We Need Common Sense and Humane Solutions Yesterday, the Trump administration submitted to Congress an emergency spending request for more than a billion dollars for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), even though DHS received record funding through the regular appropriations process just three months ago. The President’s own...
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In a new piece for the Washington Post, David Nakamura highlights Trump’s portrayal of Latino migrants as criminals and gang members as a central piece to his 2020 reelection campaign theme and part of his Strongman brand. This not only puts him at odds with some inside his administration,...
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Don’t Let Trump Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes The $4.5 billion supplemental budget request tells you a great deal about what Donald Trump is getting wrong about the surge of migrants seeking asylum at our southern border. While the administration is pretending to be concerned about plight of...
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Yesterday, the Washington Post published the latest in a string of investigative stories by the Post and the New York Times detailing the systematic hiring and exploitation of undocumented workers throughout properties operated by the Trump family. This is an issue that America’s Voice has been tracking closely. The...
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Appearance of Selective Enforcement to Protect President In an exchange at today’s subcommittee hearing of the House Appropriations Committee, Acting ICE Director Kevin McAleenan was given the opportunity to say if his agency would give President Trump’s businesses special treatment on immigration and prosecution. His answer was evasive,...
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We Need Common Sense, Effective and Humane Solutions Last night, the President issued a memorandum that purports to be a solution to the increasing number of families seeking asylum at our southern border by imposing fees on asylum seekers, ending work permits for asylum seekers to support themselves while...
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Greg Sargent’s newest column for the Washington Post puts Trump’s lies on full display as he tries to appeal to voters by touting a policy that isn’t in place. In Wisconsin, Trump was feeding voters a diet of lies and cruelty to get their applause at a rally. The...
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In his column late Monday, The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent outlines Trump’s failures, from sweeping losses in the 2018 midterm elections following vicious anti-immigrant campaigns, to the self-inflicted chaos at our southern border, and the consequences of Trump’s focus on riling up his base as we inch closer to...
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More Failure On Its Way At The Border The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the new restrictions on asylum seekers proposed by the Trump Administration. New restrictions on asylum encapsulate the vicious cruelty, failed policy, and cynical political motivations that...
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A story today in The Intercept reveals that a security contractor for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took the time to meticulously catalog a series of protests against the President’s family separation policy and report those protests preemptively to all DHS staffers and law enforcement across the country....
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