{"id":370877,"date":"2018-07-26T03:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-abolish-ice-doesnt-go-far-enough\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T02:22:16","slug":"why-abolish-ice-doesnt-go-far-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/why-abolish-ice-doesnt-go-far-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Why “Abolish ICE” Doesn\u2019t Go Far Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JUAN<\/span> <\/span>GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong> <\/span>We end today\u2019s show with a leading Central American activist\u2019s response to the crisis prompting thousands in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to seek asylum in the United States. This week, the Trump administration announced it may have deported up to\u2014or, actually, disclosed it may have deported up to 463 parents of children separated by immigration officials at the border, even as their children remain in U.S. custody. This comes as a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to reunite all separated migrant children and parents by Thursday, July 26th. But the administration says just over 1,000 parents have been reunited with their children so far\u2014less than half of the families it must reunite by tomorrow. Earlier this month, President Trump pushed back against the court ruling mandating the reunification of families.<\/p>\n

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PRESIDENT<\/span> <\/span>DONALD<\/span> <\/span>TRUMP<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>Well, I have a solution: Tell people not to come to our country illegally. That\u2019s the solution. Don\u2019t come to our country illegally. Come like other people do. Come legally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AMY<\/span> <\/span>GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong> <\/span>This comes as a federal judge in Boston ruled Monday a lawsuit can proceed in court that argues the Trump administration\u2019s end to temporary protected status for immigrants in the United States from Honduras, Haiti, El Salvador was racially motivated. About 400,000 immigrants stand to lose their <\/span>TPS<\/span>, their temporary protected status, including more than 260,000 from El Salvador, nearly 60,000 people from Haiti and 86,000 from Honduras.<\/p>\n

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For more, we go to Chicago, where we\u2019re joined by Oscar Chac\u00f3n, executive director of Alianza Americas, the Alliance of the Americas, a network of Latin American immigrant-led organizations committed to advancing a public policy agenda to improving life in their communities in the U.S. and their countries of origin. His most recent <\/span>essay<\/a> <\/span>for <\/span>Medium<\/em> <\/span>is headlined \u201cWhy \u2018Abolish <\/span>ICE<\/span>\u2018 Doesn\u2019t…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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JUAN GONZ\u00c1LEZ: We end today\u2019s show with a leading Central American activist\u2019s response to the crisis prompting thousands in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to seek asylum in the United States. This week, the Trump administration announced it may have deported up to\u2014or, actually, disclosed it may have deported up to 463 parents of children […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}