Washington, DC — While Republican Party elected officials and candidates are increasingly embracing and mainstreaming the use of dangerous “invasion” and “replacement” immigration conspiracies, even long established anti-immigrant organizations and leaders are trying to do damage control and spin away their past and ongoing usage of such rhetoric, as...
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Read the letter HERE Washington, DC — A new letter signed by more than 150 organizations calls on elected leaders to “collectively and forcefully denounce the use of dehumanizing and demagogic rhetoric about immigrants,” noting that “language, such as saying that undocumented immigrants are an infestation, animals, or are...
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Since Jan. ‘23, 54 Republican members of Congress have used language associated with the “replacement” theory to call for Secretary Mayorkas’ impeachment Washington, DC — Today, as the sham impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas moves to the Senate floor, it is important to step back and take stock...
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Even Fox News Doesn’t Buy the Anti-Semitic Bill of Goods that the Heritage Foundation and MTG are pushing Washington, DC — Last night, the Heritage Foundation, one of the leading anti-immigrant groups and the hard-liners behind the extremist Project 2025, began tweeting “breaking” and “critical” alerts about an obviously...
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CIS’ Jessica Vaughan Distanced Herself From GOP’s Dangerous ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric and Said She’s Never Used Conspiratorial Rhetoric. But She Lied To a Member of Congress, Because Her Tweets Say Otherwise During a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing this week, GOP witness Jessica Vaughan claimed that she was unaware of...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Promoting the lie that elections are rigged and bolstering the false grievance that the votes of ‘real Americans’ are being discounted is fodder for challenging any election and stoking political violence.” Washington, DC — Tomorrow, Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will hold a joint...
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During an appearance on Fox News, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) claimed that indicted former President Donald Trump “has not ever said anything xenophobic or racist about immigrants.” That would be news to anyone that’s paid attention to Trump’s xenophobic or racist remarks since descending the escalators of Trump...
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Washington, DC — The contrast between the real story of immigrants and America and Donald Trump and his allies’ anti-immigrant vision has been on stark display these past days, brought into vivid relief especially in contrasting the commentary and reflections about the six immigrant workers who died in Baltimore...
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Washington, DC — A new op-ed from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, on the Univision website, underscores the dangers of Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric towards immigrants. Titled, “How Trump’s relentless anti-immigrant focus is tied to his threats to democracy,” excerpts are copied below, and the full piece...
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Donald Trump kicked off his 2016 presidential campaign by descending the escalators of Trump Tower and calling Mexicans criminals and “rapists.” But as he has done throughout the past decade, Trump has found new lows to dehumanize communities. During a campaign stop in Ohio in mid-March in support of...
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