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Al Jazeera | 10.04.2017

The election of President Donald Trump has made the job of those protecting and defending the undocumented much harder.

by Debora Fougere

New York, United States – Every day, Edina does what many New York mums do. She gets her young sons, aged eight and six, ready for school, then goes off to her job, as a residential cleaner. Her husband, Bill*, works in construction, installing flooring. They have lived in Brooklyn for more than 12 years, building a good life for their family.

They go to the store, they go to the movies, they have friends, they pay taxes, their boys go to public school. They felt safe as they carved out their piece of the „American Dream“. That is, until Donald Trump took office.

„What makes me scared is not that I’m gonna get thrown out of the country,“ Edina says. „What makes me scared is that I’m gonna be separated from my kids. That would be a disaster.“

While their sons are US citizens, Edina and Bill are not. They are undocumented immigrants, who travelled from Hungary 12 years ago in search of a better life.

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DW | 28.03.2017

Die geplante Mauer an der Grenze zu Mexiko erinnere ihn „an die Berliner Mauer“, sagt Gouverneur Jerry Brown. Die angedrohten Massenabschiebungen seien unmenschlich. Der Bundesstaat geht auf die Barrikaden.

Man werde „strategisch“ vorgehen. Und niemand solle erwarten, dass man nur „dumme Klagen“ einreiche oder „täglich zum Gericht renne“: Der Gouverneur des US-Bundesstaates Kalifornien, Jerry Brown (Artikelfoto), kündigte bei einem Fernsehauftritt unmissverständlich harten Widerstand gegen zentrale Vorhaben der Trump-Administration an.

Die Amerikaner sollten „sehr vorsichtig sein“, wenn es um radikale Veränderungen wie eine neun Meter hohe Mauer gehe, „die einige drin, und andere draußen hält“, mahnte Brown im TV-Sender NBC. Präsident Donald Trumps Pläne erinnerten ihn „zu sehr an die Berliner Mauer“ und an die Politik anderer starker Männer, so der Demokrat, offensichtlich in Anspielung auf das DDR-Regime.

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RawStory | 28.12.2016

By David Ferguson

A network of 450 houses of worship across the country are stepping up to act as a kind of “underground railroad” for undocumented immigrants under the nascent Donald Trump administration.

The New York Times said that these churches, synagogues and mosques are all part of the Sanctuary Movement — an interfaith movement that began in the 1960s, but which has undergone a revival in recent years as the U.S. has stepped up deportation of undocumented immigrants.

The Sanctuary Movement has gained even more momentum since the election of Republican Donald Trump, who has pledged to deport 2 to 3 million unauthorized immigrants who he says are guilty of crimes. While not every church has the space and resources necessary to physically shelter immigrants, all 450 organizations have pledged to provide “money, legal aid, food, child care or transportation,” said the Times‘ Laurie Goodstein.

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