For the country’s only test run of the 2020 census, leaders in Rhode Island’s Providence County are struggling to drum up participation among one of the hardest-to-count populations in the U.S.: unauthorized immigrants. […] “It’s the elephant in the room,” says Gabriela Domenzain, director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University in Providence, R.I. “This is why our state has continued to have the representation it has at the federal level because Latinos, just like they do many places in the U.S., are making up for the fact that folks are getting older and not having children.”
Gabriela Domenzain, executive director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University, said that she believes that President Donald Trump is using TPS removals as part of his overall political strategy. […] “People have been here for 20 years and you mean to tell me that because the hurricane damage is over that they have no reason to be protected from Honduras!?” she said. “Tegucigalpa [Honduras’ capital] had more murders than Iraq [from 2014 through 2016] even though it’s one-third the size. This is not a stable country.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed S2678a, which will allow DACA recipients to continue driving legally in Rhode Island. The DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program has been terminated by President Donald Trump, leaving thousands of young Rhode Islanders, known as “Dreamers,” who were brought to this country as children, at risk of losing their ability to drive in our state.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the nation’s immigration judges to end their practice of temporarily removing cases from their dockets without issuing decisions. Immigrant advocates say the move is part of a broader strategy to influence the immigration courts, which fall under the purview of the Department of Justice, in order to hasten the removal of some immigrants.
The Trump administration is exploring holding children caught crossing the border on military bases, signaling the latest effort to move forward with plans to split up families who cross the border illegally. According to a Defense Department official, staffers from the Department of Health and Human Services have begun informally looking at three sites in Texas and one in Little Rock, Arkansas. No official request has been submitted.
In an effort to prevent future foreign meddling in elections, Facebook has begun rolling out a fix: Anyone who wants to buy a political or issue ad in the United States must have a Social Security number along with a U.S. passport or valid driver’s license. But the social media giant’s new authentication procedures aren’t just stopping Russian meddling; they’re also effectively banning an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States from buying political ads on any topic — including immigration.
Goodlatte’s proposal would have just three-year renewals of permits like those under DACA, which protected young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, with no path to citizenship for those immigrants in exchange for a host of aggressive anti-illegal immigration measures as well as steep cuts to legal immigration. Though there may be further changes to the bill, it remains the most aggressive and farthest to the right of any legislative proposal on the issue.
A federal appeals court in California grappled on Tuesday with a case regarding the Trump administration’s legal justifications for terminating DACA, the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from deportation.
Ten years ago, on May 12, 2008, our town of Postville, Iowa, was turned upside down. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrived by helicopters and arrested 389 workers at Agriprocessors, a local meat-packaging plant, and our town has never recovered […] Parishioners at my Catholic parish, St. Bridget, still talk about that frightful day and the fear that it could happen to us again. The scary scene at the plant that morning — helicopters and sheriff cars, armed ICE agents and news cameras — spilled into chaos across the community as children searched for their parents and families, agonized that deportation would rip them apart.
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