Immigration

October 3, 2017

Earlier this year, a woman named Clara arrived at the United States border seeking protection from gender-based harm she faced in West Africa. She had endured an arduous journey trying to reach the U.S. border, where officials registered her claim for asylum. Rather than release her to pursue her...

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Katharina Obser

Immigration

September 25, 2017

Last night, President Donald Trump signed a new executive order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries. Starting next month, most citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea will be banned from entering the United States...

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Childcare & Early Education Immigration

September 15, 2017

Desde el 15 de Septiembre hasta el 15 de Octubre conmemoramos el Mes de la Herencia Hispana. Esta observación que empezó en 1968 como la Semana de la Herencia Hispana fue luego extendida por un período de 30 días por el Presidente Ronald Reagan. En este mes se celebra las historias, culturas y...

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Linda Stone

Immigration Maternal Justice

September 14, 2017

We built up the pressure and it paid off! Thanks to your signatures and phone calls, Maria Solis, a 28-year-old pregnant mother was released from immigration detention! Maria has spent 5 weeks at Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego, California, where she feared miscarrying due to a lack of...

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Carolina Rubio-MacWright

Families & The Federal Budget Immigration Maternal Justice

September 12, 2017

From visiting the wonderful Dutch Resistance Museum many years ago, I knew about the "Judenrat," councils of Jewish leaders that Nazis used to facilitate the implementation of their own annihilation. Although I'm Jewish and believe it's important to remember the Holocaust, I never really spent that...

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Ruby Sinreich

Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Maternal Justice

September 11, 2017

Today we remember all of those who were lost and who were impacted by 9/11, including the over 3000 children who lost parents that day alone. Thank you for all you do to for our country, including via taking action with MomsRising. Below please find our top actions for the week, including on tax...

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Karen Showalter

Immigration

September 7, 2017

With the future of nearly 800,000 young people, our economy and our nation’s values on the line, MomsRising members across the country are mobilizing quickly to convince Congress to pass the DREAM Act , which would provide a path to legal status for young immigrants who were brought to the United...

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Immigration

September 6, 2017

By Tom K. Wong, Greisa Martinez Rosas, Adam Luna, Henry Manning, Adrian Reyna, Patrick O’Shea, Tom Jawetz , and Philip E. Wolgin Note: The survey results can be found here . For more information on the survey, please contact Tom K. Wong . Since it was first announced on June 15, 2012, the Deferred...

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Tom Wong

Immigration

September 5, 2017

President Trump’s heartless and damaging decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will have dire consequences for our communities and our economy. Our diversity is what makes our nation strong, innovative and prosperous; and not the opposite. With this decision, the...

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Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Immigration Politics & Policy

September 3, 2017

Dear friends: It's another big week. Hurricane Harvey has brought widespread devastation to millions of people and businesses. And rumors are that President Trump is planning to repeal DACA - the program that protects over 800,000 DREAMers - any day. At times like these we need to stand together...

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Karen Showalter