Category: DACA
In ‘complete victory’ for Los Angeles, judge rules DOJ can’t tie funding to cooperation with ICE
Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is hell-bent on rigging the immigration courts against immigrants and due process, but in the courtrooms out of his clutches, he continues to lose:
A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled this week that the U.S. Department of Justice cannot withhold public safety, policing grants in so-called “sanctuary cities” where local law enforcement officials can choose not to turn over suspected undocumented immigrants in custody over to federal immigration authorities.
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Trump Vows “No More DACA Deal”
Dreamers, part of the fabric of American life at every level, continue to be jacked around as if they don’t matter. It’s time we all said, “YES, THEY DO.” Dreamers are us and we are dreamers. It’s time.
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Sign and send the petition to Congress: Congress has the power to save the census.
This is another chapter in the racially based playbook for the Republican game of permanent majority, minority oppression, and ethnic cleansing versus fair voting, one vote-one voice, and participation in government of the people, by the people and for the people. It is an affront to the principles of representative Democracy and a moral disgrace, no matter what rationale you hide it behind.
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IMMIGRATION TOOLKIT
Sanctuary really is an idea central to the formation of the United States, but an inviolate idea common to all people. Hospitals, mosques, temples, churches, synagogues, cemeteries, homeless shelters, schools – all are supposed to be safe places of refuge, and to violate the principles of a nation of immigrants or the sanctity of a sanctuary, is a violation of our own humanity.
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Campaign CALL TO ACTION- Add your name: Immigrant youth can’t wait. Pass the Dream Act NOW.
On December 22, sixty-six senators, including 17 Democrats, voted to pass the year-end spending bill without the inclusion of legislative protection for undocumented youth. By voting for a spending bill without the Dream Act, our political leaders BROKE YET ANOTHER PROMISE and voted for the deportation of immigrant youth.
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Trump Visits Border Wall Prototypes in California
President Donald Trump is in San Diego, visiting the U.S.-Mexico border to examine prototypes of his long-promised “big beautiful wall.” It is Trump’s first visit to the Golden State as the nation’s leader.
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ICE spokesman resigns, citing fabrications by agency chief and Sessions about California immigrant arrests
Sessions, Homan and President Trump sharply criticized Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) for issuing a public warning in late February about an imminent ICE raid throughout the region. At the time, Schaaf said she wanted to protect “law-abiding” immigrants from “the constant threat of arrest and deportation.”
Schwab also criticized the mayor’s warning as “misguided,” but he told Fox affiliate KTVUafter resigning that ICE ended up capturing 232 suspected undocumented immigrants — even more than officials had originally expected. About half of the people picked up had felonies or misdemeanors on their records, officials say.
In the raid’s aftermath, officials in Washington had repeatedly suggested that hundreds of criminals had escaped because of the mayor’s actions.
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SCOTUS: DACA Recipients Can Stay for Now
KNOCKING AWAY A cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s immigration plan, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected the president’s request to go forward with the deportation of children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.
After at least two days of deliberation, the high court refused to overturn a lower-court ruling which stops Trump from repealing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – an Obama-era federal program allowing those children and young adults to legally stay in the country under certain conditions.
By denying the request for an emergency ruling, the justices likely have kept Trump from meeting next week’s deadline to begin deporting DACA recipients, whose fates now hinge on the twin lawsuits civil rights advocates filed after the president announced he would undo DACA. The high court also gave the young people a big reprieve of sorts: It could take between several months and as long as a year for the court cases to be resolved.
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Poll: Most Americans support DACA
The CBS News poll, released Sunday, shows 70 percent of Americans favor allowing those who benefit from the program, often known as “Dreamers,” to stay in the country. Congress has in recent days met to work on a long-term fix for the program, unsuccessfully.
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Mark Meadows’ Immigration Update
Transylvania Indivisible makes an effort to maintain a non-partisan stance, but I cannot allow this position to pass without comment. Mr. Meadows’ contention that he is fulfilling a promise made and based on the the wishes of the American people is made lie by the actual feelings of the American people, as reported by The Hill on January 14 this year: “The CBS News poll, released Sunday, shows 70 percent of Americans favor allowing those who benefit from the program, often known as “Dreamers,” to stay in the country.”
Mr. Meadows, like most politicians, is addicted to telling us, the people, how we feel. My wife taught me doing so is a losing proposition with no relationship to reality and no possible good outcome. The same can be said of Mr. Meadows’ posturing. He expresses his own feelings about brown people and their families from our southern border, and passes them off as a reflection of the American public. I call BS.
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Join us for a community drop-off compost raising!
http://berightthere.info/event/join-us-for-a-community-drop-off-compost-raising/Coffee Carts1061 Rosman Hwy, Brevard, NC 28712, USA
You have heard of a barn raising.
Join us for a community drop-off
compost raising!When: April 19th at 6 pm
Where: Coffee Carts
1061 Rosman Hwy, Brevard, NCHosted by: Moving to Conservers
All are welcome! Please join us!
We will be constructing a community
compost drop-off site at Coffee Carts
and celebrate with a community potluck!
Bring a dish to share and your own
non-disposable place setting. This is
a zero-waste event.For more information email jbwkjc@gmail.com
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24th Annual Transylvania Garden Groups Spring Plant Sale April 28th
http://berightthere.info/event/24th-annual-transylvania-garden-groups-spring-plant-sale-april-28th/The annual spring plant sale by the Transylvania Master Gardeners, The Transylvania Garden Club, The French Broad Garden Club and the Heritage Museum will be held Saturday, April 28, from 8 a.m. until noon at the Brevard Ingles parking lot on Asheville Highway. This will be the second year in this location and it allows very easy access and plenty of parking for customers.
The annual plant sale raises funds to support gardening and landscape projects throughout Transylvania Count including the Master Gardeners projects including those at Silvermont and the Pisgah Ranger Station and scholarships provided by the garden clubs.
Come early for the best selection from a large variety of high quality, locally raised perennials, annuals, vegetables, trees and shrubs. Local gardeners also will be on hand to offer advice.
The plant sale takes place rain or shine. Admission is free.
For more information, contact the Transylvania County Extension office, (828) 884-3109 or mmickew@ncsu.edu.
US House Activity Excerpt
- H.R.5447Music Modernization Act (04/25/2018 legislative day)
- H.R.3144To provide for operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System pursuant to a certain operation plan for a specified period of time, and for other purposes. (04/25/2018 legislative day)
- H.R.4009Smithsonian National Zoological Park Central Parking Facility Authorization Act (04/25/2018 legislative day)
- H.Res.839Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4) to reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3144) to provide for operations of the Federal Columbia River Power System pursuant to a certain operation plan for a specified period of time, and for other purposes; […]
- H.R.256Protect Our Military Families' 2nd Amendment Rights Act (04/25/2018 legislative day)
US Senate Activity Excerpt
- PN1761Mike Pompeo, of Kansas, to be Secretary of State, vice Rex W. Tillerson. (04/25/2018 legislative day)
- S.Res.429A resolution commemorating the 59th anniversary of Tibet's 1959 uprising as "Tibetan Rights Day", and expressing support for the human rights and religious freedom of the Tibetan people and the Tibetan Buddhist faith community. (04/25/2018 legislative day)
- S.Res.401A resolution designating May 5, 2018 as the "National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls". (04/25/2018 legislative day)
NAACP’s Transylvania Together Podcast
- The Opposite of Addiction, with Jim Hardy
- Meals on Wheels of Brevard, NC, with Board Member Sasha Jones
- The Community Side of Recidivism - Meet Peter McKinney
- Meet Mark Burrows, Director of Transylvania County Planning and Community Development
- Meet Nicola Karesh, a Writer, Poet, Community Activist and a Playful Spirit
- Meet Kyle Tinsley, Graduate of Brevard High School and former leader of the Acceptance Club
- Meet Bobby Jones of Cedar Mountain, NC. His grandfather was Solomon Jones of Solomon Jones Road, the road to Pretty Place.
- Meet the founder of Transylvania Indivisible. David Williams.
- How the Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped Cedar Mountain, NC get a new cafe
- Meet Dal Davis, a student at Brevard College.