(JTA) — At 15, Elias Rosenfeld became a “Dreamer.” At the time, the Venezuela native was attending Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in Miami, where he had lived since he was 6 years old, when his Jewish family moved to South Florida from Caracas. His mother was a media executive and they traveled…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who announced the end of the DACA program on Tuesday, once praised laws that kept Jewish refugees from entering the United States as “good for America” – a contention that attests to the ex-Alabama senator’s ever-present nativist convictions. Sessions was referring in his remarks, first made two years ago on Steve…
What is the ‘Ivanka Trump guarantee’? It doesn’t amount to much according to Lindy West, who blasted the first daughter as ineffectual in a Wednesday column of the same name in The New York Times. “She is more a logo than a person, a scarecrow stuffed with branding, an heiress-turned-model-turned-multimillionaire’s-wife playacting as an authority on…
Back in 2015, a tweet from Ivanka Trump praising an undocumented immigrant seemed perfectly inocuous. “We love this story about an undocumented immigrant who worked her way up on Wall Street,” she tweeted, two years before becoming the first daughter and adviser to the president. But after President Trump pulled the plug on DACA, Dreamers,…
President Trump’s decision to end protections and benefits for children brought into the United States illegally faces a legal challenge from New York and other states. New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman will announce a multistate lawsuit to protect beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at a news conference on Wednesday,…
Jewish organizations and individuals vowed to fight President Trump’s decision to end a program that protects immigrants who came to the United States as children — as did the immigrants that they care and fight for. “I was crying earlier, it was very scary,” one participant in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, who…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish groups and lawmakers attacked as immoral President Donald Trump’s decision to end an Obama-era program granting protections to illegal immigrants who arrived in the United States as children. The Trump administration on Monday said it would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program launched by President Barack…
Breitbart News is taking names on who wants to extend Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants, publishing an item on Tuesday morning noting that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are supposedly for keeping the DACA program in place. The article was written as a straight news story, but represents a constant drip of information from Breitbart…
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