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We know how to help children fleeing violence in Central America. Instead, we’re raiding communities and deporting families. By Elizabeth Holtzman, The Nation February 11, 2016 As the coauthor, with …
By David Bacon, American Prospect January 27, 2016 The Obama administration's self-contradictory stance on deportation perpetuates a long tradition of U.S. immigration policies that ignore the ro…
By Garance Burke, Associated Press January 25, 2016 LOS ANGELES (AP) — As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.…
The revolving door doesn't swing only at the Pentagon. By Ryan Grim, The Huffington Post January 18, 2016 WASHINGTON -- Thousands of unaccompanied minors who came across the U.S. border as part o…
"...[W]hen there’s terror in a place like Guatemala, people flee. They come to the U.S. That’s where a lot of the undocumented immigrants originated from. And then Americans complain. Well, you …
"...[T]he U.S. needs to genuinely address the root causes of Central American migration. To do so requires policy makers to take a hard look at existing U.S. policies toward the region..." …
By Michelle Chen, The Nation January 4, 2016 The White House rang in the New Year by slamming the gates on refugee families seeking sanctuary. Immigration and Customs Enforcementm (ICE) announced qui…
By Nigel Duara and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times January 3, 2016 The detentions of at least 11 families across the country marked the first day of an effort by the government to find and de…
By John Wagner, Washington Post via Tico Times December 25, 2015 Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Thursday that he is “very disturbed” by reports that the Obama administration has…
“In recent years, we’ve seen this trend of people who survived the big civil wars of the nineties—Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone—come to the U.S. as refugees, and now, many years later, are struggling …
Distributed by the Freedom Socialist Party November 25, 2015 Miriam Padilla My cousin, Nohemi González, was one of the victims killed during the attacks in Paris on November 13. Nohemi was a bright s…
PRESS RELEASE November 24, 2015 https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-introduces-families-first-immigration-plan/ BURLINGTON, Vt. – As he returned home to celebrate Thanksgiving with his fa…
By Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post November 17, 2015 The results of the poll illustrated above by the useful Twitter account @HistOpinion were published in the pages of Fortune magazine in July 1938.…
By John Burnett, NPR November 13, 2015 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been under fire for opening three detention centers to hold Central American immigrant families who fled to this co…
By Michael D. Shearnov, New York Times November 5, 2015 WASHINGTON — President Obama vowed a year ago to give Central American children fleeing violence a new, legal way into the United States by all…
By Tina Vasquez, RH Reality Check November 6, 2015 Ten days after news broke of a hunger strike at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, reports are emerging from inside Hutto that si…
By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times November 6, 2015 Immigrant advocates say hundreds of men have launched a hunger strike at an immigrant detention center in the high desert city of Adelanto, Calif…
The refugee influx struck a strong emotional chord with me, as a Hungarian-American visiting my parents' homeland. I had arrived in Hungary on August 25 with my wife Debi, to visit my late Cathol…
The Commission's report adds to calls for the Department of Homeland Security to release detained children and mothers. By Molly Jackson, Christian Science Monitor September 20, 2015 The US Commi…
But legal groups say virtually all unaccompanied minors from Central America qualify for humanitarian relief. By Roque Planas, The Huffington Post August 19, 2015 Hillary Clinton this week defended h…
