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Immigration
What Does Trump’s Invisible Wall Look Like?
Although the mammoth physical wall envisioned by Trump hasn’t gone up the way he imagined, and although no new laws have actually been passed, the unseen shifts in administrative choices have erected an invisible wall against any immigration, legal or otherwise.
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Child Welfare
Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 12/17/19
Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunities.
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Immigration
Family Detention is Dangerous and Wrong
There is no safe way to detain children and families. This administration’s attempt to expand family detention is dangerous, and the Children’s Defense Fund will continue to fight its cruelty.
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Child Welfare
Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 12/2/19
Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunities.
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Child Welfare
Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 11/18/19
Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunity.
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Child Welfare
DACA Termination Flouts this Nation’s Promise to Children
More than a quarter of a million children have at least one parent who is a DACA recipient. Canceling DACA increases the risk of family separation and is in direct contrast to the fundamental promise of the child welfare system that every child should have the opportunity to grow up in a safe, stable and loving family. The Supreme Court must keep this in mind when weighing the arguments it heard yesterday.
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Immigration
Trump Administration Admits Additional Family Separations
The government told a federal court last month that an additional 1,556 immigrant children and parents were separated at the border under the Trump administration’s evil family separation policy. Families belong together—not torn apart at our border, nor separated within our interior communities. Together.
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Child Welfare
Protecting Immigrant Communities Newsletter: 11/1/19
Here’s the latest roundup of immigration-related news, and our bi-weekly action opportunity.
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Immigration
Going Forward: Who Speaks and Who Listens in the Immigration Conversation?
“When immigrants are under attack, what do we do? Stand up. Fight back!”
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