Hispanic lawmakers on Tuesday blasted White House chief of staff John Kelly for saying President Trump’s immigration plan would generously help immigrants “too lazy” to apply for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. “The difference between 690 [thousand] and 1.8 million were the people that some would say were too afraid to sign up, […]
Trump’s Chief of Staff comments about ‘lazy’ DREAMers causes controversy with Hispanic lawmakers
February 7, 2018 By
Trump rejects yet another proposal to fix DREAMers’ status
February 6, 2018 By
President Trump rejected a bipartisan immigration plan on Monday — even before it was formally presented by Sens. John McCain and Chris Coons — as lawmakers struggled to resolve an impasse over how to change the system. McCain, R-Ariz., and Coons, D-Del., introduced a legislation that would protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants. It calls […]
Another deadline and the GOP can’t make up its mind on immigration
February 5, 2018 By
Republicans are barreling toward a fight over immigration despite divisions on what the party’s strategy should be. “In all likelihood no, we won’t have a single unified position on that. There will be wide varieties based on where your state is. … We won’t have a single Republican message,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told reporters. GOP lawmakers […]
With DACA in Limbo, so is the future of American Children
February 2, 2018 By
Karen Reyes, a DACA recipient, spends her days teaching a group of deaf toddlers at Lucy Read Pre-Kindergarten School in Austin, Tex., how to understand a world they cannot hear. “There’s so much pressure to be a perfect immigrant,” Ms. Reyes said. “They basically want us to save babies from burning buildings, have a 5.0 […]
LULAC’s President in hot waters for letter endorsing Trump’s immigration plan
February 1, 2018 By
The leader of the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S. said Wednesday he has “rescinded” a letter endorsing President Trump’s immigration framework that includes a border wall after receiving angry criticism from members and activists. “It’s just bad timing because most people think this letter is endorsing what the president said about immigration […]
“No Mr. President, DREAMers are Americans too.”
January 31, 2018 By
President Trump claimed to be calling for Americans to come together on the issue of immigration in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, he couldn’t resist painting immigration as an “us vs. them” struggle. Them: Immigrants, many of them violent gang members or terrorists. Us: native-born American citizens ― pointedly referred to using […]
Congressional Hispanic Caucus says no to Goodlatte bill
January 25, 2018 By
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) slammed a House Republican immigration proposal officially known as the Securing America’s Future Act or as the Goodlatte bill, after sponsor Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) CHC Chairwoman Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) called the proposal the “Mass Deportation Act.” “Instead of supporting the numerous introduced bipartisan bills that reflect our shared values, […]
Motel 6 Sued For Identifying Latino Guests to ICE
January 24, 2018 By
The hospitality chain Motel 6 is facing another lawsuit alleging that it violated the civil rights of Latino immigrants by voluntarily giving guests’ personal information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. The lawsuit filed in Arizona by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund or MALDEF, on behalf of the guests says the […]
Once again the fate of DREAMers is in limbo.
January 23, 2018 By
Senate Democrats wound up voting to reopen the federal government after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reassured Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y) that Senate would vote on some kind of immigration legislation by mid-February. The 81-18 vote allowed a spending bill to fund the government through Feb. 8, reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) […]
There may still be hope for Congress
January 22, 2018 By
After countless meetings and finger-pointing, the three-day government shutdown seems to be coming to an end. Earlier today enough Senate Democrats joined Republicans to advance a three-week extension of funding in exchange for GOP assurances that Congress would take up a larger immigration bill in that time. Schumer announced the agreement shortly ahead of the […]
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