President Trump said on Tuesday that he wants to put the United States up for sale. He proposed a program that would let rich people buy $5 million “gold cards” that would entitle them to permanent legal residency and eventual citizenship.
DetailsPolitico reported today that it had found a 26-page document sent to the Trump Administration by a group of military contractors laying out a plan to arrest and deport 12 million immigrants in two years.
DetailsA group of Venezuelans with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) today sued the Trump administration over its unprecedented attempt to strip hundreds of thousands of migrants of lawful immigration status.
DetailsU.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is bravely taking heat from the Trump Administration for informing immigrants of their Constitutional rights. On her website and with a Facebook webinar, published flyers and through her office, she is working to make sure that immigrants know what to do if they are confronted by immigration agents.
DetailsPope Francis today forcefully defended immigrants and refugees against the Trump Administration’s dehumanizing attacks and mass-deportation campaign. He reminded the world – and the United States in particular – that immigrants and refugees possess “the infinite and transcendent dignity of every human person.”
DetailsChris Newman, Legal Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), tackles immigration, the Democrats, the current calamity – and how we’ll try to get out of it – in a new, deep-diving conversation with Daniel Denvir, the author and educator, on Denvir’s podcast, “The Dig.”
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