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    Today’s Violence in New Zealand a Horrific Example of the Consequences of Islamophobia and White Supremacy

    Today’s Violence in New Zealand a Horrific Example of the Consequences of Islamophobia and White Supremacy

    Published Mar 15, 2019 LOS ANGELES — At least 49 Muslim worshippers were killed this morning in an act of mass violence perpetrated by a white supremacist in Christchurch, New Zealand. The attack has been condemned by domestic and global...

    Senate Rebukes Trump’s Attempts to Subvert Congress to Fund Border Wall

    Senate Rebukes Trump’s Attempts to Subvert Congress to Fund Border Wall

    Published Mar 14, 2019 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate today passed a resolution to reverse President Trump’s February national emergency declaration.

    Congress Must Prioritize Passing the Dream and Promise Act, Protect as Many People as Possible

    Congress Must Prioritize Passing the Dream and Promise Act, Protect as Many People as Possible

    Published Mar 12, 2019 WASHINGTON — House Democrats led by Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Nydia Velázquez (NY-07), and Yvette Clarke (NY-09) today announced the introduction of the Dream and Promise...

    Medicare for All Act Is a Roadmap to a Better Future

    Medicare for All Act Is a Roadmap to a Better Future

    Published Feb 27, 2019 WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and more than 100 cosponsors today introduced the Medicare for All Act, a bill to ensure that every person in the country — regardless of where they were born or their immigration status — can...

    Lawsuit Alleges ICE Agents Violated Workers’ Constitutional Rights Against Racial Profiling and Illegal Seizure

    Lawsuit Alleges ICE Agents Violated Workers’ Constitutional Rights Against Racial Profiling and Illegal Seizure

    Published Feb 21, 2019 KNOXVILLE — The National Immigration Law Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the law firm of Sherrard, Roe, Voigt & Harbison filed a lawsuit today on behalf of seven workers detained during an April 2018 immigration raid at an East...

    Trump Refuses to Listen to Taxpayers, Congress and Declares State of Emergency on Manufactured Crisis

    Trump Refuses to Listen to Taxpayers, Congress and Declares State of Emergency on Manufactured Crisis

    Published Feb 15, 2019 WASHINGTON — Shortly after signing a federal spending package that includes billions of dollars for additional border militarization and ramped-up immigration enforcement, and following the longest partial government shutdown in history,...

    The Latest Homeland Security Funding “Deal” Hurts Us All

    The Latest Homeland Security Funding “Deal” Hurts Us All

    Published Feb 14, 2019 WASHINGTON — With the threat of another partial government shutdown looming, a bicameral congressional conference committee released a proposal late last night to fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the remainder of this...

    Barr Will Continue Sessions’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda in Justice Department

    Barr Will Continue Sessions’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda in Justice Department

    Published Feb 13, 2019 WASHINGTON — Following a series of hearings, the Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved the nomination of William Barr to be U.S. attorney general.

    Groups File FOIA Request to Demand Transparency on Implementation of “Remain in Mexico” Policy

    Groups File FOIA Request to Demand Transparency on Implementation of “Remain in Mexico” Policy

    Published Feb 8, 2019 WASHINGTON — Advocacy groups are seeking information regarding the Trump administration’s recent changes to the asylum process at the southern border, which have been outlined only in vague terms so far but promise to significantly change...

    At State of the Union Address, Trump Again Turns to Stoking Fear on Manufactured Border Crisis

    At State of the Union Address, Trump Again Turns to Stoking Fear on Manufactured Border Crisis

    Published Feb 5, 2019 WASHINGTON — In his second State of the Union Address and on the heels of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, President Trump once again turned to fearmongering, dehumanizing immigrants, and touting the crisis he manufactured at...

    Marco Villada, Dreamer Once Stranded in Mexico, to Attend State of the Union Address

    Marco Villada, Dreamer Once Stranded in Mexico, to Attend State of the Union Address

    Published Feb 4, 2019 WASHINGTON — Marco Villada, a former DACA recipient whose life was turned upside down by an injustice that separated him from his husband and left him stranded in Mexico for half a year, will attend the State of the Union Address on Tuesday...

    President Trump Accepts Short-Term Bill to Reopen Government Without Border Wall Funding

    President Trump Accepts Short-Term Bill to Reopen Government Without Border Wall Funding

    Published Jan 25, 2019 WASHINGTON — More than one month into a White House–driven government shutdown — by far the longest in U.S. history — President Trump announced today that he would finally agree to a bill to temporarily reopen the government and pay...

    Supreme Court Declines to Take Up DACA Cases This Term

    Supreme Court Declines to Take Up DACA Cases This Term

    Published Jan 22, 2019 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the Trump administration’s attempts to rush a review of legal challenges to the termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, this...

    Trump’s So-called “Deal” to End the Shutdown Is a List of Hostage Demands

    Trump’s So-called “Deal” to End the Shutdown Is a List of Hostage Demands

    Published Jan 19, 2019 WASHINGTON — In a televised speech from the White House today — a month into a partial government shutdown — President Trump proposed a one-sided “deal” to reopen the government in exchange for $5.7 billion in taxpayer dollars for a...

    Trump Obsessed with Vanity Wall and Willing to Hurt Millions of People to Get It

    Trump Obsessed with Vanity Wall and Willing to Hurt Millions of People to Get It

    Published Jan 8, 2019 WASHINGTON — As the government shutdown drags into its third week, President Trump gave a speech on prime-time network television Tuesday evening in a desperate attempt to secure funding for his border wall...