Late last week in California, a group of 16 Venezuelan and Colombian migrants were dumped outside the door of a Sacramento church, after they were apparently transported to the state on a private flight after being cajoled with promises of work and other assistance. But those promises turned out...
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As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis traipses around the country touting his plan to make the rest of America more like Florida, there’s trouble brewing back home. Backlash over the anti-immigrant law signed by DeSantis has continued on, with thousands across six cities taking part in a “Un Día Sin...
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America’s Voice · La Semana en Inmigración – 6.2.23 ►Si bien el expresidente Donald Trump y el gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, comienzan a lanzarse dardos en su lucha por la nominación presidencial republicana en 2024, tienen algo en común: ambos enfilaron sus cañones esta semana contra su objetivo de ataque...
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NAACP Warns Florida “Is Openly Hostile Toward African Americans”; HRC Says DeSantis Is Weaving “Bigotry, Hate, and Discrimination Into State Law” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ cruel laws targeting marginalized communities continue to receive blowback from national and state organizations. Civil rights groups NAACP and Human Rights Campaign (HRC) have...
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If Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s message at his expected 2024 presidential campaign announcement next week is that he’ll run the nation the way he’s run his state, that should be some major cause for worry. Just look at some of the local and national headlines that have continued on...
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America’s Voice · La Semana en Inmigración – 5.19.23 ►La relativa calma en la frontera tras el fin de la aplicación del Título 42 ha puesto en perspectiva nuevamente la realidad migratoria en la región, donde si bien se disipó la acumulación humana de los últimos días y semanas...
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Like the draconian anti-immigrant laws of the past, DeSantis’ show-me-your-papers law already starting to backfire. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis got tons of press coverage yesterday when reporters cut and pasted his latest anti-immigrant stunt press release about “deploying assets” to help a fellow anti-immigrant governor in Texas. DeSantis, who...
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Chaos for Immigrants, Disruption for the Economy, Privacy Rights of Citizens Taken Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed into law S.B. 1718, one of the ugliest anti-immigrant bills that has made it through any state legislature in our country in recent memory. One of its provisions criminalizes Floridians...
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America’s Voice · La Semana en Inmigración – 5.12.23 ►A las 11:59 del 11 de mayo, el Título 42, que durante tres años permitió la remoción de 2.8 millones de migrantes sin la oportunidad de solicitar asilo, dejó de aplicarse, poniendo a prueba la capacidad de la administración de Joe...
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Florida Republican María Elvira Salazar last year introduced an immigration bill that her office touted as The Dignity Act. Introduced despite having zero chance of passing the chamber due to an anti-amnesty pledge that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has previously made to his base, the bill purported to enact...
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