On a beautiful spring morning at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump appears to have woken up in a very foul mood.
So the president did as he’s wont to do on days like this: He announced a dramatic shift in policy affecting the nation’s most vulnerabl…
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Pelosi delivers longest House speech ever in an attempt to save DACA
House Minority Leader has something she’d like to say: more than eight hours worth of things, to be specific.
Pelosi took to the House floor beginning at 10:04 am on Wednesday to advocate on behalf of young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers. …
Susan Collins’ ridiculous talking stick is an insult to the summer camp community
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Susan Collins, who is currently a senator — not a summer camp counselor — had a new idea for reforming our broken government on Monday.
To help ease communication during the government shutdown, Collins introduced a talking stick to bipartisan negotiations. One of the Senators in the negotiations allegedly threw the stick at Susan Collins’ glass elephant, breaking it — but take a look at that stick.
Who can blame them?
This talking stick shouldn’t even call itself a stick. It’s a bandaged disgrace.
.@SenatorCollins officially shows the “talking stick” to the public, on @NewDay pic.twitter.com/pUB7ygBTJg
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) January 23, 2018 Read more…
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View More Susan Collins’ ridiculous talking stick is an insult to the summer camp communityChamillionaire offers to help a deported immigrant separated from his family
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Rapper Chamillionaire wants to help the family of Jorge Garcia, a 39-year-old man who was separated from his wife and two children by immigration officials.
The story of his deportation from Michigan to Mexico is a heartbreaking example of Donald Trump’s tightened immigration restrictions, which even affect people who came to the U.S. as children, like Garcia.
After years living in the U.S. for 30 years, a 39-year-old immigrant in metro Detroit was deported this morning to Mexico. Escorted by ICE agents, he said bye to wife and 2 kids before boarding. He was brought to US from Mexico when he was 10-yrs-old, too old to qualify for DACA: pic.twitter.com/KFPeweaMbG
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) January 15, 2018 Read more…
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View More Chamillionaire offers to help a deported immigrant separated from his familyMark Zuckerberg wants you to call your congressperson in support of DACA
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants you to call your congressperson to act on DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). Since 2012, 800,000 undocumented immigrants have received DACA status. “Every day that Congress doesn’t act more DACA recipients are losing their status,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post this morning. If President Donald Trump has his way, DACA… Read More
Jeff Bezos donates $33 million to fund college scholarships for Dreamers
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, are donating $33 million in the form of a scholarship grant to help 1,000 undocumented immigrant high school graduates with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status attend college. The Bezos gra…
View More Jeff Bezos donates $33 million to fund college scholarships for DreamersTech executives join more than 100 business leaders calling on Congress to move quickly on DACA
Many of tech’s most prominent executives have joined more than 100 American business leaders in signing an open letter asking Congress to take action on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program before it expires on March 5. Read More
Zuckerberg-backed FWD.us: Congress failed Dreamers
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Congress passed a stopgap measure on Thursday that will prevent a government shutdown, at least until January. But FWD.us, the organization founded by such tech titans as Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, isn’t happy about one thing the spending bill is missing: protection for Dreamers.
Democratic leaders wanted an extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which protects undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as young children — in the bill. That didn’t happen, but the legislation passed anyway, funding the government until Jan. 19. Read more…
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