November 13, 2019 AFSCME Stands with Dreamers as Supreme Court Weighs their Future AFSCME will continue to stand with Dreamers, whose future is being weighed by the Supreme Court in a case involving an Obama-era policy known as DACA. Read More
February 15, 2019 AFSCME President Calls Trump’s Emergency Declaration ‘An Abuse of Power’ President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration is an “abuse of power,” according to AFSCME President Lee Saunders. Read More
December 17, 2018 Fight the Separation of Southeast Asian Families Today’s deportation of members of the Cambodian-American community is wrong. Make your voice heard to stop it. Read More
November 14, 2018 Public Charge Rule Would Turn American Dream into Nightmare for Millions A new rule by the Trump administration would subject immigrants to indecency and indignity. It runs counter to AFSCME’s values. Read More
June 20, 2018 AFSCME Co-Signs Human Rights Complaint, Calls Out Trump’s ‘Inhumane’ Policy AFSCME has co-signed a complaint to the United Nations in response to the Trump administration’s inhumane policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Read More
February 20, 2018 DACA Hits Home for This AFSCME Member The DACA debate isn’t academic for this AFSCME member in Minnesota. It’s very real for this “dreamer” because ending the program could uproot her life. Read More
February 09, 2018 Budget Agreement Reached, DREAMers Still in Limbo While a bipartisan budget deal has been reached and the federal government shutdown has been averted, the fate of the DREAMERs still hangs in the balance. Read More
January 31, 2018 AFSCME: Working People Not Buying Trump’s Speech In response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, AFSCME President Lee Saunders said working families disagree with the chief executive’s assessment of their country and are unhappy with his track record. Read More
January 19, 2018 Don’t Shut Down Uncle Sam. Pass Dreamers Bill. Renew CHIP. AFSCME to Congress – don’t shut down the government. Also fix DACA and renew CHIP. Read More
September 05, 2017 Congress Must Save the DREAMers Some 800,000 children of undocumented immigrants – known as DREAMers – face deportation under President Donald Trump’s order. Congress must stop it. Read More
April 24, 2017 Call Trump to Stop the Shutdown With a government shutdown looming, tell President Trump to act now to protect our public services. Read More
March 10, 2017 Where Can You Find Atrocious Conditions? Try Private Prisons. A private prison operator forced tens of thousands of immigrants who were detained on suspicions of being undocumented to work for $1 a day or for free, according to a lawsuit. Read More
March 02, 2017 AFSCME Helps Florida Members Become U.S. Citizens Becoming a U.S. citizen is a confusing, expensive and lengthy process, but Florida AFSCME is hoping to ease the burden on immigrants in South Florida by providing free clinics. Read More
February 21, 2017 Trump’s Immigration Policies ‘Nothing Short of Mass Deportation’ Trump’s new immigration push ‘nothing sort of mass deportation,” AFSCME Pres. Lee Saunders says. Read More
January 31, 2017 AFSCME Opposes Trump’s Bigoted and Irresponsible Migrant Ban “AFSCME is proud to join thousands in states across the country to speak out against Donald Trump’s bigoted and irresponsible executive order” banning Muslims from certain countries from entry into the U.S., said President Lee Saunders. Read More
November 04, 2016 South Florida Immigration Clinic Helping Members Become Citizens The Citizenship Clinic put on by the South Florida AFL-CIO CLC helps immigrant union members become U.S. citizens. Read More