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Cheryl Little On election night I sat with several bright, energetic and hardworking young immigrants, each with boundless promise, who broke down and sobbed uncontrollably. It was heartbreaking. Since the election our phones have been ringing off the hook with calls from immigrant youth terrified that they’re about to be deported. Countless kids all across America have lost hope that …
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Cheryl Little, Executive Director, Americans for Immigrant Justice In the past few days, we have heard our new President deliver on many of his promises: close the border, create a massive “deportation force,” ban Muslims from entering our country. The latest blow came yesterday when Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Giménez ordered county jail officials to keep immigrants jailed until Immigration …
By TIM PADGETT FEB 11, 2017 Khizr Khan is the immigrant Gold Star father who denounced presidential candidate Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention. Before receiving an award Friday night in Miami, he spoke with WLRN about immigration controversies national – and local. Pakistani-Americans Khan and his wife lost their U.S. Army officer son Humayun Khan in Iraq when he confronted …
Cheryl Little on Trump’s recent immigration speech. Watch the show here.
August 14, 2016 MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo spoke to Local 10 News Monday about the future of Haitians who depend on temporary protected status, known as TPS. The congressman, as well as advocates and lawyers, listened, learned and brainstormed ways to help some 50,000 Haitians whose temporary protected status in the U.S. ends in January. “There’s been tremendous insecurity in the community about …
BY ESTHER YU-HSI LEE JUL 26, 2016 Last month, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency quietly deported dozens of African immigrants who were trying to seek asylum in the United States. Sixty-three men who were unable to secure visas to stay in the country legally on humanitarian relief claims, according to a source within ICE who spoke to ThinkProgress on …
BY CHERYL LITTLE [email protected] The Miami Herald’s June 27th story, An inside look at what happens to children after crossing the U.S. border, offers a rare glimpse inside the daily lives of unaccompanied Central American children in Office of Refugee Resettlement custody. The temporary, 800-bed Homestead facility is in addition to two local permanent shelters in South Florida. For almost two decades …
BRENDA MEDINA [email protected] Los coordinadores de una organización sin fines de lucro en Texas no tardaron en darse cuenta del orden de las prioridades de las familias inmigrantes centroamericanas que buscan refugio en Estados Unidos. “Hacíamos las citas con los abogados para consulta gratuita, estábamos esperando en el despacho de abogado y las madres no llegaban a la cita”, contó …
