Photo from Steven Lane of The Associated Press. From Harold Jordan, ACLU-PA Senior Policy Advocate One of the issues that the ACLU has been working on diligently, for years, has been student and youth rights. This week, NBC News aired a series of reports … Continued
Posted at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/21/trump-administration-issues-how-hyper-aggressive-mass-deportation-policy Published on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 by Common Dreams New Homeland Security guidelines constitute a sweeping rewrite of Obama-era policies on immigration By Lauren McCauley, staff writer The ‘Wall of Crosses’ along the U.S.-Mexico border in Nogales. … Continued
This week, your Members of Congress (MoCs) don’t have votes and committee hearings. This is a great opportunity to ask them the big picture questions—and to try to get them to commit to an answer—so we’ve outlined four major topics … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): Despite continued outcry from faith communities and immigrants’ rights groups, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has restarted workplace and home invasion raids, carrying out President Trump’s recent executive orders to build a wall across the U.S. southern … Continued
Now is an urgent time for immigrants, refugees, Muslims, faith communities and allies to join together to proclaim: #WeAreAllAmerica. Join us. Stand with immigrants, refugees, and Muslims. Let your voice to be heard on February 22nd at your congressional district … Continued
From the Pennsylvania Immigration and Citizenship Coalition (http://www.paimmigrant.org): Starting on the first day of the 2017-18 legislative session, Pennsylvania legislators began introducing bills targeting immigrant and refugee communities. Many state legislators believe that because both President Trump and Senator Toomey … Continued
From the Latin America Working Group (http://www.lawg.org/): Chocolates are great, but compassion is even better. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we’ve compiled a short list of actions you can take today to spread love to those who need it now … Continued
From Make the Road PA (http://www.maketheroadpa.org/): Immigration raids have begun. Last week, ICE started creating terror in immigrant communities across the country rounding up and arresting almost 700 people. These raids are tearing families apart and cause irreparable damage and … Continued
From the Interfaith Immigration Coalition (http://www.interfaithimmigration.org): Immigration raids are happening under the Trump Administration. As faith allies, we are called to be in solidarity through rapid response mobilization stop these raids, stop these deportations and support impacted communities. In the … Continued
From the Center for the Victims of Torture (http://www.cvt.org/): On Thursday, February 9, the Ninth Circuit Court handed down its ruling refusing to reinstate the Executive Order Banning Refugees. This is a positive step on a long journey to rescind … Continued