus company asking them to deny agents permission to board without a warrant or on the U.S. border. ...
Trump rails against sanctuary cities amid immigration talks
He accused cities that fail to cooperate with immigration authorities of putting the nation at risk by releasing “thousands of criminal aliens” who should be deported. “In many cases they are very bad actors. We have ga ...
Immigrant arrested in widely seen video is released for now
Judge Zsa Zsa Depaolo said Perla Morales Luna, 36, was not a danger to society or a flight risk and should be released to her family. She told Morales Luna at a hearing at a detention center that her case would be sent t ...
How the Travel Ban Shattered Hope for My Family
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” These words hit home for my wife and I who are Iranian-American citizen ...
Trump Is Fundraising Off a Question That Would Scare Immigrants Away From the Census
The Justice Department is pushing for the 2020 census to include a citizenship question for the first time since 1950, a move civil rights groups say would “sabotage” the census and make immigrants afraid to respond. The ...
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