trump immigration policies
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Migrants as Young as 14 Are Now Being Subjected to an Intrusive DNA Collection Policy…Thanks to the Trump Administration
On Monday, the Trump administration unveiled its controversial pilot program that will collect DNA samples from migrants and immigrants in U.S immigration custody. CBS News reports that the samples will be taken from cheek swabs and used to create comprehensive profiles in a national criminal database managed by the FBI. This program is the introductory…
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Your Racist President Said Haitians ‘All Have AIDS’ and Nigerians Live in ‘Huts’
All the “debate” about whether Donald Trump is really, truly racist should be put to rest now. The man actually opened his mouth in public—as president of the United States—and fixed his flat lips to say that “all Haitians have AIDS and Nigerians live in huts. The New York Times recently published a report about…
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Conservatives Want to #BoycottSanFrancisco After Undocumented Immigrant Acquitted in Death of Kate Steinle
No justice, no San Francisco. Those are the sentiments of conservatives after Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was found not guilty in the death of Kate Steinle, a white woman who was shot and killed in 2015 on a pier in San Francisco, which is a sanctuary city when it comes to undocumented immigrants like Zarate.…
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ICE Picks Up Teen Hours Before His Senior Prom, Days Before His High School Graduation
Hours before his senior prom was set to begin, Diego Ismael Puma Macancela hid in a bedroom closet at his cousin’s home as immigration officers who had come looking for him stood outside the apartment banging on the door and threatening to break it down if Puma Macancela did not come out. Worried that agents…
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Immigration Agent Tries to Question 4th-Grader, Gets Turned Away by School Officials
If you needed any further proof of how low the agents of this administration will sink to carry out its dictator’s mandates, a federal immigration agent showed up at an elementary school in Queens, N.Y., to question a fourth-grade student Thursday. A New York City spokesman told CBS New York that the incident happened at…
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American Civil Liberties Union Responds to Trump’s New Mass-Deportation Instructions
On Tuesday the Trump administration revealed its new guidelines for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants in the United States and at the border, allowing federal authorities to take a more aggressive stance on illegal immigration, prompting a swift response from the American Civil Liberties Union. Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants Rights Project,…