Tag: immigrations

U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway.

The following article by Nick Miroff, Seung Min Kim and Joshua Partlow was posted on the Washington Post website May 8, 2018:

DHS announced May 4 that it will end protected immigration status for 50,000 Hondurans living in the U.S. since 1999. This is what you need to know about TPS. (Melissa Macaya, Claritza Jimenez/The Washington Post)

In the past six months, the Trump administration has moved to expel 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living and working legally in the United States, disregarding senior U.S. diplomats who warned that mass deportations could destabilize the region and trigger a new surge of illegal immigration.

The warnings were transmitted to top State Department officials last year in embassy cables now at the center of an investigation by Senate Democrats, whose findings were recently referred to the Government Accountability Office. The Washington Post obtained a copy of their report. Continue reading “U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway.”

Justice Department report blames immigrants for terrorism, but doesn’t have the data to prove it

The following article by Esther Yu Hsi Lee was posted on the ThinkProgress website January 16, 2018:

It’s the report about nothing.

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 15: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions holds a news conference at the Department of Justice on December 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sessions called the question-and-answer session with reporters to highlight his department’s fight to reduce violent crime. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security released a scary report claiming that three out of four individuals convicted of international terrorism or terrorism-related offenses were “immigrants.”

“This report reveals an indisputable sobering reality—our immigration system has undermined our national security and public safety,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a press statement.  “And the information in this report is only the tip of the iceberg: we currently have terrorism-related investigations against thousands of people in the United States, including hundreds of people who came here as refugees. Continue reading “Justice Department report blames immigrants for terrorism, but doesn’t have the data to prove it”