Category: Calls

FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Thursday, July 19, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

ENSURE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
The more than 2,000 children who were forcefully separated from their parents at the border are now going through the process of immigration hearings. Because seeking asylum is not a crime, the standard requirement for court-appointed attorneys is not in place for these children. The result is that children as young as 3 years old are left to rep…

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FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

DEMAND CONGRESS COUNTER TRUMP’S SIDING WITH RUSSIA
At a press conference following a closed door meeting with Russian authoritarian President Vladimir Putin on July 16 in Helsinki, Trump rejected the findings of his own U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was responsible for the attacks on the 2016 election and instead readily accepted Putin’s denial. His obsequious deference to Putin over American …

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FEDERAL DAILY ACTION: Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Submitted by Margaret Petty

PROTECT IMMIGRANT FAMILIES WITH TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS
Trump’s zero tolerance border policy, which has led to unconscionable family separations, is not the only policy threatening to tear immigrant families apart. The termination of temporary protected status (TPS) for 406,000 immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and Honduras is also a dire threat to immigrant families. TPS allows immigrants from coun…

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