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VIEWPOINT: Bonamici joins Democratic members to lead immigration package in response to Trump State of ...

The St Helens Chronicle 19 Feb 2019

(VA-08), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), and Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), introduced a critical legislative package to protect immigrant rights ... “President Trump has made the targeting of immigrants a central part of his administration’s policies while persistently lobbing bigoted, verbal attacks at immigrant communities,” said Rep....

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Report: McDowell can adopt measures to become healthier, more inclusive

McDowell News 19 Feb 2019

The report also asks for law enforcement to decrease license checks in areas “where the immigrant community lives, learns, works, prays and plays.” It calls for local officials to “publicly share that local law enforcement is not directly involved in federal immigration and ......

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Watsonville mayor joins protest against Trump’s border emergency

Santa Cruz Sentinel 19 Feb 2019

Among the protest’s attendees was a majority of the Watsonville City Council — including Mayor Francisco Estrada, who pledged the city would fight back against the wall and stand in solidarity with its large community of immigrants, both documented and undocumented....

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Watch Donald Trump Struggle To Pronounce The Word ‘Venezuela’ Three Times In His Venezuela Speech Monday

Inquisitr 19 Feb 2019

... Maduro as a “Cuban puppet” before an enthusiastic crowd in Miami, home to the United States largest community of Venezuelan-Americans and Venezuelan immigrants, according to The Guardian ....

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Protestors gather on President’s Day to rally against Trump’s national emergency declaration

Daily Emerald 19 Feb 2019

This gathering, falling on President’s Day, was organized last minute as a “crisis response rally” in order to mobilize “against Trump’s fake crisis and racist deportation force and to stand with immigrant, Muslim, and Black and brown communities to stop Trump’s dangerous and illegal power grab,” according to a press release....

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Horseback Trump supporters reach Williamsport en route to D.C.

Herald Mail 19 Feb 2019

They reached Williamsport shortly after noon on Monday and hope to get to Washington, D.C., on Friday ... 68 ... Couy Griffin, from Tularosa, New Mexico, said his community has witnessed the effects of illegal immigrants crossing the Mexico border and bringing "a lot of diseases and bacteria" that his town is not used to dealing with ... ....

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New Jersey, Delaware Join 14 Other States In Filing Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s National Emergency Declaration

CBS Sports 19 Feb 2019

Follow CBSPHILLY Facebook . Twitter ... Grewal ... As the chief law enforcement officer for New Jersey, I have a duty to stand up for New Jersey’s residents – including our immigrant community – and so I’m joining states across the country in challenging this emergency declaration in court.” ... Comments ....

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Locals react to national emergency declaration

The Daily Gazette 19 Feb 2019

Rep ... SHARE ... The two local events and others across the country were organized by the progressive group MoveOn.org, which said it was "mobilizing nonviolent, rapid-response events to stand up against Trump's [declaration] to defend our democracy and immigrant, Muslim, black and brown communities from Trump's dangerous national emergency power grab." ... ....

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Whitmer nixes private immigrant detention center proposed in Ionia

Grand Haven Tribune 18 Feb 2019

Whitmer nixed the sale of the former Deerfield Correctional Center to Immigration ... "It's time for President Trump and Congress to work together on a bipartisan immigration reform plan that keeps communities safe, protects American jobs, and keeps families together.” ... Ionia has been a correctional community since the mid-1800s....

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Editor Zekun Mao tells emotional and timely story of immigrants in award-winning new film

Merinews 18 Feb 2019

Jie Jie follows three Taiwanese immigrants ? a young Taiwanese girl, her younger sister and mom ? as they try to adjust to their new life in the United States ... "Moreover, the story is about Chinese immigrants. Immigration is a huge topic nowadays, so is the Asian community ... I am happy that I highlighted the story from my own community....

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Help wanted: Rural America needs immigrants

Royal Oak Daily Tribune 18 Feb 2019

The workforce is overwhelmingly immigrant, well over half Latino. Tyson insists they are all legal, yet we figure about a third of the immigrant community in general here might be without papers - who knows? If the meatpackers can't find workers here, they will pick up shop and move somewhere else, like so many Iowa manufacturers before them....

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Groups: ICE detainees in Boston jail go on hunger strike

Boston Herald 18 Feb 2019

Dozens of people detained by federal immigration officials are on a hunger strike at a Boston jail. Rhode Island-based community ... Immigration and Customs Enforcement....

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Guest columnist: Why we must have a border wall

The World 18 Feb 2019

-- Donald Trump, Immigration Policy Paper, Aug ... The truth is our immigration system is worse than anybody ever realized ... The cost of building a permanent border wall pales mightily in comparison to what American taxpayers spend every single year on dealing with the fallout of illegal immigration on their communities, schools and unemployment offices....