Illegal immigrants
I’m A Proud Veteran. I’m Even Prouder To Be The Grandson Of An Illegal Immigrant.
Veteran Steven Katz is proud of his service to the US, but he is even prouder of his grandfather who was let into the US illegally.
As Jews, It Is Our Duty To Stand With Undocumented Immigrants.
Illegal immigrants in New York are not allowed to get driver’s licenses. As Jews, who were once immigrants ourselves, it’s our duty to help.
The Jews Who Ignore Immigrants While Employing Them
Around the Shabbat table, they talk about the dangers of open borders. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, a woman silently washes dishes…
Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Defiant as Trump Threatens To Cut Off Sanctuary Cities
Chicago’s city council voted Wednesday to reaffirm its status as a sanctuary city and protect immigrants from deportations almost at exactly the same time President Donald Trump signed an executive order that tightened immigration laws and declared that the U.S. government would cut off federal grants to sanctuary cities “except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes.”
Rahm Emanuel Talks Immigrants and Infrastructure in Meeting With Donald Trump
At Wednesday’s meeting, Emanuel presented Trump with a letter signed by himself and 13 other mayors, including Bill de Blasio of New York and Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles, asking the president-elect to continue President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows undocumented immigrants who arrived to the U.S. as children to remain and work here. Currently 742,000 people benefit from DACA, 69,571 of them in Illinois.
Rahm Meets Trump, Talks Immigrants and Infrastructure
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and Donald Trump are not natural political allies, and Emanuel has been vocal in his opposition to the president-elect on many issues. Nonetheless, the two sat down Wednesday for a 45-minute conversation at Trump Tower in New York, joined by Trump’s chief of staff Reince Priebus and senior advisor Stephen Bannon.
Israel Allowed To Detain Illegal Immigrants for a Year Before Trial, Says New Law
Israel’s Knesset passed legislation that will allow the state to detain illegal migrants without trial for one year.