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Opinion The San Antonio migrant deaths should remind Jews: We were once smuggled in, too
‘Plenty of people killed, nobody knows about it, but God and the water’
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Opinion I’m A Proud Veteran. I’m Even Prouder To Be The Grandson Of An Illegal Immigrant.
I have achieved accomplishments our society values — an Ivy League education, decorated combat service as an Army officer, and home ownership. I served two deployments to Iraq leading the most impressive young Americans, some as young as 18, during the most brutish years of the Iraqi insurgency. After leaving the Army, I attended Harvard…
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Opinion As Jews, It Is Our Duty To Stand With Undocumented Immigrants.
Immigrants and refugees in the United States are under attack and the Jewish community must stand up, speak out, and take action to protect the 21st century successors to our own immigrant ancestors. Memories of our own community trapped in Eastern Europe last century, with the United States borders closed, still haunt us, and must…
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Life The Jews Who Ignore Immigrants While Employing Them
The room sparkles, a montage of brilliantly colored wigs, gleaming cufflinks, the Sabbath china set. The men recite the prayers with such gusto! Bravo, what a Yeshivishe accent, every ‘oy’ pronounced loud and clear, your rebbe would be proud! We serve tuna tartare and foie gras and brisket, open a bottle of Glenmorangie. Someone shares…
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Breaking News 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 that 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…
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Breaking News Rahm Emanuel Talks Immigrants and Infrastructure in Meeting With Donald Trump
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….
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News 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….
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