October 13, 2017 Immigration 2
Is racial justice just bad politics? New Jersey’s battery-dead gubernatorial race got a jump start this week when Kim Guadagno and Phil Murphy faced off over the idea of becoming a Sanctuary State. That possibility is reigniting fervor in both bases,…
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September 7, 2017 Immigration 0
This week, President Trump attempted to pull another thread out of the fabric of our communities when he announced he would end Presdient Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, in six months. Unless Congress steps in, ending…
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Just seven months into his presidency, Trump pardoned a man convicted of regularly violating the rights of Latinos, stopping people based on racial profiling, detaining them based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally, and turning them…
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Many Hispanics are only buying essential goods and are cutting back on spending because they are worried about harassment by immigration or law enforcement officials, according to a CNBC report, which sites large retailers, advocacy organizations, and research firms. And…
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New Jersey has the fifth-largest immigration court caseload in the nation, according to NJ Spotlight, with 31,000 people from every New Jersey county and more than 90 percent of municipalities have cases pending in immigration court, new data shows. In…
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President Trump wants to cut the legal immigration in half over a 10-year span, creating a “merit-based system” that caters to green card applicants who speak English and have technical skills. It would eliminate the diversity lottery visa, reduce the…
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A Metuchen resident, a 16-year New Jersey resident, husband, and father of a citizen 13-year-old, was deported to his native Indonesia yesterday. It the latest tragedy stemming from the Trump administration, which has made it a priority to remove otherwise law-abiding…
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“The people’s power will always be stronger than the people in power.” — Carimer Andujar Some good news from the immigrant rights front today as Carimer Andujar, the Rutgers chemical engineering student and immigrants rights activist, who faced possible detention, gave…
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Before Trump, “federal agents never slipped into court to make arrests,” but we’re increasingly seeing federal agents making arrests inside courthouses, according to a recent report from WNYC. This concerned NJ Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, who asked Homeland…
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