America’s Voice ICYMI: Ohio churches show compassion and courage, provide sanctuary for moms and dads in deportation With Two Weeks Left Before Election Day in Virginia, CASA in Action Launches Spanish Radio Ads to Turnout the Latino and Immigrant Vote ICYMI: “A Teacher, Therapist, and Pastor: How DACA Recipients...
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Northern California is recovering from devastating wildfires. Why is Thomas Homan interjecting a nonsense political agenda? This month, wildfires in the Napa and Sonoma regions of northern California killed dozens and destroyed thousands of homes. Shortly after, right-wing news sites like Breitbart and Infowars (in their capacity as right-wing,...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: NYT Op-Ed: Texas Pulls Up the Welcome Mat ICE Director Homan’s Cynical Anti-Immigrant Ploy Amid Northern California Wildfires ICYMI: Media Reports Highlight Imminent Deadlines, Impacts If Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Revoked El éxodo boricua English KSAT ‘Clean Dream Act’ has support of former San Antonio mayor...
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This week’s edition of the America’s Voice podcast, “180 Days,” is now available. The weekly podcast will run over the next six months as we approach the March 6, 2018 deadline for DACA. We cover the fight to protect Dreamers and pass the Dream Act – and other immigration...
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The inhumanity of Trump’s deportation machine has been on display this week in three cases where the federal government has shown a callous indifference to immigrants’ lives, whether they are 17-year-old minors or parents who have lived in the US for decades and have deep ties. 17-year-old asylum seeker...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: “‘All she ever knew was America’: This high school athlete had a plan. Then DACA was rescinded.” Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro Joins Local Leaders and Dreamers to Call on Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Will Hurd to Pass a Clean Dream Act...
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For the anti-immigrant hardliners in the Trump Administration, like Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions, DACA posed something of a problem. They had ridden the Trump train specifically to curb immigration and end programs like DACA, but Donald Trump had also claimed to have sympathy for Dreamers and said he...
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America’s Voice Reminder: Trump Killed DACA; Dreamers Are Already Losing Their Status; Congress Needs to Act Now Did Jeff Sessions Collude With Ken Paxton to End DACA Behind Trump’s Back? Sessions Won’t Say ICYMI: Government of Haiti Makes Formal Request for 18-month Extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) NEW:...
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This week, the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration and the Center for American Progress released new data on how much the dismantling of DACA would cost America, Congressional district by Congressional district. Previous reports have shown that doing away with DACA wouldn’t make any sense, as...
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Last week, Donald Trump announced the nomination of Kirstjen Nielsen, currently deputy to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, to be the next Secretary of Homeland Security. Nielsen was also deputy to Kelly when he was chief of DHS, leading us to wonder if Nielsen would be a...
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