Post-Election Hope for Immigrant Students Dimmed But Not Dead After Miller Named
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“Congress and states next year are much better positioned to hold oversight accountability over an administration that has been terrorizing children and families and create guardrails to protect communities — including an end to unchecked immigration raids, fast track deportations, and due process violations,” said Wendy Cervantes, director of immigration and immigrant families at The Center for Law and Social Policy.
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Congress, Cervantes said, could help detained parents make these decisions, ensure kids have legal counsel in immigration court — Trump failed to renew a critical contract that has left tens of thousands of young people with no one to defend them — and end family detention.
“My greatest hope for all the children who have had a piece of their childhood taken away by this administration’s cruel anti-immigrant agenda,” she said, “is that they can begin to see a future where they can just be kids again, where they can be proud of their immigrant roots, and believe that they can grow up to be whatever they want to be — including a member of Congress or state governor.”
