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 …
DACA, HURRICANE IRMA, AND YOUNG AMERICANS’ DREAMS DEFERRED – THE NEW YORKER
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 …
DREAMERS WAIT ANXIOUSLY FOR TRUMP’S DECISION ON DACA PROGRAM – LOCAL 10
By Andrea Torres September 01, 2017 MIAMI – Monica Lazaro has defied all odds. After graduating from Coral Gables High School, her 40-year-old mom died of cancer. Students organized a fundraiser and with the help of an anonymous donor she was able to study biology at Miami-Dade College and Florida International University. Lazaro is working as a research associate at Nova Southeastern University. …
MIAMI LEADERS LINE UP TO SUPPORT ‘DREAMERS’ AND ASK TRUMP TO DO THE SAME – THE MIAMI HERALD
By Alex Harris and Kyra Gurney August 30, 2017 With the future of a program that protects undocumented young people from deportation in question, leaders of Miami-Dade lined up Wednesday to voice their support for “Dreamers” and reassure scared kids that the community has their back. For the past five years, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. by their parents …
ATTY. GEN. SESSIONS AGAIN ATTACKS CHICAGO AND OTHER ‘SANCTUARY’ CITIES – LA TIMES
August 16, 2017 Joseph Tanfani Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions on Wednesday ripped Chicago for its defiant “sanctuary city” stance against turning over local prisoners for deportation, once again blaming the city’s surge in crime on policies designed to protect immigrants. Speaking in Miami, where county authorities hold prisoners for federal immigration agents, Sessions said sanctuary policies are an example of “lawlessness” and …
FORGET ABOUT THE “BAD HOMBRES,” TRUMP TARGETS AMERICA’S MOST VULNERABLE IMMIGRANTS – THE HUFFINGTON POST
July 13, 2017 In recent weeks, it has become increasingly clear that Trump’s massive deportation machine is not targeting the “bad hombres.” Instead, hard working, long-term residents who pay taxes and have U.S. citizen children are in the crosshairs. Arrests of non-criminal undocumented immigrants increased by 150% between February and May 2017 compared to the same time a year ago. …
EMPRESARIO HISPANO DONA MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE DÓLARES PARA OFRECER ASISTENCIA LEGAL A INDOCUMENTADOS – PRIMER IMPACTO
July 3, 2017 Watch here.Ver aqui. Mike Fernández es uno de los hombres más ricos de Florida y, como muchos inmigrantes, llegó a Estados Unidos sin papeles. Asegura que entiende perfectamente el miedo que viven los indocumentados cuando cruzan la frontera. Por ello, ha puesto en marcha una iniciativa para recaudar cinco millones de dólares que destinará a ayudar a …
IMMIGRATION ACTIVISTS AND LAWYERS OFFER HAITIANS HOPE, VOWING TPS FIGHT IS NOT OVER
By Jacqueline Charles June 2, 2017 For 29 years, Evette Prosper has called the United States home. It’s where she attended school, got married and gave birth to two children, now 8 and 7. An only child, Prosper doesn’t know where her father is. And both her Haitian mother, and her grandmother — who migrated with her from Haiti when …
HAITIANS IN U.S. GET SLIGHT REPRIEVE BUT WORRY ABOUT FUTURE
By Anthony Man and Mike Clary May 22, 2017 A humanitarian program that has allowed Haitians to legally live and work in the U.S. after a series of calamities befell their country was extended Monday until January — a move that fell far short of the hopes of Haitian-American community leaders and a range of Florida elected officials. “It’s bad news. We are …
HAITIANS WORRIED ABOUT DEPORTATION SHOULD START PLANNING NOW, LAWYERS SAY
By Jacqueline Charles May 19, 2017 [email protected] Starting in February, Haitians began showing up at the low-cost health center run by Borinquen Medical Centers of Miami-Dade worrying about what they’ll do if the federal government ends the program that protects them from deportation. Anxious and scared, they’re searching for answers if the Trump administration decides they must return to Haiti, …