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With the advent of Trump’s Travel and Muslim Bans, discussion about immigration to the United States has become more of a hot button issue and nowhere is this more evident than in the national conversation surrounding refugee resettlement. Recently, many organizations have stepped to the forefront when it comes to raising their voices about the legal issues refugees face upon arrival in the U.S.
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Donald Trump wants to deport all undocumented people in the United States. More than 800,000 of these people are Dreamers, undocumented individuals who either came to the U.S. very young or were born here and have received DACA grants that allow them to stay and work and attend college. With Trump’s rescission of this DACA program, these Dreamers face deportation from the only home they’ve ever known.
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65.6 million people in the world are displaced and the numbers show no sign of slowing down. American sentiment toward refugees has proven to be less than favorable and according to some, also will not cease.
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Mickey Bush, a UNC Asheville student, reflects on what it is like being a young queer person in Trump’s America.
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His xenophobic rhetoric is used by several of his supporters who verbally or even physically assault anyone who does not fit their narrow mold of what they believe an American should look or sound like.
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In the 49th senate meeting, SGA discussed their plans for the campus community and how to move forward from the executive order impacting international travel, as well as its impact on the campus community.
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In Asheville, a large group of individuals gathered at Vance Monument to express solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. They stand firmly against the North Dakota Pipeline that President Donald Trump is eager to push forth.
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R. Gray Opinion Section Editor rgray1@unca.edu President Trump is trying, in haunting Orwellian fashion, to be the sole arbiter of
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We talked to a Trump supporter and a Trump protester on the weekend on January 20-21.
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The events that took place in Washington D.C. on the weekend of January 20-21 are still having strong effects on a national conversation.
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