SHARED CRISIS, SHARED SOLUTIONS State and Local Advocacy for an Immigrant-Inclusive Response to the COVID-19 Crisis APRIL 2020 The COVID-19 public health crisis has affected everyone living and working in the United States, no matter where they were born. The responses to this pandemic must address the needs of all community members, regardless of their [...]
Stakes Are Huge for Hundreds of Thousands and Their Communities after Today’s Supreme Court Argument THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Trudy Rebert NOVEMBER 12, 2019 Departing the U.S. Supreme Court into a cold fall day, dozens of people whose lives are in the balance — plaintiffs, their mothers, and other Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients [...]
How ICE Blurs the Line between Enforcement of Civil Immigration Violations and Enforcement of Criminal Laws THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Joan Friedland AUGUST 27, 2019 When Congress heads back to Washington, DC, after its long August recess, it will resume the ongoing debate over how many taxpayer dollars the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should [...]
Lessons from East Tennessee A Toolkit for Organizations Responding to Mass Worksite Immigration Raids MAY 2019 Prepared by Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition and National Immigration Law Center On April 5, 2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a massive worksite raid in Bean Station, Tennessee, outside of Morristown, arresting nearly 100 workers at [...]
Funding for ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Is Funding for Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda APRIL 2019 Prepared by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the National Immigration Law Center I. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI): An Overview As the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policies have increasingly come under scrutiny, Homeland Security Investigations [...]
Redacted National Vetting Center Implementation Plan Raises More Concerns Than It Answers THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Joan Friedland JANUARY 31, 2019 The Trump administration recently released a redacted version of its implementation plan (dated August 2018 but not released until December 2018) for a newly created National Vetting Center (NVC). The NVC project was first announced [...]
Trump’s Wall Demands Hurt People Already Hurting the Most THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Holly Straut-Eppsteiner JANUARY 14, 2019 The Trump shutdown has left more than 800,000 federal workers across the country facing the post-holiday season with no paycheck and a great deal of uncertainty. Members of the federal workforce suddenly find themselves unable to pay for [...]
FLEXING THEIR EXECUTIVE MUSCLE How Governors and Attorneys General Can Use Their Authority to Support and Protect Immigrants Last updated DECEMBER 3, 2018 At the federal level, the Trump administration has launched unprecedented attacks on immigrants’ ability to live, work, and remain in the United States. Largely unchecked by Congress, the administration has demonized and [...]
INFORMATION VACUUMING The Trump Administration Is Collecting Massive Amounts of Data for Its Immigrant Surveillance and Deportation Machine THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Joan Friedland AUGUST 22, 2018 The Trump administration is vacuuming up vast amounts of unfiltered information about immigrants and United States citizens in the service of its immigrant surveillance and deportation machine. Here are [...]
Trump’s Proposed Immigration Rule Would Harm All of Us THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Jenny Rejeske, NILC, and Madison Hardee, CLASP MARCH 29, 2018 On March 28, the Washington Post reported on the latest chapter in the saga of the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant families—a pernicious attempt to force families to make an impossible choice between [...]
