By Jacqueline Charles, April 21, 2017 [email protected] The Trump administration is recommending sending tens of thousands of Haitians back to their homeland because it believes conditions have significantly improved in the disaster-prone, poverty-stricken nation. But the move comes as more than 40,000 Haitians continue to call makeshift shelters and tents homes — seven years after Haiti’s devastating Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake …
KEEP HOPE ALIVE – THE HUFFINGTON POST
Cheryl Little, Executive Director, Americans for Immigrant Justice APR 03, 2017 In recent weeks it has become increasingly clear that President Trump is delivering on his promise to create a massive “deportation force” and crack down on those seeking refuge in our country. The extent to which his directives undermine basic Constitutional principles is shocking and leaves no doubt that …
TRUMP POLICY OF SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM IMMIGRANT PARENTS IS PLAIN EVIL – THE MIAMI HERALD
BY FABIOLA SANTIAGO MAR 28, 2017 [email protected] They’re so scared, these refuge-seekers in President Donald Trump’s America, that their immigration attorney will not even identify the country from which they fled rampant violence. But it was one of Central America’s violent northern triangle countries, meaning Guatemala, Honduras, or El Salvador. “They were running for their lives,” Abel S. Delgado tells me. “This family …
FREE ‘PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE’ WOULD REPRESENT IMMIGRANTS IN DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS – THE MIAMI HERALD
BY ALFONSO CHARDY MARCH 25, 2017 [email protected] A movement is taking shape to create a sort of “public defender’s office” to represent hundreds of thousands of immigrants who may wind up in deportation proceedings and cannot afford an attorney. While the effort is amorphous at this time, and largely focused on certain communities, some nationally known immigration attorneys and advocates — …
AMID CLIMATE OF FEAR FROM TRUMP ORDERS, LIFE GOES ON FOR THE UNDOCUMENTED
BY ALFONSO CHARDY MAR 05, 2017 [email protected] Before the sun peeked above the horizon, dozens of day laborers gathered in the parking lot of a Little Havana Home Depot one morning last week waiting to be picked up to build our homes, mow our lawns or pick the fruits and vegetables we eat. Similar scenes played out at many parking lots …
WHAT HAS TRUMP REALLY ACCOMPLISHED? – POLITICO
BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD FEB 28, 2017 For all the sound and fury of his first 39 days in office, President Donald Trump has not yet dismantled President Obama’s health reforms, Wall Street regulations, or climate rules. He hasn’t started overhauling America’s tax code, rehabbing America’s infrastructure, or building a border wall. But even though Trump has done less to change federal …
ATTORNEYS TAKE CALLS, DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION DUE TO FEARS OVER NEW IMMIGRATION ORDERS – LOCAL10
FEB 22, 2017 Watch the story here: http://www.local10.com/news/attorneys-take-calls-distribute-information-due-to-fears-over-new-immigration-orders-
COLLEGE DREAMS DASHED BY A 17-YEAR-OLD IMMIGRATION PAPERWORK MISTAKE – THE MIAMI HERALD
BY KYRA GURNEY [email protected] When Fort Lauderdale high school senior Minaldy Cadet got his acceptance letter from Boston College in March, he thought the life he had dreamed of was finally within reach. “It was incredible. One of the best feelings ever,” Cadet recalled. “As soon as I saw their email, as soon as I opened it up and read the …
JÓVENES INDOCUMENTADOS PROBARON LA LIBERTAD Y AHORA EL AZOTE DEL MIEDO – EL NUEVO HERALD
BRENDA MEDINA [email protected] A punto de graduarse con su licenciatura en química en el 2012, las posibilidades de empleo para Tomás Pendola parecían nulas. La Universidad Saint Thomas le dio media beca y sus padres se esforzaron para pagar la otra mitad de los estudios. Pero Pendola no podía trabajar. Al menos no legalmente. Llegó a Estados Unidos en el …
THESE ORGANIZATIONS WILL CRITICALLY NEED SUPPORT DURING TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY – HUFFINGTON POST
We need to consider where we’re allocating money, time and energy AI Justice was listed as one of a handful of organizations that “are crucial in the fight for the rights of those most likely to be under attack when President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence take office in January.” Read the article on the Huffington Post here.