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U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut is part of a congressional delegation touring a migrant youth detention center in South Florida Tuesday. "There are currently 2292 unaccompanied minors being housed here,'' Hayes tweeted Tuesday afternoon, before entering the facilty.
U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Southfield) will join other members of Congress on Tuesday as part of a delegation visiting a migrant detention facility in Florida. Lawrence and seven other members of the Democratic House majority will tour the Homestead facility near Miami.
Political heavy hitters from Michigan and elsewhere will descend on Detroit at the end of July for the NAACP’s 110th annual convention. The African American civil rights and policy organization announced recently that speakers at the convention will include several of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates, as well as Michigan’s U.S. Reps.
Residents impacted by the Muslim Ban, advocates, community groups, and Congressional members came together June 28 to blast the Trump Administration’s Muslim Ban which prohibits travel of residents from mostly Muslim-majority countries from the United States. The week marked the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding ban. U.S. Reps.
A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers on Monday toured a critical “choke point” stopping invasive Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan. Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) and Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Twp.), along with U.S. Reps. Tim Walberg (R-Tipton) Fred Upton (R-St.
Activists and members of Congress protested this week in Detroit President Donald Trump’s ban on residents traveling from mostly Muslim-majority countries from the United States. Friday was the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the Muslim ban and protesters called for its repeal. U.S. Reps.
Call them what you will — migrant detention camps, concentration camps, internment centers. Regardless, the conditions are undeniably awful. Kids are dying and being denied medical treatment. The Trump administration deosn't want to give kids toothbrushes, soap, or other items for basic hygiene.
The offices of Michigan congresspeople Rashida Tlaib, Debbie Dingell, Brenda Lawrence, and Andy Levin held a press conference on Friday to call to repeal President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban. The event highlighted the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow for a travel ban that largely targets majority-Muslim countries. Congress has introduced legislation (H.R.
Attacking Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin from the steps of the Treasury Department in Washington on Thursday, Democratic leaders demanded that President Donald Trump put legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 following Mnuchin’s decision to indefinitely delay the bill’s introduction.
A $4.6 billion humanitarian aid package for the southern U.S. border is poised to be enacted after top U.S. House Democrats reluctantly helped pass a version of the legislation adopted by the U.S. Senate. The Democratic-led U.S.