The Trump administration has been engaging in systematic attacks against our immigrant neighbors whom we pledged to protect. President Trump terminated the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, turning our nation’s back on undocumented immigrant youth who are valued members of our communities. DACA has protected nearly 800,000 immigrant […]
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President Trump has rewritten his executive order to: Ban refugees from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Mali, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and stateless Palestinians for 90 days, in addition to the 120 day refugee ban that expired on October 24th. Indefinitely suspend the following to join process […]
On January 27, 2017 the Trump Administration released Executive Orders banning individuals from seven (then six) Muslim-majority countries and all refugees from entering the country. Thousands took to the streets and flooded airports where people from Muslim-majority countries and refugees were being detained and, in many cases, sent back. Since […]
The deadline for DHS to decide whether to extend TPS for El Salvador is due January 8, 2018. Join us in urging the administration to extend El Salvador’s TPS designation for at least 18 months. El Salvador remains unable to adequately handle the safe return of nearly 200,000 Salvadoran TPS […]
Last night, the Department of Homeland Security made the deeply disturbing decision to end TPS for Haitians, following the recent TPS terminations for Sudan and Nicaragua. A 2010 earthquake devastated Haiti, and since then subsequent natural disasters have marred Haiti’s recovery. Public health crises such as the cholera epidemic, in […]