Every day brings more reminders about the centrality and disturbing nature of President Trump’s anti-immigrant worldview. As the Washington Post reports: The night before Trump delivered his first speech to Congress in February 2017, he huddled with Jared Kushner and Miller in the Oval Office to talk immigration …... Continue »
In an El Paso Times op-ed, Mario Carrillo, America’s Voice Texas Director, reveals the source of inspiration for the recent cases of racism and harassment against Spanish-speaking immigrants: President Donald J. Trump. Read excerpts from Mario Carrillo’s op-ed below and find the entire piece here: …Imagine life for immigrants,... Continue »
Customs and Border Protection Must Be Held Accountable for Excessive Use of Force, Abuse and Corruption Yesterday, Univision reported that a Border Patrol agent fatally shot an unarmed undocumented woman in the head, according to a video of the incident by a bystander. In the video: a woman yells... Continue »
Lives In Limbo Waiting For Congress To Act Following Trump’s Termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 300k+ Legal Immigrants  Countdown to TPS Decision Deadline for Yemen and Somalia: 6 Weeks In the 20 days since the Trump Administration ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal immigrants... Continue »
Ugly Strategy Trumpeted by Stephen Miller; Leaves No Room for So-called GOP Moderates Yesterday, President Donald Trump’s roundtable on Long Island was the latest evidence of the White House commitment to divide the country in hopes of maintaining political power. In a new interview with Breitbart News, White House advisor... Continue »
In Juan Escalante’s latest column for HuffPost, he breaks down the most recent examples of harassment and xenophobia Spanish speakers must endure at the hand of  President Donald Trump’s “unshackled” deportation force and loyalists. Read excerpts from Juan’s latest HuffPost column below and find the full piece here: Social media blazed... Continue »
America’s Voice’s Maribel Hastings and David Torres respond to the recent cases of harassment against Spanish-speakers, one example from a lawyer in a cafe in New York City and another from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at a gas station in Montana. Their joint column was originally published in Spanish by La Opinión. Read the... Continue »
Tasnim News Agency: “Central Americans Are Fleeing Violence in Higher Numbers: UNHCR” A new assessment from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) calls into question Donald Trump’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal immigrants living in the United States, including from Honduras, Nicaragua,... Continue »
It is Unconstitutional and a Clear Violation of DHS Policy Yesterday, directly contradicting decades-old Supreme Court case law and federal policy on immigration enforcement around schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos argued that individual schools can decide to report students and families to immigration enforcement. U.S. Supreme Court... Continue »
Will DHS walk back or endorse assertion from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that schools can decide whether to report undocumented students to immigration enforcement? U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos yesterday embraced the notion that individual schools can decide to report students and families to immigration enforcement – an... Continue »