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Tension between ranchers and CBP heightens amid push for border wall

Tension between ranchers and CBP heightens amid push for border wall

by Elizabeth Beyer | Jul 4, 2018 | Featured, Immigration

TUCSON, Arizona – More than a dozen ranchers who own or control a combined 100 miles on the border between Arizona and Mexico say the number of migrants crossing their land after they enter the U.S. illegally was on the decline before the Trump administration, but...
Tens of Thousands Protest Trump Immigration Policies Nationwide

Tens of Thousands Protest Trump Immigration Policies Nationwide

by Holly Honderich | Jul 3, 2018 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON –Thousands of protesters clad in white and armed with signs denouncing President Donald Trump rallied Saturday in more than 90-degree heat against the Trump administration’s immigration policy and the “zero-tolerance” approach that has separated children...
Latino activists — and their kids — protest family separations at immigration rally

Latino activists — and their kids — protest family separations at immigration rally

by Xiaozhang (Shaw) Wan | Jul 2, 2018 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON – Despite temperatures that soared above 90, the “Families Belong Together” rally drew tens of thousands of people to Washington this weekend, including some not even old enough to carry a sign or shout a slogan. The children and grown-ups...
Gazette victims’ names likely to go on Journalists Memorial

Gazette victims’ names likely to go on Journalists Memorial

by Loumay Alesali & Guilia Petroni | Jun 30, 2018 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – The names of the Capital Gazette journalists killed Thursday in Annapolis likely will be placed on the Newseum’s Journalists Memorial next year, the head of the Freedom Forum Institute said Friday. “I would think that the nature of this, the tragedy, the...
Thousands gather for family unification in D.C. protest

Thousands gather for family unification in D.C. protest

by Ashley Graham | Jun 30, 2018 | Immigration

WASHINGTON– Nearly ten thousand protestors from around the country marched outside the White House and the Capitol for immigration reform. The protest formed in response to President Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy, which resulted in the...
Sessions’ “zero-tolerance” on asylum: One woman’s story

Sessions’ “zero-tolerance” on asylum: One woman’s story

by Elizabeth Beyer | Jun 29, 2018 | Featured, Immigration

TUCSON, Arizona – Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced domestic violence is no longer grounds for migrants to gain asylum earlier this month as a part of his zero-tolerance immigration policy. One woman, who fled her home country with her son to escape that...
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