by Kelly Rissman | Aug 1, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
DETROIT–Protestors championing immigrant rights tried to shut down the Detroit-Windsor international tunnel ahead of the second Democratic presidential debate Wednesday, leading to arrests by Detroit police. Some 100 protestors chanted, “No hate no fear,...
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by Andre Earls | Jul 31, 2019 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – Nearly 1,000 teenagers in yellow shirts and carrying yellow and white signs saying “Protect Immigrant Rights” rallied near the Capitol Reflecting Pool Thursday to protest immigrant treatment in detention facilities and raids against undocumented workers....
by Kelly Rissman | Jul 26, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Democrats challenged the head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the agency’s “culture of cruelty” at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. CBP Chief Carla Provost repeatedly denied the notion of a toxic culture at her agency....
by Amanda Horowitz | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan told a House committee Thursday “incendiary and overwrought attacks on the men and women securing our border” are “damaging,” saying border agents are dealing with an “unprecedented...
by Josephine Chu | Jul 17, 2019 | Immigration
WASHINGTON – Despite a comparison to concentration camps that some Jewish groups consider offensive, some others are embracing the term to take action against the immigration detention centers at the U.S.–Mexico border. The use of the term “concentration...
by Matt Reynolds | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) said Friday that conditions at the Texas border facilities they visited earlier this month were grim and need immediate action. Representatives Ayanna Pressley...
