daca
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Someone Must Have Explained to Trump How DACA Works, Because Now He’s All In
Partly because nothing can ever be easy in this administration, and partly because the president of the United States has no clue what he’s doing, the pendulum has shifted back in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. That’s right: President Donald von WallBuilder, who commanded his minions to destroy DACA, is now backtracking and…
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University Finds Harassment Campaign Against DACA Student to Be ‘Free Speech’
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, 5:06 p.m. EDT: The student who launched an online campaign urging people to report DACA student Paola Garcia is no longer enrolled at Transylvania University. According to BuzzFeed, university officials said Wednesday in an email that Taylor Ragg was no longer enrolled, and declined to give additional information. Earlier: Transylvania…
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Undocumented Black Immigrants May Fare Worse Without DACA Protections
Tobore Oweh knows the next six months of her life will be stressful after Donald Trump’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Tuesday. She is one of 800,000 people covered under the Obama-era policy who fears the worst if Congress doesn’t come together to resolve the crisis Trump created. She and…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Calls Out ‘The First White President’
Claim: Racism Made Trump; the Left Won’t Say It Blacks, Hispanics Are Third of Radio Audience NAHJ to Review Partnership With Calif. Group DACA Revocation Unpopular With Editorial Boards Omarosa Laughs Off Worries About Access to Trump ‘Jason Whitlock Doesn’t Care About Black People’ Back to ‘Explaining Indians to White People’ Slaying in India an…
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15 States, DC Sue Trump Administration Over the End of DACA
On Wednesday, 15 states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. government over the president’s plan to remove protections against deportation for young immigrants, alleging that it was motivated by prejudice against Mexicans. According to the Boston Herald, legal experts do not believe the evidence is strong enough to support a claim of bias…
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Fear and Uncertainty for People Living Under DACA Now That Their Fates Rest With Congress
Cinthya Zapata came to the United States from Mexico and settled in Austin, Texas, with her family when she was only 2 years old. No one from her family lives in their old town of Toluca anymore. So if Congress, over the next six months, doesn’t come up with a solution to Donald Trump’s plan…
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Top Native American News Site on ‘Hiatus’
‘Alternative Business Models’ Under Consideration DACA Repeal Could Mean Journalist Deportations Reporter on Harvey Helps Deliver a Baby Omarosa’s Access to Trump Curtailed, Report Says Peter Bhatia Named Editor of Detroit Free Press 300 Readers Pledge Intolerance of Hate, Racism Philly Columnist Wants Rizzo Statue Gone Sheridan Broadcasting Cuts News, Sports Division N. Korea Gives…
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Obama Blasts Trump on DACA and Reminds Us What a Real President Looks Like
If it wasn’t bad enough that the current president is a horrible evil racist with dictator ambitions, former President Barack Obama has posted a message about the Trump administration’s recent decision to rescind the immigration order that shielded children brought into this country as minors by undocumented parents from being deported and got us all…
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They Know They Can’t Win; They Just Want Black and Brown People to Lose Too
Perhaps the biggest fallacy in characterizing the type of person who supported and still supports Donald Trump—one that I’ve been guilty of believing and sharing myself—is that the type of person he appeals to lacks the sophistication to realize that his promises of returning long-dead American jobs in steel and coal and manufacturing aren’t just…
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Trump Ends DACA Because He Hates Us All
On Tuesday the Trump administration formally announced that it has rescinded the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, because it’s clear now that the Trump administration, from the bottom of its evil fire-burned feet to the very top of the last horn, hates us all. “I am here today to announce that…