Washington, DC — Key observers are highlighting the incoherence and cynical politics underlying Donald Trump and House Republicans’ likely opposition to any immigration and border agreement. As Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice stated: “The priority for House Republicans is to first and foremost demonstrate their fealty to...
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American businesses can’t get the workers they need due to out-of-date immigration policy New York, NY — A recent article in the Washington Post underscored how the labor shortage is impacting communities all across the country – from New York to North Dakota. Noting that, “despite growing demand to...
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Washington, DC — Donald Trump opposes any immigration and border agreement. So House Republicans will oppose any immigration and border agreement. That dynamic is both simple and front-and-center today. As NBC’s Sahil Kapur highlighted from Fox News last night: “Laura Ingraham says Trump just told her he opposes the...
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Washington, DC — On Thursday, the House Homeland Security Committee will hold another hearing in their effort to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The House Majority is proceeding without evidence of high crimes, with many observers decrying the sham impeachment effort as driven by politics and failing as a...
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Washington, DC – As Republicans hold Ukraine aid hostage in a bid against asylum and humane immigration processes, a powerful Philadelphia Inquirer editorial, “Biden must make immigration a priority, not give in to GOP demands,” is a must-read, noting in part: “Senate negotiators who are working on a bipartisan...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: There are differing versions about what happened last Friday when a mother and her two children...
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Washington, DC — Tomorrow, House Republicans will continue performative anti-immigrant politics by bringing H. Res. 957 – introduced by Rep. Nathan Moran (R-TX) – for a floor vote. The resolution contains much of the false, right wing anti-immigrant rhetoric used by today’s GOP (most recently in DHS Sec. Mayorkas’...
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Washington, DC — House Republicans keep admitting their views that immigration and the border are a political issue to run on, rather than a policy issue to be resolved. The latest reminder, via Beltway outlet Punchbowl News: “Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team gave the clearest signal yet...
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Washington, DC — Last week, we highlighted the dangerous escalation of Texas’s anti-immigrant push under Gov. Greg Abbott, after the Governor stated, the “‘only thing we’re not doing is shooting people’ crossing the border because ‘the Biden Administration would charge us with murder’” and after Texas National Guard troops...
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New York, NY — A recent article in American Journal News highlighted a new study that emphasized “the positive impact immigrants consistently have on the U.S. economy.” The report found that “some of the biggest contributors to economic growth are refugees and asylum seekers.” Migrants and asylum seekers contributed...
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