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MIAMI – In celebration of Emancipation Day, community partners to host a Citizenship & Voter Registration Drive on Saturday August 10, 2019, 10am to 2pm, at the Church of the Ascension, 11201 SW 160th Street, in SW Miami Dade County. Experienced legal and immigration professionals will be on hand to provide free guidance on completing naturalization applications. Eligible applicants, those with …
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN JULY 12, 2019 06:00 AM At the 3,200-bed Homestead detention center for unaccompanied immigrant youths, one 15-year-old boy is an aberration: He has lived in the United States virtually his entire life. Far from being a recent arrival at the southern border, the teen entered the country when he was a 9-month-old infant; he has lived …
BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO JULY 02, 2019 04:56 PM The Border Patrol has bigger failings to fix than some of its agents’ participation in a secret, hateful Facebook group exposed by the investigative news organization ProPublica. Consider these: ▪ Agents are still separating children from family members at the border despite an executive order signed by President Donald Trump reneging on his own directive to do …
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN JUNE 28, 2019 05:39 PM The United States government can resume paying for educational, legal, and recreational services at facilities like the Homestead detention center, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. Congress passed — and President Donald Trump has indicated he will sign — a $2.88 billion emergency supplemental appropriations legislation this week. This comes …
MANUEL MADRID | JUNE 27, 2019 | 8:00AM Months before President Donald Trump announced plans for massive immigration raids, members of his administration were busy cooking up plans to deport asylum-seeking families released into the United States. Their solution? Create expedited dockets for newly arrived families in ten immigration courts in cities including Miami, Houston, San Francisco, and Chicago. These “rocket dockets” fast-track the …
By ALEJANDRA MARTINEZ & CHRIS REMINGTON JUN 25, 2019 Democratic candidates are in South Florida ahead of the first Democratic presidential debates taking place Wednesday and Thursday nights in Miami. The topic of immigration is already front and center. Candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman from Texas, and Eric Swalwell, a representative from California, have planned visits to the Homestead Childhood Detention Facility, …
Libby Torres Jun. 25, 2019, 5:50 PM With conditions for immigrants at the border quickly becoming controversial, many celebrities are donating to organizations like the ACLU or Texas-based nonprofit RAICES that are working to help immigrants in need. Celebrities have also been quick to use their platforms (especially on social media) to speak out against the conditions at the border as …
Speak up. Donate. Educate yourself. Vote. By The Editorial Board June 24, 2019 The United States needs an immigration policy that combines border security, justice and humanity. No one with a conscience can look at the photo of an asylum seeker and his 23-month-old daughter lying dead on the bank of the Rio Grande and accept the status quo. That single tragedy, reminiscent …
BY ROSE MINUTAGLIO AND MADISON FELLER JUN 24, 2019 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez likened detention centers at the U.S. border to “concentration camps” during an Instagram live last week and followed up her statement with a series of tweets calling to #CloseTheCamps and #AbolishICE. Her comments ignited a debate over whether the term “concentration camp” was the appropriate nomenclature for the facilities where migrant children are being taken from their families …
By Daniel Alvarenga June 20, 2019 AI Justice Detention Program Director, Jessica Shulruff Schneider discusses the inhumane conditions inside immigration detention facilities with Daniel Alvarenga from AJ+. Watch via AJ+ here.
