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Immigration Reform   America - all of it

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Feb-1

Jenifer (Zarknorph) said...
bml00 said:

...and this is designed to heal the rift ?

No, this is designed to attempt to return humanity to the US government.

Don't worry - Republicans have stacked the courts, remember?  They'll make sure people continue to suffer.

Witness to El Paso mass shooting deported after federal judge blocks Biden deportation pause

Witness to El Paso mass shooting deported after federal judge blocks Biden deportation pause (msn.com)

 
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Feb-3

U.S.

Biden moves to reverse Trump immigration policies, too slowly for some

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a review of asylum processing at the U.S.-Mexico border and the immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former President Donald Trump's hardline policies.

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Feb-3

Here's a 4 year old article from the first days of the Trump administration.

Report: LA religious leaders create network to hide immigrants
 
BY NIKITA VLADIMIROV - 02/23/17 07:04 PM EST
 
Report: LA religious leaders create network to hide immigrants
 
Religious leaders in Los Angeles are forming an underground network of homes as part of an effort to provide shelter for families facing deportation, CNN reported Thursday.
 
According to CNN, the Rapid Response Team network could shelter hundreds and potentially thousands of undocumented immigrants across Southern California.
 
"That's what we need to do as a community to keep families together," said Pastor Ada Valiente, after showing CNN a house that is ready to host three families.
 
Similar services for immigrant families are already being provided by numerous churches and religious buildings in the area.
 
According to CNN, this Rapid Response Team seeks to go beyond the existing measures.
 
Another participant who did not want to be identified told CNN he will do everything in his power to protect his guests if immigration authorities come knocking on his door.
 
"I definitely won't let them in. That's our legal right," he said. "If they have a warrant, then they can come in. I can imagine that could be scary, but I feel the consequences of being passive in this moment is a little scary."
 
Under President Obama, the authority of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials was limited at various religious locations.
 
Members of the new underground network have voiced skepticism that the policy will last under President Trump.
 
This week, the new administration presented a plan to increase domestic deportations, expanding those who may be targeted by ICE. 
 
 
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Feb-3

This article, and the article in the post directly above, are 4 years old, and come from the beginning of the Trump administration.

Note how Christians and Jews worked together for a common cause. This is religion at its finest.

Underground network readies homes to hide undocumented immigrants
 
By Kyung Lah, Alberto Moya and Mallory Simon, CNN
 
Updated 8:46 PM EST, Sun February 26, 2017

 (CNN) —  A hammer pounds away in the living room of a middle class home. A sanding machine smoothes the grain of the wood floor in the dining room.
 
But this home Pastor Ada Valiente is showing off in Los Angeles, with its refurbished floors, is no ordinary home.
 
“It would be three families we host here,” Valiente says.
 
By “host,” she means provide refuge to people who may be sought by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The families staying here would be undocumented immigrants, fearing an ICE raid and possible deportation.
 
The purchase of this home is part of a network formed by Los Angeles religious leaders across faiths in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. The intent is to shelter hundreds, possibly thousands of undocumented people in safe houses across Southern California.
 
The goal is to offer another sanctuary beyond religious buildings or schools, ones that require federal authorities to obtain warrants before entering the homes.
 
“That’s what we need to do as a community to keep families together,” Valiente says.
 
At another Los Angeles neighborhood miles away, a Jewish man shows off a sparsely decorated spare bedroom in his home. White sheets on the bed and the clean, adjacent full bathroom bear all the markers of an impending visit. The man, who asked not to be identified, pictures an undocumented woman and her children who may find refuge in his home someday.
 
The man says he’s never been in trouble before and has difficulty picturing that moment. But he’s well educated and understands the Fourth Amendment, which gives people the right to be secure in their homes, against unreasonable searches and seizures. He’s pictured the moment if ICE were to knock on his door.
 
“I definitely won’t let them in. That’s our legal right,” he says. “If they have a warrant, then they can come in. I can imagine that could be scary, but I feel the consequences of being passive in this moment is a little scary.”
 
The secret network
 
 
Rev. Zach Hoover wants to help immigrant families fearing deportation stay hidden and together.
 
The religious leaders have a name for their network: the Rapid Response Team. The idea is not necessarily a new one, according to Reverend Zach Hoover, executive director of the interfaith community organization LA Voice.
 
Hoover, 37, wasn’t an active member during the Sanctuary Movement of the 1980s when US congregations across faiths resisted federal law and provided shelter for Central Americans fleeing violence in their home countries. Many congregations offered direct sanctuary, housing the undocumented immigrants, while others offered food and legal assistance.
 
The Rapid Response Team mirrors that structure, but goes one step further by also incorporating private homes, which offer a higher level of constitutional protection than houses of worship and an ability to make it harder for federal agents to find undocumented immigrants.
 
Under federal law, locations like churches and synagogues are technically public spaces that authorities could enter to conduct law enforcement actions. In 2011, the Department of Homeland Security instituted a policy limiting ICE action at religious locations. The policy ordered ICE to not enter “sensitive locations” like schools and institutions of worship.
 
Religious leaders in Los Angeles that spoke to CNN are skeptical whether that policy will stand under a Trump presidency.
 
“There’s a difference between someone knocking on your door at the church who’s a federal agent and someone knocking on the door of your home,
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Feb-4

U.S.

U.S. Supreme Court scraps arguments in Trump-era immigration and wall cases

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday canceled upcoming scheduled arguments in appeals filed by Republican former President Donald Trump's administration defending his funding of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and his so-called "remain in Mexico" asylum policy.

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Feb-5

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Biden will sign order rebuilding refugee program that Trump nearly dismantled

A child stands in front of a UN High Commissioner for Refugees tent for Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Sudan's eastern Gedaref state, on November 19, 2020. | Ashraf Shazly/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will sign an executive order to rebuild the US's refugee resettlement program, raising the annual cap on admissions to 125,000 starting in October. In...

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Feb-6

U.S.

Biden set to accept more refugees after years of Trump restrictions

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday he plans to raise annual refugee admissions to 125,000 in the coming fiscal year, a more than eight-fold increase after former President Donald Trump slashed levels to historic lows.

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Feb-8

U.S.

Biden administration suspends Trump asylum deals with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras

The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, part of a bid to undo his Republican predecessor's hardline immigration policies.

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Feb-8

BullyMan said:

Making legal millions of ILLEGALS is not an healing method but this is for the US td decide not me not you. I personally cannot believe that such an act will heal anything 

The Daily Beast

Biden Sets Up Review of Trump's Deportations of Military Veterans and Their Families

There's no public record of exactly how many vets or dependents were removed by the Trump administration, but it's thought to run into the hundreds.

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Feb-19

U.S.

Democrats roll out Biden immigration bill without Republican backers

Democrats on Thursday formally introduced President Joe Biden's sweeping immigration bill in Congress, a measure that would provide a path to U.S. citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally, but which faces long odds to passage.

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