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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Washington, DC — Texas under Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) has been relentless in their anti-immigrant focus, both politically and substantively. Texas is challenging federal supremacy over immigration and border control and going to new lengths to assert the Governor’s role in the national GOP spiral towards extremism. Three developments...
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Washington, DC —The three leading Republican presidential contenders are openly calling for the mass- purge of all undocumented immigrants from the country – including the population of long-settled immigrants who are living, contributing and raising families in the U.S.. While we have documented the Republican Party’s ongoing descent into...
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Find the full recording of the call here. WASHINGTON, D.C. – As some Republican lawmakers continue to hold security assistance to Ukraine hostage in exchange for major policy reforms to restrict immigration, immigrant rights advocates and policy experts held a press call today to outline the anticipated harms of...
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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: A demonstration in Italy last Sunday, in which participants made the fascist salute, kicked over a...
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New York, NY — New research highlighted in Newsday found that migrants and asylum seekers are “pumping millions” into Long Island’s economy. The report found that for every thousand migrants that arrive in New York, they contribute $3 million in state and local taxes. As migrants move into more...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “The insistence of some Senators to end legal pathways and parole authority is evidence that they are not interested in solutions that serve our economic needs but rather want more chaos and inhumanity at the border.” Washington, DC — Per ongoing reports that parole authority is an...
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