America’s Voice ICYMI: Texas Tribune Uncovers Rotten Meat, Chicken Pox Outbreaks For Hundreds of Asylum Seekers One Year Mark Until 50,000 Haitian Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Holders Will Be Forcibly Deported, Families Separated Without Congressional Action The Scope and Toll of the Trump Administration’s Ongoing Assault on Immigrants, Refugees...
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In the latest episode of our podcast, we spoke with Yaheiry Mora, Director of CASA in Action. Last fall, Republicans tried to use Trumpist, anti-immigrant messaging in the campaign for Virginia governor — and it backfired horribly. That route has also failed to work in numerous races around the country...
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Is she a careerist, cowed by Trump, willfully blind, evil — or all of the above? Kirstjen Nielsen, chief of the Department of Homeland Security, was speaking at the Aspen Security Forum yesterday when she was asked about Donald Trump’s infamous comments last year after deadly violence in Charlottesville....
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America’s Voice ICYMI: Rewire, “Trump’s Extension of Somalis’ Protected Status ‘Does Not Go Far Enough’’ Re Kirstjen Nielsen: “Is she a careerist, cowed by Trump, willfully blind, evil — or all of the above?” What Kind of Hack is Kirstjen Nielsen? Vox: “Elizabeth Warren confronts Trump nominee for her...
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Customs and Border Protection (CBP), like its agency cousin ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), is a relatively new agency and has only operated since 2003. In that short time, however, CBP has developed a long record of abuses — so many that Politico once called it America’s “most out-of-control...
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America’s Voice Trump Administration Refuses to Re-Designate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia More Damning Details of How Trump Administration is Treating Immigrant Children English Reuters Migrants in U.S. Custody Describe Life in ‘Ice Boxes’ and ‘Dog Pounds’ July 19, 2019 New York Times Government Medical Experts Say Detaining...
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When it comes to immigration, House Republicans haven’t done much this year — they haven’t taken action to defend the status of Dreamers, or passed legislation to protect nearly a million immigrants whose temporary protected status is in danger, or done anything to prevent the tragedy of thousands of...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: New York Times, “Closed for Business: Trump Administration Moves to Shrink Grounds for Asylum” Here’s What You WON’T See in Today’s House GOP Resolution on ICE We Have a Copy of the Unvarnished First Draft of the House GOP Resolution on ICE! English Color Lines Judge...
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Hundreds of people in Washington, D.C. took to the streets on Monday to protest recent discriminatory Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the city. “Not in our neighborhood, not in our city” chants could be heard while signs that read “full rights for all immigrants” could be seen...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: Houston Chronicle, “End of Temporary Protected Status Brings Uncertainty in Lives of Thousands of Houston Residents” La traición del camarada Trump Heads Up! As Trump Tries to Recover from the Surrender in Helsinki, Expect Another Cynical Pivot to Attacking Immigrants English Politico Ryan scraps ‘abolish ICE’...
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