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Congressmen Randy Hultgren and Jim McGovern , Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, say they "regret"Tuesday's decision by the Trump Administration to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The announcement to withdraw from the Council was made by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Advocates, immigrants, and elected officials on Monday decried the Trump administration's decision to revoke a provisional status that has protected tens of thousands of immigrants from Honduras from deportation for nearly 20 years. Patricia Montes, executive director of Centro Presente, the immigrant advocacy group based in East Boston that organized Monday's rally at the State House, called the termination of temporary protected status for Honduras an "ill-advised and cruel decision."
Giovana Ortiz fought back sobs as she told the audience of the uncertainty she experienced as an undocumented immigrant who was brought to the United States when she was 2. She discussed being raised as an American but trying to take the PSATs and SATs without a Social Security number. She detailed how she spiraled into a deep depression as college seemed increasingly out of the question.
U.S. Rep. James P. McGovern told a crowd at the Uxbridge Progressive Club Thursday night that, like pretty much all the others in the room, he was unhappy with the presidential election, the conflicts of interest, and the "tweets, the temper tantrums, the erratic behavior" coming from President Donald J. Trump. "We worry very much about our country in a way we never did before," the Worcester Democrat told some 70 people at Go Blue in the Blackstone Valley, an event hosted by the Uxbridge Democratic Town Committee to re-energize Democrats in the region. Democrats from not only Uxbridge, but Northbridge, Milford, Westboro, Douglas, Worcester, Blackstone and Charlton filled the room.
The bill would ban the use of federal money for abortion, including in insurance subsidized through the Affordable Care Act. Smith ban on abortion funding up again in the House The bill would ban the use of federal money for abortion, including in insurance subsidized through the Affordable Care Act.
Congressman James McGovern led a Democratic Capitol Hill debate Friday as ascendant Republicans drove a budget through Congress that gives them an early but critical victory in their crusade to scrap the Affordable Care Act.
Donald Trump's new luxury hotel in Washington D.C. has been attracting foreign envoys, special interest groups - and a bit of controversy. One of the latest groups to book the hotel is the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank whose big donors will gather there Tuesday night for a speech from Vice-President-elect Mike Pence.
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He has likened the rise of Donald Trump to the rise of Adolf Hitler. He has caustically chided Republican Governor Charlie Baker for confusing Syrian "refugees and those from whom they need refuge."