Frank Sharry
Father. Husband. Immigrant rights advocate. Founder and Executive Director of @AmericasVoice. #immigration #DreamAct
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Trump is wrong. America isn’t "FULL!"
America is growing more slowly than at any time since the Great Depression.
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.@ezraklein in a must read: "For both economic and political reasons, we should worry about the consequences of depopulation. And the most powerful tool we have to address them is immigration." vox.com/2019/4/9/18300… via @voxdotcom
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Dreamer admitted to Harvard, immigration status is roadblock | Miami Herald
Miami Dreamer and DACA recipient has been admitted to Harvard University to study public health policy. But her immigration status poses financial problems.
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Moving column by @FabiolaSantiago about a Harvard-bound Dreamer. Remember that a)Trump ended DACA; b) he turned down a Dream Act for border wall deal; and c) if his decision is held up by the Supreme Court, Monica Lazaro will be subject to deportation.
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Around the World, More Say Immigrants Are a Strength Than a Burden
Majorities in top migrant destination countries say immigrants strengthen their countries. Yet publics are divided on immigrants' willingness to adopt their host country's customs.
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Pew: "Majorities of publics in top migrant destination countries say immigrants strengthen their countries, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center survey of 18 countries that host half of the world’s migrants."
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Forget About Trump’s New Immigration Position. He Will.
The one thing certain about his embrace of legal immigrants in the State of the Union is that he won’t follow through on it.
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Frank Sharry
Will..try..to..say..just..this..one..time...I agree with @RameshPonnuru. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @bopinion
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9 things you should know before Trump starts spewing lies in Tuesday address to the nation
It would be nice if Donald Trump would stick to the facts in his address to the nation, but that's not likely.
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Frank Sharry
Must read truth-telling by @SallyKohn on border/wall debate. usatoday.com/story/opinion/… via @usatoday
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Trump Referred to Shutdown as ‘Strike in Meeting With Democratic Leaders
The president also dropped three f-bombs and claimed Democrats wanted him impeached.
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Sounds like Trump was more unhinged in the meeting than he was in the press conference. Going forward, the whole Trump-McConnell dance off is gonna be lit.
thedailybeast.com/trump-referred… via @thedailybeast
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A New Moral Imagination on Immigration
Our job is to tell the truth about immigration instead of cowering before falsehoods. As long as we accept the Trump administration’s rhetoric on immigration and try to merely gain small victories against a harsh, restrictionist policy, we will...
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Frank Sharry
I get asked all the time: what do the Democrats stand for on immigration? Well, here's your answer. Terrific deep dive piece by @RepJayapal, a leading progressive voice in the House and an expert on the issue. nybooks.com/daily/2018/12/… via @nybooks
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Trump’s Nationalism Is Breaking Point for Some Suburban Voters, Risking G.O.P. Coalition
Educated, prosperous whites repelled by Mr. Trump’s strident language on race and gender are turning away from Republicanism, a boon for Democrats
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Frank Sharry
Smart reporting: "..the speaker of the Texas House, Joe Straus, who has sought to keep his party from drifting too far right. “It’s hard to grow a party when your whole approach is to incite the base.”
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Trump administration fails to comply with court order, keeps kids locked up
The administration hasn't remedied the damage it did
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Frank Sharry
Truth from @JRubinBlogger: "How the secretaries of HHS and DHS + the AG and WH staff who cooked this up have remained in ofc and rec'd no punishment remains yet another outrage in an admin. characterized by ignorance, cruelty and contempt for governance."
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Four reasons we’ve reached a tipping point on Trump
Trump has betrayed the country. So what next?
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Frank Sharry
.@JRubinBlogger is back: “It is not too soon for men and women of good character to demand Trump resign — not because he will do so, but because public servants must now focus on Trump’s danger to the country and how we can limit and eliminate it.”
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My bet on the American experiment
The notion that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights will outlast the Trump administration.
The real hoax about the border crisis
President Trump’s manufactured emergency has led to very real tragedy.
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Frank Sharry
.@crampell: "With virtually no facts on his side, he has managed to fabricate a multipart border emergency, and convince a majority of his own party that this imagined emergency necessitates state-sanctioned child abuse."
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Loyalty to Trump demands a lack of character
His followers are not asked to follow an ideology. They’re asked to embrace his impulses and instincts moving toward stoking racial and ethnic divisions.
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Gerson on Nielsen: "Enthusiastic or reluctant, the result of complicity is the same. Trump said, in effect: Prove your loyalty by endorsing cruelty toward migrant children. Nielsen willingly stepped across that line."
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We Republicans must all speak out to protect the Mueller investigation
Former U.S. attorney general: All members of Congress should protect the special counsel’s investigation from interference.
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Frank Sharry
The battle lines are clear. Patriotic public servants vs Trump and authoritarian enablers. I’m betting on the patriots.
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Trump’s cruel immigration approach is failing
He's out of step with America's values and constitutional tradition.
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.@JRubinBlogger with a must read: “Never before has it been more evident that Trump and his anti-immigration ideologues are entirely out of step with America’s values and constitutional tradition.”
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Will Trump finally pay a price for his abject cruelty?
The monstrous policy of child separation
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Frank Sharry
“Every parent in American, every decent American, will be sickened by the sight of young children being taken from the parents.” @JRubinBlogger lays out the moral and political perils for Trump and the GOP in a must read.
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Blame these people for Trump’s outrageous attack on truth and U.S. law enforcement
The silent Republicans are responsible.
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Frank Sharry
“Ultimately, history and the voters will judge all of these people. In the short run, voters in November should consider what a GOP..majority has wrought. Instead of curtailing an out-of-control, despotic president, they cower or, worse, cheer.”
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Advocates walk out of hearing to protest plan to separate migrant families
"It’s a policy that’s really so cruel and so harmful in its immediate impact that it felt like it called for an unusual response."
Jeff Sessions’s breathtaking policy of malice toward migrants
To deter illegal border crossings, the administration will traumatize children and families.
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Frank Sharry
WaPo editorial: "Trump and Sessions propose a breathtaking innovation: wrenching every small child away, as a matter of policy, from his or her family. They have now matched their demagoguery on immigration with malice"
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