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By Salvador Hernandez December 3, 2017 As Hurricane Irma barreled toward Florida in the early days of September, immigration advocates and public safety officials raised concerns that people living in the US illegally would not seek help or shelter for fear that doing so would expose them to arrest and possible deportation. Hoping to ease those fears, the US Department of …
By Frank Gluck December 2, 2017 Jean Phillipe came to Fort Myers in 2010 as a teenager fleeing the ravages of an earthquake-devastated Haiti. Since then, he’s found full-time work as a medical translator for the Lee Health hospital system — a good job that he had hoped to keep for years to come. But recent changes to U.S. immigration policy …
December 2, 2017 FORT MYERS, Fla. — Ten thousand Haitian immigrants in Southwest Florida will face deportation due to the non-renewal of the Temporary Protection Status. Lee Memorial Hospital hosted a free legal clinic, Saturday, to help families impacted know their rights. The hospital partnered with Americans For Immigrant Justice Organization led by attorney, Adonia Simpson, to offer individual meetings …
By Michael R. Malone November 29, 2017 Highlighting the economic vibrancy and cultural richness that immigrants have brought and bring to the U.S. “yesterday and today,” an inspired coalition of Miami business, education, religious, and political leaders held a half-day forum November 28 at the UM Newman Alumni Center aimed at forging sensible immigration policy to “Keep the American Dream …
By Jacqueline Charles, Julie K. Brown and Lance Dixon November 21, 2017 South Florida community leaders Tuesday decried the Trump administration’s decision to return nearly 60,000 Haitians to their quake-ravaged homeland, calling it “heartbreaking” and “shameful” while vowing that their fight has just begun. “We all know that Haiti is not ready to absorb so many of its children,” said Gepsie Metellus, …
BY JANETTE VAZQUEZ November 02, 2017 Figuring out a path forward for the 800,000 students who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was the subject of a recent conference at Barry University. “These people are terrified about not knowing how to plan for the future. You have a pretty significant population who was given a …
October 20, 2017 Since President Trump took office, each day seems to present new challenges for immigrants seeking safety and freedom in America. These past two weeks were no exception. On October 8, the White House released a laundry list of cruel and nativist “Immigration Principles and Policies,” the most draconian anti-immigrant document since the infamous Immigration Act of 1924, …
October 5, 2017 WASHINGTON (CBSMiami) — As many as 48,000 so called Dreamers, undocumented students and workers who came to the U.S. as children, and had been protected from deportation by the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) policy, now face the prospect of immediate detention and deportation. Among 154,000 Dreamers whose eligibility had or would expire, did not apply …
By Christine Dolen September 21, 2017 Even before the election that transformed billionaire reality TV star Donald J. Trump into the 45th president of the United States, playwright Robert Schenkkan was so disturbed by the candidate’s anti-immigrant rhetoric that he decided to respond. Not with a tweet. Not with an opinion-page essay. The Pulitzer Prize winner spoke back to candidate …
By Edwidge Danticat September 6, 2017 A few months ago, I spent an evening listening to the stories of some Miami-based Dreamers, bright and engaging young people who were brought to the United States by their parents when they were children, and who’d been undocumented until June of 2012, when President Barack Obama signed the executive order DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood …
