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The Fight Continues: What Muslim Ban 3.0 Means in the Courts and in the Streets
Published Oct 13, 2017 There’s a new ban that prevents Muslims from coming to the U.S. On September 24, 2017, the day that the 90-day ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) was set to expire, the Trump...
The Clock is Ticking, Congress. It’s Time to Pass a Clean Dream Act Now.
Published Oct 5, 2017 The normal day-to-day existence that most of us tend to take for granted now has an expiration date for almost 800,000 young immigrants.
Untangling the Immigration Enforcement Web: New NILC Report Looks at Cooperation Between Local Law Enforcement and Federal Agencies
Published Sep 22, 2017 Immigrants are caught in a complex and opaque web of databases, related systems, and information-sharing mechanisms that make it easier for immigration enforcement to disrupt their lives and prevent them from fully participating in economic and...
Untangling the Immigration Enforcement Web
Published Sep 12, 2017 This resource shares basic information for advocates about databases and information-sharing among federal, state, and local agencies.
They Risked Everything for a Shot at the American Dream. Now, We Must Stand Up and Defend Them.
Published Sep 7, 2017 This week President Trump shut the door on nearly a million young people, and didn’t even have the courage to face their questions. This callous and immoral decision that requires all of us who choose to be on the right side of history to...
Dreamers’ Stories Show What Would Be Lost if DACA Were to End
Published Aug 25, 2017 Getting a driver’s license, finding a job, going to college—these are milestones in life that most of us take for granted, but for more than 800,000 young people, these things are only possible because of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood...
DACA Fifth Anniversary Stories
Published Aug 14, 2017 Most of us want a productive, hopefully meaningful life in which we do work that benefits not only ourselves, but also others—that makes our communities stronger and healthier. But many young people who grew up in the U.S. are facing the kind...
Even Though There Are Legal Threats to DACA, There Is Reason to Be Hopeful
Published Aug 4, 2017 Several legal threats to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have its beneficiaries and prospective applicants understandably worried, but it’s important to remember that there haven’t been any major changes to the...
From Japanese-American Internment Camps to the Muslim Ban: The Terrible Consequences of Discriminatory Executive Orders
Published Jul 26, 2017 “An Executive Order put my family in a Concentration Camp.” That was the sign I carried as I joined thousands of other people at Los Angeles International Airport to protest the executive order of Jan. 27, 2017, that initiated the Trump...
While We’re Watching the Trumpcare Train Wreck, Let’s Not Allow Our Dollars to Fund Trump’s Wall and Deportation Machine
Published Jul 21, 2017 Trump needs our tax dollars to pay for his anti-immigrant agenda, and Congress must approve the federal budget. Now it is up to taxpayers to get the word out to their representatives in Congress that they refuse to fund hate and fear at the...
What Does it Mean That the Supreme Court Asked for the Solicitor General’s View on the Arizona DACA Driver’s License Case?
Published Jul 17, 2017 On June 26, 2017, the Supreme Court issued an invitation for the United States solicitor general to file a brief expressing the federal government’s view of our case Brewer v. Arizona Dream Act...
House Spending Bill Rubber-stamps Trump Deportation Machine
Published Jul 12, 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 12, 2017 CONTACT Hayley Burgess, 202-384-1279, [email protected] House Spending Bill Rubber-stamps Trump Deportation Machine WASHINGTON – The United States House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on...
The Butterfly Story Collective: Social Change Through the Power of Sharing Stories
Patrick O’Shea
Published Oct 27, 2017 It gives Divine hope to know that her story has the power to create change. On an upcoming episode of a new podcast from the Butterfly Story Collective, she shares her personal experience of changing someone’s views on undocumented...