Former President Barack Obama took to social media this weekend to mark the 13th anniversary of his administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. He called his administration’s immigration policy, which offered temporary protection and work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived to the U.S. as kids, “an example …
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As President Donald Trump calls on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ramp up arrests and deportations in America’s biggest cities, because they are the “Democrat Power Center,” he and his administration are eyeing Illinois for the next militarized crackdown. “Chicago is next, if they go too far,” a senior …
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Following a rare admission that his immigration policies were hurting farming and hospitality businesses, Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will hold off on raids on workers in those industries, The New York Times reported. “Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating …
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Last week, the Supreme Court blocked Donald Trump from continuing to use an archaic wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process, after the administration sent hundreds of people to prison in El Salvador this way. In a 7-2 decision, the justices vacated a decision by the Fifth Circuit …
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Donald Trump is still seething at the Supreme Court after it issued a ruling Friday continuing to block his efforts to deport immigrants without due process by citing an archaic wartime law. On Saturday, Trump shared a post on Truth Social from lawyer Mike Davis, one of his most extreme …
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In a weighty new music video, “Came From,” Anik Khan – a rapper born in Bangladesh and raised in Queens, New York – recognizes the lives, journey, and impact of immigrants in America and elsewhere. “Do you know where we came from?” he raps. “Do you know what we had …
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President Donald Trump’s administration is working to ramp up its pointless cruelty toward immigrants, and has apparently been plotting to have the military send Asian immigrants to Libya imminently, according to immigration lawyers. The plan to deport immigrants to Libya, a war-torn country known for widespread mistreatment of migrants, would …
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Donald Trump owes his continued freedom — and very likely his second term as president — to the fact that he was allowed to exploit the fundamental American right and hard-won tradition of due process, which is designed to protect an individual from arbitrary, weaponized prosecution and state terror. But …
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The news that three U.S. citizen children were illegally removed from Louisiana and flown to Honduras last Friday has swept the nation. President Donald Trump’s administration continues to double down, insisting that the two mothers wanted to take their children with them, despite the deported families’ legal counsel vehemently denying …
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A federal judge has ruled that there is “probable cause” to hold the Trump administration in contempt over its removal of hundreds of migrants from the United States to a notorious prison in El Salvador despite an order to halt their deportation. On Wednesday, D.C. U.S. District Court Judge James …
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