SOUTHERN BORDER -- Trump announced today that he would reopen the government he  single-handedly shut down during the holidays over his demands for a deadly and wasteful border wall. In a deal announced at the White House, Trump said he will sign a continuing resolution to fund the government until February 15th, effectively ending the longest government shutdown in US history exactly where he started: without a wall. Continue reading

WASHINGTON, DC--After news outlets reported that some “immigrant rights groups” would be meeting with President Trump, Vice President Pence and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner on Thursday to discuss the Trump-McConnell deal, national networks representing immigrant rights groups across the country and along the Southern Border, FIRM Action, United We Dream, UndocuBlack Network and the Southern Border Communities Coalition issued the following statement in response: Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER -- On Thursday, January 24, the Senate will take up Trump’s proposal that he negotiated with himself over the weekend to end a government shutdown he created by giving himself billions to build a border wall -- all while using immigrant youth, asylum seekers, federal workers, and border communities as bargaining chips.   Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER -- Today, President Trump proposed a series of failed and recycled ideas in his latest effort to build a useless and harmful border wall as 800,000 federal workers are set to miss a second paycheck in the longest-running government shutdown in US history. Continue reading

WASHINGTON - United We Dream, the Indivisible Project, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), MoveOn, UndocuBlack Network and the Southern Border Communities Coalition released the following statement: Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER --  Today, President Trump delivered a live, televised speech to the nation where he spread more lies and falsehoods to try to justify his border wall. This is the latest in Trump’s effort to manufacture a crisis in the southern border despite the reality that his proposed border wall is unnecessary, harmful and wasteful.   Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER -- Today, the House of Representatives passed a short-term spending bill to end the 13-day old partial government shutdown caused by President Trump’s obsession with his vanity wall. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER -- Christmas Eve, a time normally reserved for goodwill towards community and family, brought news of the second death of a child in U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) custody this month. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER -- President Trump stuffed bricks in the country’s stockings as he proudly headed toward a partial government shutdown over his border wall starting tonight, possibly leaving hundreds of thousands of federal employees without pay during the holiday season. Continue reading

SOUTHERN BORDER --  The tragic death of Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, who died of septic shock, fever, and dehydration while in Border Patrol custody is a stark reminder of the horrific human cost of militarizing the southern border with unaccountable agents and deadly walls. Continue reading