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Sun Journal Opinion: Heritier Nosso: Welcoming immigrants to Maine is good for senior citizens
I came to the United States as an asylum seeker from sub-Saharan Africa. As memories of the violence I fled fade, I am proud I have been able to embrace my new life working at a nonprofit to promote public health. I am filling a critical labor gap and showing why Maine’s more than 50,600 […]
Read MoreCourt Filing Seeks Information Regarding Retaliation Against Immigrants’ Rights Attorneys at Southern Border
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the American Immigration Council filed a motion late last week seeking information regarding possible U.S. government harassment and retaliation against the leadership of the immigrants’ rights organization Al Otro Lado.
Read MoreWorkers Detained in Massive Tennessee Immigration Raid Sue ICE
Workers who were detained during the first large-scale workplace immigration raid under the Trump administration filed a class action lawsuit against the government on Thursday. The raid, which took place in April 2018, decimated a meat processing plant in Bean Station, a rural community outside of Knoxville, Tennessee. The raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
Read MoreMultiple Lawsuits Filed Against Trump’s National Emergency Declaration
Speaking from the Rose Garden on Friday, President Trump invoked the National Emergency Act after Congress refused to provide full funding for additions to the U.S.-Mexico border wall. By declaring a national emergency, the president could potentially bypass Congress and pull from Department of Defense military construction funds to build new wall. As the president […]
Read MoreThe Philadelphia Inquirer Opinion: A long walk to a new life: Ragged sneakers remind Cherry Hill immigration lawyer what’s at stake for asylum-seekers
The sneakers are worn and ragged, with bits of dirt and thorn still embedded in the soles. Someone else might have tossed them out. But to Luis Canales, they’re precious. In these shoes he walked thousands of miles, from Honduras to Mexico to Texas, to safety and freedom and all the way to a new […]
Read MoreTrump Declares National Emergency to Fund His Border Wall
Following three weeks of spending negotiations, Congress passed a budget deal on Thursday to fund the federal government through the end of September. Even though it did not include the money President Trump demanded to build a border wall, he signed the deal and then immediately declared a national emergency in order to reprogram funding […]
Read MoreBorder Towns Are Among the Safest in the United States
On Monday evening in El Paso, Texas, two very different images of the U.S.-Mexico border emerged. President Trump held a rally to make the case for his border wall again, repeating his usual talking points on the supposed dangers lurking in the region. Just a block away, former Democratic Representative from El Paso, Texas Beto […]
Read MoreParents Ripped Apart from Their Children by Family Separation Policy File Claims Against Trump Administration
In their claims, the mothers describe the harrowing circumstances in which immigration officers ripped their children away from them.
Read MoreTrump’s State of the Union Speech Reflects a Fundamental Misunderstanding of Immigration
Speaking before Congress and the nation Tuesday evening, President Trump once again promised bipartisanship and instead delivered division. When it came to immigration, the president neither offered an olive branch nor acknowledged the devastating effects of his administration’s actions to date. Rather than offer solutions to the actual problems facing immigrants across the country, his […]
Read MoreSetting the Record Straight: Asylum Seekers Show Up for Court
Immigration restrictionists have often repeated a bold and erroneous claim: that there is a serious problem of asylum seekers who come to the U.S. border and disappear once released from detention. But both fact-checkers and independent studies show this is not true. In reality, the vast majority of asylum seekers diligently attend all of their […]
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