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April 18, 2018 Durbin Grills Justice Department On Politicization Of Immigration Courts Sen. Dick Durbin
April 18, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General - Senators Murray, Cantwell Urge Department of Justice to Restart Legal Orientation Program Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
April 17, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General - All Senate and House Judiciary Democrats Condemn Recent Actions by the Justice Department Undermining Due Process Protections for Immigrants Rep. Brad Schneider, ...
April 17, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - TPS Rulings Rep. Mike Quigley, ...
April 11, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Administration is so determined to deport immigrants it doesn't even want them to know about their legal rights. Republicans who control Congress have the power to stop this attack on due process." Sen. Dick Durbin
April 10, 2018 Tweet - "800,000 young people are living in fear because of the DACA crisis that President Trump created. It's now time for Republicans to ignore this President and work with Democrats to protect Dreamers #DreamActNow." Sen. Dick Durbin
April 5, 2018 Democrats Meet with Millennials in Elgin on College Costs, "Dreamers' Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
April 5, 2018 Letter to Thomas D. Homan, Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Policy Allowing Increased Detention of Pregnant Women Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
April 2, 2018 Tweet - "The President is blaming everyone under the sun, but he only has to look in the mirror to find the person who turned down six different bipartisan DACA deals from Congress - a few that included funding for his useless wall. This is a crisis of his own creation." Sen. Dick Durbin
April 2, 2018 Tweet - "The only person the country needs on the "DACA bandwagon" is the President. He's rejected deal after deal to save the program he unilaterally chose to end." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 30, 2018 LaHood, Krishnamoorthi deliver bipartisan message at Bradley Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
March 29, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security and the Hon. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State - Chairman Crowley and Reps. Meng, Polis Urge Federal Government to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Nepalese Nationals Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 28, 2018 Tweet - "The crisis that President Trump created by ending the DACA program isn't going away, and I will not rest until these young people have the future in America that they deserve. #DreamActNow" Sen. Dick Durbin
March 28, 2018 Tweet - "Senator Dick Durbin Retweeted Washington Post President Trump wants immigrants to pay higher taxes, and make it harder for people to claim legal status as a result. Is being employed and properly paying your taxes now no match for this Administration's anti-immigrant agenda?" Sen. Dick Durbin
March 27, 2018 Tweet - "Imagine fleeing a brutal civil war to come to the land of opportunity to work and build a life in peace, only to be told now that you can either kiss your children goodbye or remain here illegally. That's the choice President Trump just gave these Liberian immigrants." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 27, 2018 Tweet - "A census citizenship question would reverse decades of precedent and undoubtedly result in an unfair and inaccurate count. Politics has no place in the census, but this administration will stop at nothing to push its anti-immigrant agenda. Nothing." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 23, 2018 Duckworth Sounds Alarm on the Imminent Deportation of United States Combat Veteran Sen. Ladda Duckworth
March 23, 2018 Tweet - "85% of the American people believe we ought to do what's right and fair for these young people. They support the Dreamers and they support giving DACA protection. 85%. 60% of those who voted for President Trump say we should do it." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 22, 2018 Letter to Mr. Kelly - Investigate Allegations Of Separation Of Children From Asylum-Seeking Parents At U.S. Border Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
March 22, 2018 Letter to John Kelly, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Investigate Resignation of San Francisco ICE Spokesman Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
March 22, 2018 Letter to John Kelly, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Investigate Allegations of Separation of Children From Asylum-Seeking Parents at U.S. Border U.S. BORDER Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
March 21, 2018 Daca Sen. Dick Durbin
March 19, 2018 Tweet - "Hundreds of thousands of young lives hang in the balance because President Trump ended the DACA program, and yet he only seems focused on one thing right now: undermining the Mueller investigation. It's up to Congress to act in a bipartisan way to help these Dreamers." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 19, 2018 Letter to the Hon. John Carter, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security and the Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security - Jayapal Leads More Than 50 Members to Protect Families From Being Torn Apart at the Border Rep. Bill Foster, ...
March 15, 2018 Letter to the Hon. John Gore, Acting Assistant Attorney General - Demand Answers from DOJ on Potential Census Citizenship Question Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
March 15, 2018 Duckworth Statement On Miguel Perez, Jr. Sen. Ladda Duckworth
March 13, 2018 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act Sen. Dick Durbin
March 13, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the House, the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Hon. Nita Lowey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations - 83 Democrats Demand Dream Act Be Added to Omnibus & That Funding for Deportations, Detention and Walls Be Stripped Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
March 13, 2018 Tweet - "President Trump travels to California today to look at prototypes of his wasteful and ineffective border wall. Might he find time on his schedule to meet with any of the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers he's holding hostage to his anti-immigrant agenda?" Sen. Dick Durbin
March 12, 2018 Letter to L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Oppose USCIS Removal of "Nation of Immigrants" in Mission Statement Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 12, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State and the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Asking Why Syrian Threatened by Violence Were Denied Opportunity to Apply for Protected Status Sen. Dick Durbin, ...
March 8, 2018 Letter to Thomas Homan, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Regarding License Plate Reader Data From a Commercial Vendor Rep. Robin Kelly, ...
March 8, 2018 Letter to The Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Senators Murray, Cantwell Call On Trump Homeland Security Secretary to Expedite DACA Renewal Process Sen. Ladda Duckworth, ...
March 8, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security and the Hon. Francis Cissna, Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services - Demand Swift Processing for DACA Applications Rep. Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 8, 2018 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act Sen. Dick Durbin
March 7, 2018 Tweet - "Today DHS Secretary Nielsen promised me that DHS will not deport any DACA recipient with a pending DACA application, even if their DACA status has expired. I intend to hold her to this commitment and I urge every DACA recipient to file a renewal application immediately." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 7, 2018 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act--Motion to Proceed Sen. Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Executive Session Sen. Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Denounces Congressional Inaction On DACA Rep. Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
March 5, 2018 Tweet - "6 months ago, President Trump ended DACA by saying he still had "great love" for Dreamers. Since then, he's turned down bipartisan deal after bipartisan deal. It's time for him to live by his words & endorse a deal that doesn't hold Dreamers hostage to his anti-immigrant agenda." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Tweet - "Six months ago, President Trump created the DACA crisis. For six months, his administration has used every available legal option to prevent Dreamers from keeping their DACA protection." Sen. Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Durbin: Trump Created The DACA Crisis Six Months Ago Today. What Happens Next Is Up To Republican Congressional Leaders Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 26, 2018 Durbin Statement On Supreme Court Decision On White House DACA Case Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 24, 2018 Tweet - "The President created the DACA crisis six months ago, and he continues to work against the program in court. It's up to Republican leaders in Congress to take yes for an answer and accept one of the many bipartisan solutions on the table to save these young people #DreamActNow." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 23, 2018 Tweet - "President Trump - who created the DACA crisis in September & has rejected 6 bipartisan offers to solve it - isn't fooling anyone. Congress could pass the #DreamAct today if he had the courage to ask Republicans to support it. But he won't "take the heat."" Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 22, 2018 Tweet - "Starting in 11 days, 1,000 Dreamers every single day will lose their protection & be subject to deportation. This is a crisis created by President Trump, yet he's refused 6 bipartisan offers to solve it. I won't stop working until we give these young people a future in America." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Let's be honest, President Trump's plan is to ransom these young Dreamers in exchange for his entire anti-immigrant agenda." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Reducing legal immigration by more than 40 percent by barring Americans from sponsoring their parents, siblings and children as immigrants." Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 16, 2018 Tweet - "122. The number of Dreamers who lose their protected status each day. 1,000. The number of Dreamers who will lose their protected status each day after March 5th. 6. The number of bipartisan Congressional deals the President has rejected to solve the DACA crisis he created."
Sen. Dick Durbin
Feb. 15, 2018 Tweet - "When the President ended DACA 5 months ago, he set in motion a crisis jeopardizing the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people and their families. This crisis isn't going away, and I won't rest until Dreamers and their families have the future in America that they deserve." Sen. Dick Durbin
Date Title Politician
April 18, 2018 Durbin Grills Justice Department On Politicization Of Immigration Courts Sen.Dick Durbin
April 18, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General - Senators Murray, Cantwell Urge Department of Justice to Restart Legal Orientation Program Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
April 17, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Jeff Sessions, Attorney General - All Senate and House Judiciary Democrats Condemn Recent Actions by the Justice Department Undermining Due Process Protections for Immigrants Rep.Brad Schneider, ...
April 17, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - TPS Rulings Rep.Mike Quigley, ...
April 11, 2018 Tweet - "The Trump Administration is so determined to deport immigrants it doesn't even want them to know about their legal rights. Republicans who control Congress have the power to stop this attack on due process." Sen.Dick Durbin
April 10, 2018 Tweet - "800,000 young people are living in fear because of the DACA crisis that President Trump created. It's now time for Republicans to ignore this President and work with Democrats to protect Dreamers #DreamActNow." Sen.Dick Durbin
April 5, 2018 Democrats Meet with Millennials in Elgin on College Costs, "Dreamers' Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
April 5, 2018 Letter to Thomas D. Homan, Acting Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Policy Allowing Increased Detention of Pregnant Women Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
April 2, 2018 Tweet - "The President is blaming everyone under the sun, but he only has to look in the mirror to find the person who turned down six different bipartisan DACA deals from Congress - a few that included funding for his useless wall. This is a crisis of his own creation." Sen.Dick Durbin
April 2, 2018 Tweet - "The only person the country needs on the "DACA bandwagon" is the President. He's rejected deal after deal to save the program he unilaterally chose to end." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 30, 2018 LaHood, Krishnamoorthi deliver bipartisan message at Bradley Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi, ...
March 29, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security and the Hon. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State - Chairman Crowley and Reps. Meng, Polis Urge Federal Government to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Nepalese Nationals Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 28, 2018 Tweet - "The crisis that President Trump created by ending the DACA program isn't going away, and I will not rest until these young people have the future in America that they deserve. #DreamActNow" Sen.Dick Durbin
March 28, 2018 Tweet - "Senator Dick Durbin Retweeted Washington Post President Trump wants immigrants to pay higher taxes, and make it harder for people to claim legal status as a result. Is being employed and properly paying your taxes now no match for this Administration's anti-immigrant agenda?" Sen.Dick Durbin
March 27, 2018 Tweet - "Imagine fleeing a brutal civil war to come to the land of opportunity to work and build a life in peace, only to be told now that you can either kiss your children goodbye or remain here illegally. That's the choice President Trump just gave these Liberian immigrants." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 27, 2018 Tweet - "A census citizenship question would reverse decades of precedent and undoubtedly result in an unfair and inaccurate count. Politics has no place in the census, but this administration will stop at nothing to push its anti-immigrant agenda. Nothing." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 23, 2018 Duckworth Sounds Alarm on the Imminent Deportation of United States Combat Veteran Sen.Ladda Duckworth
March 23, 2018 Tweet - "85% of the American people believe we ought to do what's right and fair for these young people. They support the Dreamers and they support giving DACA protection. 85%. 60% of those who voted for President Trump say we should do it." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 22, 2018 Letter to Mr. Kelly - Investigate Allegations Of Separation Of Children From Asylum-Seeking Parents At U.S. Border Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
March 22, 2018 Letter to John Kelly, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Investigate Resignation of San Francisco ICE Spokesman Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
March 22, 2018 Letter to John Kelly, Acting Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security - Investigate Allegations of Separation of Children From Asylum-Seeking Parents at U.S. Border U.S. BORDER Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
March 21, 2018 Daca Sen.Dick Durbin
March 19, 2018 Tweet - "Hundreds of thousands of young lives hang in the balance because President Trump ended the DACA program, and yet he only seems focused on one thing right now: undermining the Mueller investigation. It's up to Congress to act in a bipartisan way to help these Dreamers." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 19, 2018 Letter to the Hon. John Carter, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security and the Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security - Jayapal Leads More Than 50 Members to Protect Families From Being Torn Apart at the Border Rep.Bill Foster, ...
March 15, 2018 Letter to the Hon. John Gore, Acting Assistant Attorney General - Demand Answers from DOJ on Potential Census Citizenship Question Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
March 15, 2018 Duckworth Statement On Miguel Perez, Jr. Sen.Ladda Duckworth
March 13, 2018 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act Sen.Dick Durbin
March 13, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, the Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Leader of the House, the Hon. Rodney Frelinghuysen, Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Hon. Nita Lowey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Appropriations - 83 Democrats Demand Dream Act Be Added to Omnibus & That Funding for Deportations, Detention and Walls Be Stripped Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
March 13, 2018 Tweet - "President Trump travels to California today to look at prototypes of his wasteful and ineffective border wall. Might he find time on his schedule to meet with any of the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers he's holding hostage to his anti-immigrant agenda?" Sen.Dick Durbin
March 12, 2018 Letter to L. Francis Cissna, Director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services - Oppose USCIS Removal of "Nation of Immigrants" in Mission Statement Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 12, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State and the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Asking Why Syrian Threatened by Violence Were Denied Opportunity to Apply for Protected Status Sen.Dick Durbin, ...
March 8, 2018 Letter to Thomas Homan, Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Regarding License Plate Reader Data From a Commercial Vendor Rep.Robin Kelly, ...
March 8, 2018 Letter to The Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security - Senators Murray, Cantwell Call On Trump Homeland Security Secretary to Expedite DACA Renewal Process Sen.Ladda Duckworth, ...
March 8, 2018 Letter to the Hon. Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security and the Hon. Francis Cissna, Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services - Demand Swift Processing for DACA Applications Rep.Jan Schakowsky, ...
March 8, 2018 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act Sen.Dick Durbin
March 7, 2018 Tweet - "Today DHS Secretary Nielsen promised me that DHS will not deport any DACA recipient with a pending DACA application, even if their DACA status has expired. I intend to hold her to this commitment and I urge every DACA recipient to file a renewal application immediately." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 7, 2018 Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act--Motion to Proceed Sen.Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Executive Session Sen.Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi Denounces Congressional Inaction On DACA Rep.Subramanian Krishnamoorthi
March 5, 2018 Tweet - "6 months ago, President Trump ended DACA by saying he still had "great love" for Dreamers. Since then, he's turned down bipartisan deal after bipartisan deal. It's time for him to live by his words & endorse a deal that doesn't hold Dreamers hostage to his anti-immigrant agenda." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Tweet - "Six months ago, President Trump created the DACA crisis. For six months, his administration has used every available legal option to prevent Dreamers from keeping their DACA protection." Sen.Dick Durbin
March 5, 2018 Durbin: Trump Created The DACA Crisis Six Months Ago Today. What Happens Next Is Up To Republican Congressional Leaders Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 26, 2018 Durbin Statement On Supreme Court Decision On White House DACA Case Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 24, 2018 Tweet - "The President created the DACA crisis six months ago, and he continues to work against the program in court. It's up to Republican leaders in Congress to take yes for an answer and accept one of the many bipartisan solutions on the table to save these young people #DreamActNow." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 23, 2018 Tweet - "President Trump - who created the DACA crisis in September & has rejected 6 bipartisan offers to solve it - isn't fooling anyone. Congress could pass the #DreamAct today if he had the courage to ask Republicans to support it. But he won't "take the heat."" Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 22, 2018 Tweet - "Starting in 11 days, 1,000 Dreamers every single day will lose their protection & be subject to deportation. This is a crisis created by President Trump, yet he's refused 6 bipartisan offers to solve it. I won't stop working until we give these young people a future in America." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Let's be honest, President Trump's plan is to ransom these young Dreamers in exchange for his entire anti-immigrant agenda." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 16, 2018 Tweet - "Reducing legal immigration by more than 40 percent by barring Americans from sponsoring their parents, siblings and children as immigrants." Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 16, 2018 Tweet - "122. The number of Dreamers who lose their protected status each day. 1,000. The number of Dreamers who will lose their protected status each day after March 5th. 6. The number of bipartisan Congressional deals the President has rejected to solve the DACA crisis he created."
Sen.Dick Durbin
Feb. 15, 2018 Tweet - "When the President ended DACA 5 months ago, he set in motion a crisis jeopardizing the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people and their families. This crisis isn't going away, and I won't rest until Dreamers and their families have the future in America that they deserve." Sen.Dick Durbin
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