deportations
Resisting the deportations: Trump’s modern-day Fugitive Slave Act
February 23, 2017In 1850, the federal government ordered states to deport “illegals.” Back then it was fugitive slaves; today it is undocumented immigrants.
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L.A. faith-based leaders arrested in protest against deportations
March 24, 2016"I chose to get arrested during Holy Week because too many of our immigrant and refugee brothers and sisters are suffering."
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Election results mean hundreds of thousands more could be deported
November 7, 2014The Midterm Elections have almost certainly put an end to any possibility of a legislated immigration reform until Jan. 2017.
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Jose Antonio Vargas, immigrant rights leader, arrested by border patrol
July 15, 2014United We Dream Minority Affairs Council said Vargas was in Texas this past weekend in solidarity with unaccompanied children who cross the Texas border fleeing for their lives.
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Immigrant families demand an immediate end to deportations
April 9, 2014Fed up with seeing loved ones deported and families and communities broken up, 11 undocumented immigrants and their supporters were arrested after blocking an intersection.
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