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A HuffPost investigation found hundreds of immigration cases where the ban irrevocably affected life--and death.

I have lived it and I have suffered through it and I know that when people say “get in line,” there is no line. I am here to try to change the system so that people have a pathway and if they choose to become a citizen, they can.

...little attention is being paid to the millions of people in the most overcrowded conditions that are ripe for the spread of this contagious and deadly virus: the people behind bars in America’s jails, prisons, and immigration detention centers.

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Rep. Ted Deutch released data on the claims amid a hearing on the Trump administration’s policy of family separations at the border.

Annunciation House shelter still receives calls each week about new cases of separations in El Paso, legal coordinator said

The Trump administration says it can’t reunite missing migrant children with their families; instead, many of the children are being shipped to a Christian adoption agency with ties to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. They just don’t care.

The targeting of immigrants is intimately linked to a long record of labor repression and civil liberties violations — which eventually target the native-born, too.