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Trump’s Immigration Stunts Are Driving Progressive Voter Turnout
- by Candice Bernd | Truthout
- Published: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Further, another poll conducted by Lake Research Partner for the Women’s Refugee Commission shows that 60 percent of voters favor allowing refugees to seek asylum in the United States.
Trump’s Election Hail Mary: Block Migrants From Seeking Asylum
- by Scott Bixby | The Daily Beast
- Published: Thursday, November 1, 2018
Trump’s actions “violate international human rights law,” said Michelle Brané, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women’s Refugee Commission, and will exacerbate the administration’s current policies of intentionally undermining the asylum claims process. “This is about the continued gas-lighting of the country to perpetuate fear for political gain—and that is morally repugnant.”
Immigrant children are under attack. Here’s how to fight back
- by David Elliot | Voices for Human Needs
- Published: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
She cited a report by the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and Women’s Refugee Commission, which concluded: “Family detention cannot be carried our humanely. Conditions at the Artesia and Karnes facilities are entirely inappropriate for mothers and children. Detention traumatizes families, undermines the basic family structure, and has a devastating psycho-social impact.”
Migrant Detention Costs The U.S. Government $500,000 A Day Per Facility, Benefits For-Profit Corporations
- by Andrew Denny | Inquisitr
- Published: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
"It isn't that it's an unnecessary expense," says Michelle Brané of the Women's Refugee Commission. "It's not even that the contractors involved are charging exorbitant fees. The issue here is that it costs money to care for these children. The administration chose a tactic that was specifically intended to be cruel, and is also extremely expensive."
A single shelter for migrant children is costing the government over $500,000 a day
- by Justin Rohrlich | Quartz
- Published: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
“The costs of the administration’s policy of separating families went, and continues to go, far beyond the trauma that it causes on all ends,” Michelle Brané, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the nonprofit Women’s Refugee Commission, told Quartz. “And we haven’t even hit the tip of the iceberg.”
Legal fight looms as Trump admin considers caravan order that could violate federal law
- by ABC7
- Published: Monday, October 29, 2018
"This administration is intentionally undermining well-established procedures for safely vetting and reviewing asylum claims which is both illegal and flies in the face of our national traditions," said Michelle Brane, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission.
Legal fight looms as Trump admin considers caravan order that could violate federal law
- by Ariane de Vogue and Kyle Feldscher | CNN
- Published: Monday, October 29, 2018
"This administration is intentionally undermining well-established procedures for safely vetting and reviewing asylum claims which is both illegal and flies in the face of our national traditions," said Michelle Brane, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission.
On Lantern Tour, songs of exile, longing, and family
- by Andy Smith | The Boston Globe
- Published: Sunday, October 28, 2018
So the Lantern Tour, a five-city concert series starring a rotating cast of singer-songwriters, was organized in response to the Trump administration’s policy of family separation at the border between the United States and Mexico. Funds go to the Women’s Refugee Commission.
A throwback to socially conscious music from Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne and more
- by Scott Galupo | Washington Post
- Published: Friday, October 26, 2018
The Lantern Tour, as the brief five-city itinerary is officially dubbed, was in many ways a pleasant 20th-century throwback. Organized by the Women’s Refugee Commission, the benefit gathered Browne and fellow Americana luminaries Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin.
Weekend Music Ideas: October 26, 2018
- by Paul Robicheau | The Improper Bostonian
- Published: Friday, October 26, 2018
Emmylou Harris teams with Jackson Browne, Jerry Douglas, Lila Downs and Steve Earle at the Orpheum Theatre on Saturday for the Lantern Tour, an acoustic song-swap to benefit the Women’s Refugee Commission, which advocates for migrant and refugee families seeking shelter at the border. Here’s video from the Lantern Tour’s first stop, though Brandi Carlile won’t be at the Boston date.
Movimiento de Lila Downs busca apoyo de Shakira y Juanes
- by Diario de Mexico
- Published: Thursday, October 25, 2018
La idea era hacerlo público, elevar sus voces a través de la música y protestar sobre lo que ocurría en los centros de detención de Estados Unidos de familias y niños, para respaldar a la Comisión de Mujeres Refugiadas, una ONG que respalda a esas personas, cuyos derechos humanos no se han respetado.
Border policies unite artists for a concert and a cause
- by James Sullivan | Boston Globe
- Published: Thursday, October 25, 2018
Conceived by Harris and Earle as a response to the Trump administration’s “family separation” policy for immigrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border, the Lantern Tour is designed to keep a spotlight on the issue in a chaotic time. Proceeds will benefit the New York-based Women’s Refugee Commission.
Top 20 NJ Arts Events of the Week: ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’ concert, Powerhouse NYC, more
- by Jay Lustig | NJ Arts
- Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Emmylou Harris, Jackson Browne, Steve Earle, Shawn Colvin at Lila Downs will join forces for a show on “The Lantern Tour: Concerts for Migrant and Refugee Families,” Oct. 26 8 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood. According to a press release, the Women’s Refugee Commission organized the tour “as part of its ongoing work to end the Trump administration’s family separation policies and attempts to detain families seeking safety at the U.S. border.”
Halloween events, Meek Mill, Philly Bike Expo, and other events around Philadelphia, Oct. 26-Nov.1
- by Grace Dickinson | Philly.com
- Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Emmylou Harris has a long history of using music to do good works as a global citizen. In 1999, she founded the Concerts for a Landmine Free World and in 2016 brought Steve Earle, Robert Plant, and others to Philadelphia on the Lampedusa: Concerts for Refugees tour. Now the angelic-voiced country harmony singer is back with Earle, Jackson Browne, Shawn Colvin, and Lila Downs in tow for The Lantern Tour, a benefit for the Women's Refugee Commission, which raises money on behalf of migrant and refugee families at the U.S.-Mexico border. It's an everybody-on-stage-at-once acoustic evening.
The 'Democratic loopholes' the White House blames for border crisis
- by Caitlin Dickson | Yahoo! News
- Published: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Leah Chavla, an international human rights lawyer and policy advisor at the Women’s Refugee Commission, emphasized that there is a difference between “coaching” and legal guidance asylum seekers might receive ahead of a credible fear screening.
“It’s frustrating to see due process guarantees and people knowing their rights being described as ‘loopholes,’” she said.
More than 500 migrant children held in Texas "tent city" for months
- by Chantal da Silva | Newsweek
- Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Children taken into the care of state-licensed shelters would receive schooling and access to legal counsel, human rights lawyer Leah Chavla, who visited Tornillo on September 24, told Reuters. But, she said, "none of the children" at the site "were receiving schooling or regular mental health care, among other benefits to which they would be entitled if they were placed in a licensed shelter."
Migrant caravan puts Mexico back in US cross hairs
- by Azam Ahmed and Caitlin Dickerson | The New York Times via Australian Financial Review
- Published: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
"This is a reflection of what happens when you undermine orderly access to asylum," said Michelle Brane, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice program at the Women's Refugee Commission, an advocacy group. "You get chaos. And that's what this administration has done."
Call to move from siloing gender issues towards integrating approach in cash programming
- by Development Pathways
- Published: Monday, October 22, 2018
There was a discussion at the Cash and Gender event, co-led with ActionAid, CARE, UN Women and the Women’s Refugee Commission, on how social protection systems can be gender-transformative in the long-term. The event, which Development Pathways technical team participated in, touched upon how it is not enough for governments to put in place cash transfers for women from low-income families in developing countries to enter and access the market.
Hundreds of migrant children held in U.S. tent city for months: filings
- by WSAU
- Published: Monday, October 22, 2018
"None of the children at Tornillo were receiving schooling or regular mental health care, among other benefits to which they would be entitled if they were placed in a licensed shelter," said a court filing from Leah Chavla, a human rights lawyer who visited Tornillo on Sept. 24.
Quotation of the Day: Mexico, Overwhelmed by Surge of Migrants, Is Again in U.S. Cross Hairs
- by The New York Times
- Published: Monday, October 22, 2018
“This is a reflection of what happens when you undermine orderly access to asylum.” MICHELLE BRANÉ, a director at the Women’s Refugee Commission, an advocacy group, on the challenges posed by a large caravan of migrants heading toward Mexico and the United States.
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