From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): With Hurricane Florence on our doorstep, we’ve learned that the administration has diverted $10 million from FEMA ‘response and recovery’ to spend on ICE incarceration. [1] This diversion of precious funding from disaster relief in order … Continued
From the Center for American Progress (http://www.americanprogress.org): In its latest attempt to decrease legal immigration, the Trump administration is developing another cruel policy to target immigrant families who need help. According to a POLITICO report, an increasing number of immigrants—both … Continued
From the Detention Watch Network (https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/): ICE is seeking a special increase in funding for immigrant detention. ICE’s budget for immigration detention and enforcement has jumped by almost a billion dollars in the last two years through a combination of … Continued
From CLASP (http://www.clasp.org/): In its latest attack on immigrant families, the Administration proposed a regulation that would weaken protections for immigrant children and make it easier to imprison children and families indefinitely. The proposed Flores rule is open for public … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Right now, ICE is asking Congress for additional funding for family incarceration and immigration detention. It is critical for the faith community to make their voices heard and urge Congress to reject any proposal that fuels family … Continued
From the Center for the Victims of Torture (http://www.cvt.org/): It’s the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. Brutal violence in places like Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Myanmar drove more than 68 million … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/30/ethnic-cleansing-bureaucracy-trump-administration-denying-passports-accusing-latino Published on Thursday, August 30, 2018 by Common Dreams “First vilification…Escalated raids and border militarization. Family separations…Now, mass revocations of citizenship.” By Julia Conley, staff writer The U.S. State Department has accused hundreds of Latino citizens who … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/08/28/head-smacker-states-suing-end-daca-lose-billions/#.W4WohM5KgdU By Lecia Imbery August 28, 2018 As reported by our friends at the Center for American Progress(CAP), 10 states suing to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program stand to lose billions of dollars if they “win” … Continued
Posted at https://www.chn.org/2018/08/17/protecting-immigrant-children-abuse/#.W3bWyc5KgdU By Lecia Imbery August 17, 2018 On Aug. 16, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on what federal agencies are doing – or rather, aren’t doing enough of – to protect unaccompanied … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (http://www.paimmigrant.org): The Department of Homeland Security has drafted new rules redefining “public charge” policies. The “public charge” test has been part of federal immigration law for decades. It is designed to identify people … Continued