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Epoch Times
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Epoch Times
LAPD Declares Several Anti-ICE Protests ‘Unlawful Assemblies' on Third Day of Protests
LOS ANGELES—Several hundred protesters waving Mexican flags demonstrated against Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement (ICE) raids at a federal building in downtown Los Angeles on June 8 for the third day in a row. Against a backdrop of anti-ICE graffiti lining the walls of the Edward R. Roybal federal building, which houses the Department of Homeland Security and various other federal agencies on Alameda Street, dozens of federal officers, including the California National Guard, formed a defensive perimeter around the facility where protesters gathered within yards of the entrance.
Axios
01-05-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Exclusive: Jayapal seeks answers on student visa cancellations
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is seeking answers from the Trump administration about its efforts to cancel student visas and revoke legal statuses in the middle of the academic year. Why it matters: In a letter to the Trump administration, Jayapal asks for information about the number of student visas canceled and the criteria being used to terminate foreign students' legal statuses. The administration said it would reverse some cancellations in a federal database in court last Friday while it develops a new system. But other students are still in immigration detention and visa revocations can still occur in the future. The sudden status changes — weeks before graduation — sparked about 100 lawsuits across the country as students tried to readjust their legal status. Driving the news:"This appears to be an attack on student visa holders writ-large, and not just on those who hold policy positions with which the administration disagrees," wrote Jayapal, who is ranking member on the Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. The letter, signed by more than 130 other Democrats in Congress, is directed to the Department of State, which has the power to revoke visas, and the Department of Homeland Security, which can detain and deport students when they no longer have valid visas. State of play: Hundreds of students had their visas canceled and thousands had their legal status revoked in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database, which schools use to verify the immigration status of their students, allowing them to attend class or conduct research. Students have been flagged for revocation through a combination of participating in campus demonstrations and having a record in the National Crime Information Center database, which includes charges that were dropped or not convicted. In court, the government said that it is implementing a new system and won't make new changes to students' statuses in the SEVIS database until then. The big picture: The sudden precarity of legal status, as the Trump administration increases the tempo of immigration-related arrests, has put university students in a difficult position.
Yahoo
19-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Mami, I'm Scared': A 7-Year-Old Grapples With Trump's Immigration Crackdown
'Mami, I'm scared.' It was my 7-year-old, leaning forward from the back seat of the car, scanning the broad sidewalk in front of his elementary school. It should have been an ordinary morning: a hint of rain, high-pitched laughter and the jerky stop and go of cars dropping kids off for another day of learning. 'What are you scared of?' I asked, twisting in the driver's seat so I could make eye contact. 'What if I get deported?' my American-born child asked. I wasn't entirely surprised by the question. Earlier in the week, after hearing how ICE arrests and deportation are impacting people where we live in the Bay Area, his 13-year-old brother asked if I was at risk of being arrested by ICE. They both know I was born in Cuba, and though neither could tell you about the Cuban Adjustment Act or any of the myriad laws that have smoothed my privileged immigration story, they'd both heard enough about the current deportations to think my American life — our American lives — could be imperiled. I explained to them that I'm a U.S. citizen, not likely to be kicked out of the country. But President Donald Trump's escalation from targeting deportable immigrants to immigrants with visas and green cards doesn't exactly encourage trust. I can't tell my children what I no longer believe: that citizenship is an unbreakable shield. Not when the president openly acknowledges that his administration is looking for legal ways to 'deport' its own citizens. Not when a 10-year-old U.S. citizen had her cancer treatment interrupted last month when her undocumented parents were ordered back to Mexico, forcing them to choose between relocating their entire family or separating from their daughter so she could continue her treatment in the U.S. Not when law enforcement officers mislead people like Federico Arellano, a U.S. citizen whose wife was in the process of legalizing her status. She was still recovering from birthing twins when she was called to the U.S. Immigration and Enforcement offices in Houston to discuss her case, only to be immediately deported to Mexico — with all four of their children, including the three who are U.S. citizens. Not when recent history tells us over and over that the state doesn't always play by the rules, even when it admits an error, as in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego García, the Maryland man trapped in a Salvadoran mega-prison whom the Trump Administration is refusing to return, notwithstanding the Supreme Court. I reached between the seats to give my son what I hoped was a comforting touch. But I knew even as I tried to articulate a response that this would again test my commitment to speaking truthfully with my children. 'I don't think that's going to happen,' I said. 'But I look just like the people who are getting deported,' he said, his voice as thin as smoke. And this is true: My youngest's mixed ethnicity seems to reflect back a variety of possibilities, all of them brown. At a Day of the Dead celebration, everyone thinks he's Mexican. On vacation in Hawai'i, he's mistaken for Polynesian. I've been asked more than once if he's Palestinian. I took a deep breath. I wanted to respond to him by saying, You're safe, I swear. But my kid's no fool. He doesn't know the legalese. He couldn't tell you what 'family separation' is or explain the finer points of citizenship versus immigration status. But he has felt the power of the state since his first moment on earth, when a judge removed him from his birth mother. The effects of that — of being handed over, reclassified, claimed and reclaimed in adoption — live in his bones, whether or not he has the words for it. So when he asks me, 'What if I get deported?' what he's really asking is, 'Will I be taken away again?' And when I say what I hope will provide comfort, he hears the tremble I'm trying to hide. He pressed further that day, his brow furrowed like when he's trying to solve a riddle. 'But what if it does happen?' he asked. 'What if they take me anyway?' I said the only true thing I could say: 'Then we'll fight. Your other mom [my ex-wife] and I, we will fight like hell to get you back. That's a promise.' I saw the words land in his chest. Not full relief, not a fix, but a tether. A rope to hold onto in case the ground gives way. What I didn't say — but what I felt deep inside like a stone — was how much I want to protect my children, not just from deportation, not just from the unthinkable machinery they fear could pull us apart, but from the burden of even having to think about it. From this fear becoming part of their neural architecture. I want to shield them from that constant, buzzing awareness of vulnerability, from that impulse to scan the sky for threats when they should be looking forward, running free. A friend reminded me that we lie to our children all the time to protect them. That I can just say, 'It's never going to happen. Don't worry.' But my boy lives in this world: He sees the ICE vans, and he goes to school in California, where the state Department of Education tells us 3 percent of schoolchildren are immigrants and 44 percent are part of immigrant families, meaning that the specter of deportation is never far. And these days, with places of worship, hospitals and schools no longer sacrosanct thanks to Trump's first-day-in-office executive action, kids are being threatened with arrests. In places like Sacketts Harbor, New York, three children living on a dairy farm were taken away by immigration officers (though they were later forced to return them). Even if nothing ever happens — if no one comes knocking, if no one shows up with paperwork or handcuffs or questions — this fear has already marked him. A few days ago, I had a headache and laid down for a few minutes when we heard the doorbell. My kid froze. I wasn't expecting anyone, so I didn't answer. He stayed in the bedroom with me the whole time, his shoulders knotted, waiting for the bell to stop ringing, asking his big brother if he could check to see if the shadow had finally vanished from the other side of the frosted glass. Then he crawled into bed with me. One of my son's best buds — part of a large family that immigrated from the Middle East — is undocumented. And surely they talk, the 7-year-olds, about what might happen to them, to their families, even as they laugh and run around like maniacs at a park or argue about the merits of adding chamoy to their mangonadas at the local ice cream shop. At therapy, my son talked about deportation, about how he feels like there's nothing he can do. His therapist gave him a little laminated card to carry with him that gives instructions if confronted by ICE: 'Do not answer any questions …. Do not sign anything .' It tells my 7-year-old to say: 'I choose to exercise my constitutional rights.' 'You can keep that,' the therapist said. 'Can I have some more, for my friends?' he asked. 'How many would you like?' He thought for a moment. 'Ten,' he said.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Illinois Democrat minimizes violent acts committed by illegal immigrants as just 'a few crimes'
Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, D- Ill., appeared to dismiss illegal immigrants attacking and murdering Americans as simply "immigrants committing a few crimes" Wednesday. Garcia made his remarks at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement hearing where he feigned surprise that Republicans were "scapegoat[ing] immigrants once again." "Republicans have lifted up some tragedies that involve immigrants committing a few crimes," Garcia said, claiming Republicans were being "dishonest and cruel." "This is the exception, not the rule," he added. "I live in an immigrant neighborhood in Chicago. I know what it's like." Frustrated Chicago Residents Fed Up With Spending On Illegal Immigrants, Call For Republican Leadership Just before García spoke, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., called out sanctuary city policies for releasing known violent criminals onto the streets with no clear oversight. Read On The Fox News App "There have been murders, there have been rapes, there have been disfigurements," Van Drew said. He added, "We know what happened to Laken Riley. We know what's happened to so many people. We're trying to clean up the chaos that was left behind." Also, shortly before García made his comments, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, gave a series of examples of sanctuary cities ignoring ICE detainers on rapists and killers, many of whom went on to assault and kill again. Chicago Democrat Urges Officials To Remove Sanctuary City Status As Residents Suffer: 'We Are Not Happy' García also argued that sanctuary city polices, such as the ones implemented in Chicago, have produced lower crime and poverty rates. He concluded that Republicans are "not interested in public safety or crime victims" because of how they've embraced President Donald Trump's deportation policies. Chicago Flips Red Vice President Danielle Carter-Walters responded to García during her testimony. "It's funny that Mr. García is from Chicago, and he cannot tell you what's happening in our community. If he came into our community, he would see all the gang graffiti, the Tren de Aragua signs, the MS-13. He would see across the street in a park where they're putting the shelters, all the needles in the park," Carter-Walters said. She also attacked sanctuary city policies and claimed, based on her husband's experience as a former police officer, that crimes by illegal immigrants are often not reported. Fox News Digital reached out to Garcia's press secretary for further article source: Illinois Democrat minimizes violent acts committed by illegal immigrants as just 'a few crimes'
Fox News
10-04-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Illinois Democrat minimizes violent acts committed by illegal immigrants as just 'a few crimes'
Rep. Jesús "Chuy" García, D- Ill., appeared to dismiss illegal immigrants attacking and murdering Americans as simply "immigrants committing a few crimes" Wednesday. Garcia made his remarks at a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement where he feigned surprise that Republicans were "scapegoat[ing] immigrants once again." "Republicans have lifted up some tragedies that involve immigrants committing a few crimes," Garcia said, claiming Republicans were being "dishonest and cruel." "This is the exception, not the rule," he added. "I live in an immigrant neighborhood in Chicago. I know what it's like." Just before García spoke, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., called out sanctuary city policies for releasing known violent criminals onto the streets with no clear oversight. "There have been murders, there have been rapes, there have been disfigurements," Van Drew said. He added, "We know what happened to Laken Riley. We know what's happened to so many people. We're trying to clean up the chaos that was left behind." Also, shortly before García made his comments, Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, gave a series of examples of sanctuary cities ignoring ICE detainers on rapists and killers, many of whom went on to assault and kill again. García also argued that sanctuary city polices, such as the ones implemented in Chicago, have produced lower crime and poverty rates. He concluded that Republicans are "not interested in public safety or crime victims" because of how they've embraced President Donald Trump's deportation policies. Chicago Flips Red Vice President Danielle Carter-Walters responded to García during her testimony. "It's funny that Mr. García is from Chicago, and he cannot tell you what's happening in our community. If he came into our community, he would see all the gang graffiti, the Tren de Aragua signs, the MS-13. He would see across the street in a park where they're putting the shelters, all the needles in the park," Carter-Walters said. She also attacked sanctuary city policies and claimed, based on her husband's experience as a former police officer, that crimes by illegal immigrants are often not reported. Fox News Digital reached out to Garcia's press secretary for further comment.
