The case is an example of an "anti-immigrant environment that is spreading throughout the country," Gascon said.
As reflected in the data presented in this blog, the Latino population is very conscious of this tension, as a robust 76% of Latino registered voters believe that an anti-Hispanic and anti-immigrant environment exists today.
The bureau has long recognized that anti-immigrant environments make citizenship questions problematic.
Trump has led a relentless assault on workers, minorities, women, immigrants, the environment and on the rule of law itself.
The Women's March in D.C. and in cities across the country brought millions into the streets to declare support for an unabashedly feminist — and progressive — agenda and to oppose President Trump's attacks on women's rights, immigrants, the environment, the Affordable Care Act and more.
The individual issues are all too real: assaults on unions, public employees, women's rights, immigrants, the environment, health care, voting rights, food safety, pensions, prenatal care, science, public broadcasting, and on and on.
Or will they make their own Faustian bargains with the president who gives them access and influence into a state newly committed to their "religious right" political agendas — devoid of any concerns for the poor, racial justice, refugees and immigrants, the environment or, indeed, the Christian call to peace-making and conflict resolution.
Drawing on interviews with a race and class spectrum of established Americans in three different Silicon Valley cities, The Other Side of Assimilation illuminates how established Americans make sense of their experiences in immigrant-rich environments, in work, school, public interactions, romantic life, and leisure activities.
It is a short trip from this to increased surveillance of left political movements such as those for racial justice, the environment, immigrant rights, and labor".
"The religious right has been irresponsibly consistent in focusing on a very narrow set of priorities to abortion and religious liberty, which often comes at the expense of a much more holistic and consistent ethic of life that recognized that how our nation treats the poor, the immigrant, women, the environment and are also core gospel issues," Taylor said.
Catholic teaching has a rich and expansive vision that recognizes seeking peace, caring for the poor, the unborn, the immigrant and our environment -- "promoting the common good in all its forms" in the words of Pope Benedict XVI -- are all integral.
