November Local Media Roundup
Going forward, VAAP will endeavor to collate monthly local media coverage of Vermont and nearby immigration justice issues of interest to our constituency. To kick us off:
VT’s immigrant farmworkers prepare for Trump’s mass deportation plan (VT Digger, November 26)
Welch introduces bill to protect immigrants’ personal effects from CBP mishandling during enforcement encounters (WCAX, November 25).
American Immigration Council analyzes “mass deportation” feasibility under U.S. immigration law (New York Times, November 21).
VAAP reflects on the legal ramifications for Vermont immigrants of a second Trump administration (Vermont Public, November 21)
Canada fears Trump’s mass deportations will push migrants north (New York Times, November 21)
Immigration tops the GOP-led Senate and House next session (WCAX, November 19)
Migrant Justice and ACLU VT forecast Vermont immigration under Trump (Vermont Public, November 19)
Trump’s deportation plan spurs calls for protections for Vermont farmworkers (Vermont Public, November 19)
Western Mass. prepares for ends to federal Temporary Protected Status programs (Vermont Public, November 19)
Migrant Justice farmworkers organizing to prepare for a second Trump Administration (Truthout, November 16)
Immigrants Assistance Center in New Bedford, Mass. prepare for a second Trump presidency (Vermont Public, November 15)
ACLU VT suit against Essex County Sheriff for violating Vermont’s Fair and Impartial Policing Policy (WCAX, November 13)
The effect of Trump’s “largest deportation program in American history” on Vermont’s tourism and agricultural industries, a “large swath” of which relies on immigrant labor for documented and un/der documented workers (WCAX, November 11)
VAAP reflects on the election results in the VT Digger (VT Digger, November 11)
Trump to appoint former ICE Director Tom Homan to lead the “largest deportation program in American history” as “border czar” including “targeted operations at worksites” here on the northern border (WCAX, November 11)
Federal District Court blocks Biden’s Keeping Families Together policy (WCAX, November 8)
Pawlet Select Board member sentenced for assaulting Migrant Justice compa (Manchester Journal, October 28)
Federal jury convicts Clinton County, NY man for human smuggling in the Swanton Sector (Department of Justice, October 23)
Canada charges border crossers into Manitoba with Customs Act violations and their driver with human smuggling under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Royal Canadian Mounted Policy, October 9)
