May 25, 2018 Trump may not have built his wall but he is effectively deterring immigration through detentions, deportations, separations, threats and a culture of fear, writes Bette Browne. WITHOUT putting up a single brick of his proposed wall against immigrants, US President Donald Trump is deterring them from entering the country by deporting thousands of other immigrants already in …
WITHOUT IMMIGRATION REFORM, EVEN THOSE HERE LEGALLY ARE IN DANGER OF DEPORTATION – THE MIAMI HERALD
By Cheryl Little May 14, 2018 Fifteen months after taking office, President Trump is fulfilling his pledge to build a “great, beautiful” wall to keep immigrants out. Even if no concrete is ever poured, the wall is effectively being built through executive orders, procedural changes, detentions and deportations. The government is chipping away at fundamental laws and policies that protect …
¿TIENE TPS Y NO QUIERE IRSE DE EEUU? ESTOS ABOGADOS DE INMIGRACIÓN LO ASESORARÁN GRATIS
POR DANIEL SHOER ROTH 11 de mayo de 2018 En los últimos meses el presidente Donald Trump ha retirado protecciones legales a cientos de miles de inmigrantes que tienen el Estatus de Protección Temporal (TPS). La cancelación del TPS a hondureños, salvadoreños, haitianos y nicaragüenses, ha sumido a estas familias en la incertidumbre sobre su futuro. ¿Deben marcharse a sus países de …
U.S. REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT OFFICES CLOSE AS FLOW OF ARRIVALS DRIES UP UNDER TRUMP – UNIVISION NEWS
This year barely 20,000 refugees are expected to be allowed into the U.S., compared to more than 100,000 in past years. As a result, the Trump administration is cutting funding to non-profit groups who help resettle them. By David Adams April 24, 2018 The Trump administration’s policy to curtail the flow of refugees into the U.S. is causing refugee resettlement …
SOUTH FLORIDA LAWYERS FEAR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SQUEEZING ASYLUM SEEKERS – WLRN
BY TIM PADGETT MAR 28, 2017 Typically, when people are in the court system they want their cases heard as quickly as possible. But asylum requests are different. Building an asylum case usually involves the long and daunting task of gathering evidence from other countries. And here in South Florida that often means developing regions like Central America. So lawyers usually expect …
SEVEN MIAMI ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY – MIAMI NEW TIMES
By Taylor Estape March 6, 2018 Since the earliest iteration of the feminist movement, the fight for femme equality and justice has been a push-and-pull of progress and setbacks. Even as activism claimed victories in legislation for suffrage, birth control, and equal pay, issues that specifically affected women of color, immigrant women, and transgender women, among others, have consistently been …
SYMPOSIUM EXPLORES DACA’S LEGAL AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS – DUKE TODAY
By Pablo Mino March 4, 2018 While immigration activists have focused on the implications of ending DACA and its political, legal and humanitarian consequences, scholars at a Duke panel Friday cautioned that the DACA concerns were part of a larger, troubling move against immigrants who are long-time residents of the United States. The symposium organized by the Center of Latin …
EXCESSIVE FORCE: ICE SHACKLED 92 SOMALIS FOR 40 HOURS ON A FAILED DEPORTATION FLIGHT – THE INTERCEPT
By Maryam Saleh March 4, 2018 For a brief moment in December 2017, the international spotlight shined on the case of 92 deportees who were on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-chartered flight to Somalia. Most such flights unload their human cargo once they land, but this flight, for logistical reasons, returned home — and brought witnesses back with it. The Somalis …
WHAT TO DO IF AN IMMIGRATION OR BORDER PATROL OFFICER CONFRONTS YOU – THE MIAMI HERALD
By Daniel Shoer Roth January 26, 2018 The anti-immigrant rhetoric and some decisions of the Donald Trump government have revived the fear of immigration raids and mass deportations in the United States. Recently, agents of the Office of Immigration and Customs (ICE) raided a dozens of 7-Eleven stores nationwide on suspicion of hiring undocumented immigrants. And in South Florida, U.S. …
TRUMP DEALS HAITI ANOTHER BLOW, ENDING PARTICIPATION IN GUEST WORKER PROGRAM – THE MIAMI HERALD
By Jacqueline Charles January 17, 2018 The Trump administration has slapped Haiti again. As of Thursday, Haitian farmers and other laborers seeking to come to the United States as temporary, seasonal workers under the federal H-2A and H-2B guest worker program, will no longer be eligible. The temporary workers’ visa has for decades allowed hundreds of U.S. farmers, hoteliers and other …