Dec 13, 2019
Contractors Under Scrutiny as Property Owners Resist Land Takings The construction of a border wall remains the great obsession of the President and the resounding symbol of his reelection effort. In recent weeks it was announced that the President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, would drive the project forward, yet recent...
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“There must be oversight and accountability for a department that is mercilessly killing immigrants in its own facilities and actively blocking medical care” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have once again proven that inside the walls of detention centers, their capacity for cruelty and inhumanity knows no bounds. ...
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Since the release some days ago of the video that revealed the moments of agony that the Guatemalan teenager Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez suffered in total helplessness in a Border Patrol detention center in Texas, last May, the significance of the cruelty of the immigration policy of the present...
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In a story titled, “Trump Reached a New Level of Apocalyptic Fearmongering at His Pennsylvania Rally,” Esquire recaps some of the disturbing details and implications of President Trump’s viciously xenophobic rally held this week in Hershey, PA (with embedded disturbing video clips of the rally). As the piece, authored...
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“The only way you can hold those agencies accountable to Congress and the public is if they are transparent and honest about the reasons why they do things.” In an article for the Financial Times, reporter Madison Darbyshire takes a dive into the legal battles that have brought to...
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Dec 11, 2019
“This is a bill that will grant full rights and responsibilities to hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants and their families” Today, the House approved the Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 5038), a bipartisan bill to put hundreds of thousands of farmworkers on a path to citizenship. The bill...
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Hamed Aleaziz of BuzzFeed shines a light on the continued human rights atrocity happening on our border, exacerbated by the new finding that, “US Border Officials Are Issuing Fake Court Notices To Keep Out Immigrants Who Have Won Asylum.” Hamed details that “at least four people have been sent...
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A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Trump administration from raiding $3.6 billion in military funding in order to build sections of his border wall. Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, issued the following statement in response: This whole stupid border wall debate, which started as a...
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America’s Voice Urges YES Vote The Farm Workforce Modernization Act (H.R. 5038) cleared the House Rules Committee Tuesday and is expected to be debated and voted on in the House Wednesday. America’s Voice urges all Members of Congress to vote for this historic, bipartisan legislation to legalize farmworkers and...
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America’s Voice today praised the introduction of the “New Way Forward Act” in the U.S. House of Representatives, legislation to address and reform a range of injustices caused by current immigration law and policy. The new legislation was introduced today by Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), along with Karen...
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