BREAKING: With
@MALDEF
, we just filed a lawsuit challenging Texas'
#SB4
as unconstitutional.
Our case is the first to represent individuals who would be personally impacted by SB4, a political ploy masquerading as law.
Say his name. Maurice Gordon Jr.
He was a 28-year-old immigrant from Jamaica, a chemistry student + an essential worker who was shot 6 times during a traffic stop on 5/28/2020.
Demand justice for immigrants.
#BlackLivesMatter
#ImmigrantsAreEssential
🎨 Portrait by Uli Knörzer
VICTORY 🎉 The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration’s termination of
#DACA
was ARBITRARY AND CAPRICIOUS. Hundreds of thousands of immigrant young people can continue to live and work, and contribute to their communities in the U.S.
#HomeIsHere
#HeretoStay
BREAKING: Victory for our plaintiffs! A federal court has issued a second order to
#ProtectDreamers
nationwide. Two federal courts have now determined that
@realDonaldTrump
's termination of DACA was unlawful.
BREAKING: It’s official — a federal court in New York has ruled to
#ProtectFamilies
from Trump’s
#PublicCharge
regulation.
📣 To immigrants and your families: Your families should continue to use the services for which you are eligible without fear. 1/
BREAKING: We've secured a nationwide preliminary injunction to BLOCK Trump's Public Charge Rule from taking effect.
This rule would have had devastating impacts on New Yorkers and our nation, and today’s decision is a critical step in our efforts to uphold the rule of law.
Happening now: Advocates & allies are forming a human chain around Muslim prayer to stand in solidarity against the Muslim & refugee bans. One year since the first
#MuslimBan
, we’re here to say
#NoMuslimBanEver
🔴We are LIVE in Washington, DC at the National Mall!
Come leave a message of support for immigrant essential workers & demand that Congress take action to protect the immigrant essential workforce.
#ImmigrantsAreEssential
— it’s time our government acknowledged it.
BREAKING: VICTORY in the courts for
#DACA
! Today the Eastern District of New York ruled in our case with
@MaketheRoadNY
and
@WiracYls
to undo the harm of the Trump administration’s latest attacks on DACA. Here’s what you need to know 👇
BREAKING: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit today upheld a lower court’s ruling to block
@realDonaldTrump
’s termination of DACA, allowing ~800,000 DACA recipients nationwide to submit renewal applications. 1/
#DefendDACA
✊
A federal appeals court says the Trump administration can't end DACA, the Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from being deported
DACA NEWS: 📣A federal court has denied Texas’ request to stop
#DACA
renewals and harm hundreds of thousands of our nation’s brave
#Dreamers
. Bottom line: this means that DACA renewals are still being accepted. 1/
Wrong,
@PressSec
. There is no law on the books that mandates the separation of parents and children who are simply seeking refuge. This is a Trump
@WhiteHouse
policy and it's cruel and inhumane.
#EndFamilySeparation
Here’s an example of a Judicial warrant, in the first image (LEFT), which is signed by a judge. The second image (RIGHT) is an administrative warrant signed by an ICE agent, which is NOT a legal basis for an ICE official to enter your home.
BREAKING: President Trump just announced a devastating new proposed regulation that would harm countless immigrant families & all of our nation's communities. The adjustments to "Public Charge" would rig our immigration system so green cards would only go to the highest bidder 1/
Breaking News: The Trump administration is aiming to sharply restrict new green cards for those who legally use public benefits. The move could affect millions.
BREAKING: the Trump admin just finalized its "public charge" rule—a race motivated wealth test on immigrant families seeking a healthy, stable future in the US. If this goes into effect, it would have a devastating impact on millions.
We WILL fight back. Stay tuned for updates.
As suspected, the public charge DHS rule is here:
This will give the administration broad leeway to reject immigrants they think are — or might in the future — using government benefits.
WATCH: DACA supporters chant "Home is here!" on the steps of the US Supreme Court on Tuesday after justices hear arguments on Trump admin.'s push to end the federal program.
JUST IN: Thanks to federal court orders stopping President Trump's unlawful termination of
#DACA
, over 187,000 of our nation's immigrant youth have renewed their DACA status.
This is a testament to the strength and resilience of Dreamers across the country. 1/
#DefendDACA
BREAKING: the Trump admin. has reversed its unjust decision to bar Marco Villada—one of our nation’s brave
#Dreamers
—from returning back home to California. After being forcibly separated for half a year, Marco has been reunited with his husband & family:
After historic floods, immigrant workers arrived in Michigan to rebuild.
Their employers created conditions that spread COVID and put them and the community at risk.
We can’t let it happen again.
#ImmigrantsAreEssential
to America’s recovery.
📸:
@Basaestudio
🎉 VICTORY! A Brooklyn court ruled in our case with
@MaketheRoadNY
and
@WIRACYls
on DACA that Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving, and his memo was not lawfully issued. We are still reading the opinion and will provide more details soon.
9th circuit rules unanimously that Trump's latest
#MuslimBan
violates the law (just like all the others). We welcome this legal victory, but we cannot celebrate until the Supreme Court lifts the stay that is separating families TODAY.
#NoMuslimBanEver
Let’s be clear: President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda isn’t about national security. It’s about advancing a white nationalist agenda and creating fear in communities across the nation. 1/
#SOTU
#SOTU2018
@MaketheRoadNY
@WiracYls
The Court today set aside Chad Wolf’s July 2020 memo. This means the government must:
1️⃣ Reopen the
#DACA
program to first-time applicants,
2️⃣ Return the period of protections to two years
3️⃣ Make Advanced Parole available to DACA recipients again without restrictions.
This proposal, written months ago by anti-immigrant zealot Stephen Miller (whom Steve
#Bannon
reportedly described as “my typist”), is more of an effort to foil an immigration deal than to make one.
The only crisis at the border is the one that
@realDonaldTrump
manufactured.
❌ Tearing children from their parents and locking them up in cages.
❌Teargassing families.
❌ Denying people the right to asylum.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has no business in public office. His anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant worldview runs counter to everything America should stand for and will only add fuel to
@realDonaldTrump
’s white supremacist agenda.
ICE approaches immigrants on the street, at work, in their car, at court. Remember:
#WeHaveRights
.
Be prepared for encounters with
#ICE
in this series from
@ACLU
&
@BklynDefender
. Watch in 7 languages and make an emergency plan →
At this point, Trump is throwing a bunch of nationalist immigration policies at a wall and seeing what will stick. We should see this for what it is, a cheap attempt to score political points before next week. Trump may be president, but he isn’t above the 14th Amendment.
While we wait for a possible
#SCOTUS
decision on
#DACA
, we are thrilled to see the decision in Bostock v. Clayton County ruling that federal employment discrimination laws protect LGBTQ+ employees. 🏳️🌈
#BREAKING
: WIN!
Supreme Court just ruled that firing someone for being LGBTQ is a VIOLATION of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act!
WE DID IT Y'ALL!
#DecisionDay
Read opinion here:
🚨 THREAD: President Trump has signed an executive order mandating that families be jailed by the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security or Defense. This order would have the effect of jailing, for months or even years, immigrant families seeking safety in the U.S. 1/
ICE approaches immigrants on the street, at work, in their car, at court. Remember:
#WeHaveRights
. Be prepared for encounters with
#ICE
.
Watch in 7 languages and make an emergency plan:
The display of suffragette white in our nation's capitol is a testament to the direction of our future. Women have shown us the way forward. They continue to lead the way tonight.
#SOTU
Dreamers are Americans. They know no other country. They have stood here and worked here and served here and have loved our country. These are our fellow Americans, and we are a nation that should leave no American behind.
@CoryBooker
#ProtectDREAMers
#DreamActNow
At his nomination hearing yesterday, Kavanaugh sent a clear signal to employers that he thinks immigrant workers should be prohibited from forming unions at their jobs, and if they do, employers should be allowed to retaliate against them with impunity. 1/
#WhatsAtStake
JUST IN: A federal court just…
❗️Rejected the Trump admin’s cruel policy of making it harder for people to seek asylum on gang brutality/domestic violence grounds
❗️ Ordered the admin to return all who were deported because of this policy
❗️ Defended the rights of asylum seekers
Completely false. Here are the facts:
❌ It's a Trump White House policy
❌ It's a Trump White House policy
❌ It's a Trump White House policy
❌ It's a Trump White House policy
❌ and it's cruel and inhumane!
#EndFamilySeparation
ICE approaches immigrants on the street, at work, in their car, at court. Remember:
#WeHaveRights
. Be prepared for encounters with
@ICEgov
.
Watch in 7 languages and make an emergency plan:
BREAKING: We just filed our lawsuit to stop Trump’s
#PublicCharge
regulation, which threatens millions of immigrant families. We will not stand for it. We’re fighting back against this racist policy and we’re going to win the fight to protect immigrant families.
#ProtectFamilies
The border wall is dangerous, wasteful, and morally repugnant. A shutdown would harm millions of families. The fact that Trump is willing to hold our government hostage to get his wall tells you everything you need to know about this moment.
#TrumpShutdown
JUST IN: "I am proud to shut down the government for border security ... I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I’m not going to blame you for it," President Trump tells Senate Minority Leader Schumer in the Oval Office.
BREAKING: The Trump admin just moved to drastically limit
#DACA
, saying they will reject ALL new applications, shorten the length of DACA renewals, essentially DOUBLING the cost of renewals, and will take steps to “review” (read: dismantle) the program. 1/
JUST IN: White House announces that the US will take steps to wind down legal protections for DACA participants while the admin. conducts a legal review after the Supreme Court rejected in June President Trump's plan to end the program.
DACA UPDATE 📣: the DC federal district court just rejected (again) President Trump’s cruel and unlawful termination of the
#DACA
program. Here’s what this means for DACA recipients. 1/ ↓
I was barred entry. Asked repeatedly to speak to a supervisor—he finally came out and said he can’t tell us anything. Police were called on us.
Children should never be ripped from their families & held in secretive detention centers. RT if you agree this is WRONG.
🚨BREAKING: The Senate's budget resolution text is out & it includes $107 billion to create a pathway to citizenship for millions of DACA recipients, TPS holders, farm workers & essential workers.
This is our moment to win CITIZENSHIP. NOW.
#WeAreHome
More falsehoods from
@POTUS
. Here are the facts:
❌ Donald Trump ended
#DACA
and threw the lives of ~800k immigrant youth into chaos.
❌ Trump admin ordered the separation of kids from their parents.
❌ Trump dehumanizes immigrants from all walks of life every chance he gets.
When Trump introduced the first
#MuslimBan
one year ago, he tore apart families and threw thousands of lives into chaos. Today, we’re bringing the
#resistance
to his doorstep to demand
#NoMuslimBanEver
If Trump's Border Patrol is uncomfortable with reporters calling cages what they are, then maybe Border Patrol shouldn't be putting children and families in cages. Show some humanity.
No to child incarceration. No to family separation.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
This just in from
@davidbegnaud
: Border Patrol has reached out to
@cbsthismorning
and said they are "very uncomfortable" with the use of the word cages. They say it's not inaccurate and added that they may be cages but people are not being treated like animals.
#ImmigrantsAreEssential
, today & everyday.
We are working with the incoming administration to prioritize workers' protections, COVID relief, healthcare, fair wages & citizenship for the 11 million immigrants who call this country home.
@realDonaldTrump
What remains clear is the need for Congress to enact a permanent solution to
#ProtectDreamers
and end the uncertainty governing the lives of immigrant youth, their families and communities. 6/6
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS THREAD: We all have certain basic rights, no matter who’s president. Protect yourself & your community. Here’s a card that you can hand to ICE and law enforcement officers. The card is also available in several other languages, here:
THREAD: If you are an ALLY and want to stand in solidarity with immigrants, there are plenty of things that you can do to ensure that all of our communities are safe — both if you see an ICE raid taking place, and in your everyday environment. Read below 👇
In a recent report,
@hrw
&
@amnestyusa
document evidence of war crimes or crimes against humanity in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone.
The U.S. SHOULD NOT be deporting Ethiopians to danger.
@SecMayorkas
must urgently provide
#TPS
for Ethiopia.