The Justice Department on Tuesday said it will petition the Supreme Court to overturn a judge’s ruling and allow the Trump administration to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by March. “We are now taking the rare step of requesting direct review on the merits of this injunction by the Supreme Court so that […]
Anniversary of DACA Met with Fear It’s Ending
August 15, 2017 By
Although the Trump administration has not touched DACA thus far, Texas and nine other states are threatening to take the administration to court if the program is not brought to an end by the September 5th deadline. The executive director of the immigrants’ rights group CASA in suburban Washington, D.C., Gustavo Torres, has issued a […]
Mayors of ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Fight Back Against Bullying from AG Sessions
March 29, 2017 By
Just three days after a crushing health care defeat, AG Sessions echoed President Trump’s nationalist campaign rhetoric by threatening to cut off sanctuary cities from access to federal funds if they refuse to comply with information sharing with immigration officials. “I urge the nation’s states and cities to carefully consider the harm they are doing […]
Studies Find Immigrants Commit Less Crime than US-born Citizens
March 28, 2017 By
Two prominent criminal justice research and advocacy groups, The Sentencing Project and Cato Institute, released two separate studies this week; their findings indicate immigrants commit fewer crimes and are incarcerated at a much lower rate than U.S. citizens. “All immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than natives relative to their shares of the population,” […]
Comentarios from Maria: Say No to the Separation of Innocent Families
February 21, 2017 By
First they came for the Muslims, and we did not remain silent. Now, our community is under attack by the Trump administration, which is fulfilling its promise of massive deportations and we will not remain silent. Last week, agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began enforcing, under the President’s order, the massive deportations […]
Trump Does It Again, #BadHombres Is Trending
October 20, 2016 By
The focal point of the immigration discussion in the final presidential debate appears to have been Donald Trump’s reference to “bad hombres,” as the candidates once again delved very little into the subject’s details. As Twitter users do, they quickly seized on the phrase and turned it into a couple of hashtags, #badhombres and #badhambres. […]
Clinton and Trump Gear Up For Their Final Presidential Debate
October 19, 2016 By
In their final showdown before voters cast their ballots, presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may focus on some of the hot-topic issues that escaped them in the first two debates. Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon said the Democratic nominee “will be ready for whatever scorched-earth tactics (Trump) tries” in Wednesday’s debate. Moderator Chris Wallace […]
Guest Blogger: Vanessa Cardenas “I am an immigrant like Alicia Machado and I have a message for Trump”
October 4, 2016 By
I am an immigrant, I have an accent, and my mom was a housekeeper. I spent my school breaks making beds, cleaning kitchens, and running vacuums up and down stairs in other people’s houses. And I have a message for Donald Trump: WE VOTE. For decades now, Donald Trump has shown a callous disregard for […]
Comentarios from Maria: Trump demanding Clinton transparency is dishonest hypocrisy
September 19, 2016 By
This campaign season is unorthodox. That is an understatement. But we have also let fester an insidious and dangerous layer of false equivalence and normalization of hate that has settled upon how the campaigns are covered, talked about and perceived. For the good of the voters, it has to stop. What is this false equivalence […]
Fox News Latino Poll Shows Latinos Highly Favor Clinton
August 12, 2016 By
With less than four months to go before Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a commanding 46-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump among Hispanic voters, according to an exclusive poll released Thursday by Fox News Latino. The poll found that 66 percent of registered Latinos would head to the ballot box […]
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