Isabela Dias
Staff Reporter at Mother Jones
@MotherJones reporter | @columbiajourn, @folha alum.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Isabela Dias
On Wednesday, the Trump administration issued a new travel ban on foreigners, primarily targeting people from countries in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. Under the guise of protecting the United States against “foreign terrorists” and national security threats, this executive order amounts to an even more sweeping bar than the infamous travel ban on Muslim majority nations President Donald Trump implemented during his first term.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Isabela Dias
On May 30, Frizgeralth de Jesús Cornejo Pulgar was scheduled for a hearing in a United States immigration court. But Cornejo Pulgar—an asylum seeker from Venezuela fleeing potential persecution from paramilitary groups aligned with the government of Nicolás Maduro—was not able to attend the proceeding. The 26-year-old is stuck in El Salvador.
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4 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Isabela Dias
On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration had taken new steps towards “building an America First State Department” by notifying Congress of a “reorganization plan.” The massive overhaul, first proposed in April, will reportedly downsize or eliminate hundreds of bureaus and offices; cut thousands of domestic civil service and foreign service jobs; and redirect the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor to focus on “Democracy and Western Values.” A...
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Isabela Dias
A federal district court judge in Boston ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s attempt to send several immigrants from other countries to South Sudan violated a court order blocking the government from deporting people to third countries without allowing them to object to their removal. Judge Brian E.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Isabela Dias
In a 7-2 ruling on Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court once again barred the Trump administration from removing Venezuelans held at Texas immigration detention centers under the Alien Enemies Act, which gives the government extraordinary powers to summarily deport noncitizens during a “declared war” or “invasion.” The justices found that the federal government violated the due process rights of detainees at Bluebonnet Detention Facility by failing to give them enough notice to contest their...
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NEW: A DOJ notice encouraging immigrants to "self-deport' is being posted in immigration courts across the country and sent to lawyers, including when their clients have already won asylum. Attorneys say the notice is misleading and a "scare tactic." https://t.co/2JlWJ21sdd
RT @ReichlinMelnick: NEW! Two weeks ago Trump was stopped from sending more people to be imprisoned in El Salvador. Now we're learning who…
RT @nlanard: New: @isabelaalhadeff and I spoke to lawyers and a relative of Venezuelans at the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas at risk…