CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT OUR FAMILIES & SAVE THE CHILDREN
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Los Angeles, April 24, 2020 In a significant victory for immigrant children, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee has determined that the federal government has failed to meet its legal obligations to children in immigration custody during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dozens of immigrant children in federal custody ...
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By: The Opportunity Agenda Families of all forms should be able to be there for each other in times of need, and no one should have to risk their job or financial stability to care for themselves or their loved ones. Especially in this urgent time of COVID-19, it's imperative that everyone – ...
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A private prison company wants to operate an immigration detention center in McFarland, Calif., a town that is home to thousands of undocumented farm workers. By: Miriam Jordan, New York Times – Feb 20, 2020 McFARLAND, Calif. — As an undocumented immigrant, Maribel Ramirez does not officially have a say ...
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A summary decision kicks an untold number of legal immigrants off the path to citizenship… By Linda Greenhouse, Opinion Writer for The New York Times ~ Feb. 13, 2020 The Freudian concept of psychological projection refers to the behavior of people who, unable to acknowledge their own weaknesses, ascribe those same failings to ...
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By: Miriam Jordan ~ The New York Times ~ August 20, 2019 Nearly 35 years ago, long before the current mass influx of Central American families making their way to America’s southern border, a different and more brutal migrant crisis was unfolding. In El Salvador, government death squads were stalking ...
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By Matt A. Barreto ~ The NY Times ~ October 24, 2018 Photo Credit: Mike Blake/Reuters Immigrant children housed in a tent encampment in Tornillo, Tex., in June. When children are being locked away, Republican attacks on immigrants will backfire. Over the past few weeks, on the campaign trail and at ...
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Photo Credit: Erik S Lesser/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. President Trump stops to speak with reporters before heading to a rally in Charlotte on Friday. By Nick Miroff & Maria Sacchetti ~ Washington Post ~ October 26, 2018 President Trump is preparing to announce a sweeping border crackdown in a speech Tuesday, a week ...
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By MSW@USC Staff, March 15, 2018 Living under the perceived threat of detention and deportation is having harmful mental health effects on undocumented immigrants and their families, according to Dr. Concepcion Barrio, associate professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. “It just creates an air of constant fear and ...
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Baja California Sistema Educativo Estatal ~ Miércoles, 23 de mayo de 2018 TIJUANA, B.C.- MIÉRCOLES 23 DE MAYO DE 2018. El Sistema Educativo Estatal (SEE) presentó este día el Proyecto de Colaboración con The California-Mexico Studies Center (Centro de Estudios California-México o CMSC por sus siglas en inglés) en la Escuela Primaria Alfonso Reyes, ...
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By Kristen Hwang, USA TODAY, Sept. 5, 2017 PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Elizabeth Rossil, 11, looks just like her classmates. She wears a neatly pressed red polo shirt and a pleated plaid skirt with Mary Jane shoes — the school uniform that all the girls wear — and pulls her ...