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Amnesty International USA: Court Ruling Shows New Refugee Order is More of the Same Hateful Bigotry
Following a ruling by a federal judge in Wisconsin temporarily blocking President Trump’s revised Muslim ban from applying to a Syrian man and his family, Margaret Huang, executive director Amnesty…
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Amnesty International USA Launches Campaign to Free Young Children and Mothers Detained by ICE for Over 500 Days
Amnesty International USA is launching a campaign today urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release several families with young children being detained at the Berks County Residential Center in…
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Amnesty International Launches Day of Action to Repeal Trump’s Muslim Ban on March 7
Amnesty International USA will mobilize its 1.2 million members and supporters across the country today to oppose President Trump’s new executive order banning travelers from six majority-Muslim countries. Activists will…
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Amnesty International USA Endorses National Women’s Strike, Set for March 8
Amnesty International USA today announced that it is endorsing and supporting “A Day Without A Woman,” a day of strike taking place on March 8 to call for justice and…
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Congress Must Reject Trump’s Insistence on Writing Bigotry into Policy
Following President Trump’s remarks before a joint session of Congress this evening, Amnesty International USA executive director Margaret Huang issued the following statement:
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Young Mother Needs Care She Can’t Get in ICE detention
A neurosurgeon who examined Sara Beltran Hernandez, a 26-year-old mother detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed that she is suffering from a pituitary brain tumor that had bled into…
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Amnesty International Response to DHS Report on Trump Travel Ban
In response to reports that the Homeland Security Department's intelligence arm has found that citizenship of the seven Muslim-majority countries in the proposed travel ban is an "unlikely indicator" of…
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Amnesty International USA Launches Campaign to Free Young Mother Detained by ICE for 15 Months
Amnesty International USA is launching a campaign today urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a 26-year-old woman on parole so she can obtain urgent medical treatment and be…
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DHS Immigration Orders Will Likely Lead to Human Rights Abuses
In response to new Department of Homeland Security policies aimed at harsher immigration enforcement, Justin Mazzola, researcher for Amnesty International USA, released the following statement.
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The State of the World’s Human Rights
Politicians wielding a toxic, dehumanizing “us vs them” rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, warned Amnesty International today as it launched its annual assessment of human rights…
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Amnesty International Pleas to Not Repeat History on 75th Anniversary of Japanese American Mass Imprisonments
Seventy-five years ago this weekend, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, paving the way for the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in camps during World War II, the…
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Three Concerns the Senate Committee Should Raise with David Friedman
[caption id="attachment_74067" align="alignleft" width="3000"] (Alex Wong/Getty Images)[/caption] Ambassadors are on the front lines of diplomacy, where they can head off conflict or be the cause of the next war. They…