Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Nouvèl”
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
