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06/29/18

While the recent Executive Order on family separation proved (again!) that our voices are powerful when we speak up for justice, it does NOT stop the Trump administration from continuing human rights abuses, like imprisoning entire families simply for asking for asylum, which is their legal right...

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Khadija Gurnah

Immigration

06/29/18

*If you won’t be in Orlando, click here to get information on the Families Belong Together actions taking place across the country on Saturday, June 30 th . You can also download signs to print to take with you. Imprisoning children with their parents is still imprisoning children. Join us in...

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Sili Recio

Families & The Federal Budget Immigration

06/29/18

It's been a week, friends. As we head into the weekend, our urgent message to you is that we are powerful, and our voices matter. This week we're speaking out about immigration, and celebrating some inspiring wins. We're also sharing helpful ways to support immigrants in your community, and a...

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Karen Showalter

Immigration

06/28/18

I steeled myself before playing the audio of the distraught immigrant children separated from their parents and shipped off to detention centers. I avoid movies with cruelty and violence. It felt important to hear the children’s voices. A few seconds was all that I could bear. I pressed the space...

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Irma D. Herrera

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Immigration MomsRising MomsRising Near You

06/28/18

I'll get to it: This week, community leaders, immigrant rights organizations, and families, neighbors, and moms just like you are rallying across the country to call on the Trump Administration to end its inhumane practice of family separation and family imprisonment. But we need your help. Click...

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Maggie Humphreys

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Immigration

06/28/18

Families belong together. Taking kids away from their parents is traumatizing and immoral. This week our #5Actions list focuses on impactful actions you can take around family separation and detention. The timing could not be more urgent. Thank you to everyone who spoke up on behalf of asylum-...

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Karen Showalter

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MomsVote

06/28/18

Never, ever give up! Read the depressing headlines today? Well, before you do, remember that you have power, that we together can control the future makeup of Congress and of the U.S. Supreme Court (through who we elect to the U.S. Senate), and that we can win by making sure our friends and...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education

06/27/18

I had my 20-week ultrasound last week for our first baby and my partner have never been more over the moon...and terrified all at the same time. Nothing could make the fact that we are going to be parents more real than seeing our sweet baby girl sucking her thumb on the screen (I mean could she be...

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Jeannina Perez

Immigration

06/27/18

The defeat of Speaker Paul Ryan's Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018 in the House of Representatives is a welcome bit of good news at this time when the Trump administration and Congress are taking appalling actions that harm immigrants and asylum-seeking families. This vote is a...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Immigration

06/27/18

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling this morning in Trump v. Hawaii is deeply disturbing. It will have an immediate and chilling impact on Americans who will not be able to reunite with loved ones, and it will mean patients go without life-saving health care and young people go without education. We are...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner