Relations between Latin America and Israel are about to get an important boost. For the first time since the founding of the Jewish state in May 1948, its sitting prime minister will visit the region.
By discontinuing the DACA program, which protected close to 800,000 undocumented young people from deportation, President Trump has turned away from the classic American credo that has immeasurably strengthened and defined America: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
We believe that recent events - particularly Charlottesville and some of the responses to it (including from President Trump) and the ugly comments about Jews made by imams in Davis and Riverside, California – require condemnation by people of good will in support of American democracy and values. While freedom of speech and expression is a core value, bigotry and hatred, regardless of their source, must be clearly and forcefully called out and condemned.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, appearing at an American Jewish Committee (AJC) event on Sept. 5, denounced the Trump administration’s decision to phase out an Obama-era program that protects undocumented immigrants who entered the country as minors from deportation.