America’s Voice Trump Push for Dramatically Expanded Deportation Force Runs into Scandal and Opposition Rep. Grijalva, Immigrants, Legal Experts, and Immigration and Faith Leaders Outline Next Steps in Fight to Protect DACA Momentum Continues in Support of Dreamers: Former Acting ICE Director Sandweg, Ed Boards in FL and SC...
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US Customs and Border Protection has been called America’s most corrupt and out-of-control law enforcement agency, with a reputation for regularly overstepping the bounds of their authority, using excessive force, and detaining people under inhumane conditions. Recent headlines about CBP abuses have involved “rape tables”, a teenage boy dying after...
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The White House Press Briefing featured a surprise guest today – senior aide Stephen Miller, whom along with Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions is in charge of pushing policies that will make America white again. Miller was there to promote the RAISE Act, the bill introduced by Sens. Tom...
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At the Arizona Republic this week is an editorial calling on the state to reinstate in-state tuition for immigrant students, by overturning a 2006 ballot measure that withheld the lower rate for Dreamers. “These are our children,” the editorial states, “these are Arizona’s kids.” In June, an appeals court...
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America’s Voice Why Are White Nationalists So Supportive of the Cotton/Perdue “Legal” Immigration Bill? ICE Public Relations: We’re Focused on “Threats to Public Safety” ICYMI: Dara Lind at Vox: “What John Kelly’s final ICE raid tells us about Trump’s new chief of staff” ICYMI: Yglesias of Vox: “The case for...
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Kris Kobach is one of the most influential people you’d probably never heard of, especially on immigration. On paper, he’s the Kansas Secretary of State, contender for the 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election, and Vice Chair of Donald Trump’s Commission on Election “Integrity”. But behind the scenes, he’s been the...
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Today, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) led 156 members of Congress in sending a letter to Donald Trump asking him to protect Dreamers from deportation by preserving DACA, the program which allows immigrant youth to legally live and work in the United States. The letter also asks the Administration...
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It’s been nearly two weeks since Jesus Lara was taken away from his family in Willard, Ohio. The words of support, offers of prayers, and donations are helping the family cope in this rocky time, but they are grieving. Many news articles have been written about this fund...
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America’s Voice Frank Sharry Reacts to ICE Apprehensions Announced Today Meet the Anti-DACA Ringleaders Inside the Administration: Will Trump Bow to Them Or Make His Own Decision? Our Own Government is Targeting High School Soccer Stars For Deportation Another Airport Good-Bye, Another Heartless Deportation Jesus Has Been Deported —...
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Arizona’s deposed Sheriff Joe Arpaio, once self-dubbed “America’s Toughest Sheriff”, was found guilty of criminal contempt today, capping off some ten years of legal efforts against Arpaio. The sheriff known for tent cities, forcing inmates to wear pink underwear, a fervently pugilistic anti-immigrant stance, and a belief that he...
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