The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, managing director of America’s Voice, regarding the McConnell-Trump-Miller Senate immigration proposal: President Trump, aided and abetted by Mitch McConnell and Stephen Miller, is holding the country and 800,000 federal workers and their families hostage. Rather than wasting time with unreasonable, one... Continue »
In a new piece for The Daily Beast, Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, responds to President Trump’s speech on Saturday. He urges Democrats to reject Trump’s latest proposal in which he offers to “trade a million immigrants he took hostage early in his presidency for a deal... Continue »
The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, managing director of America’s Voice, regarding President Trump’s non-starter immigration proposal: The President needs to act immediately to reopen the government. Families across the country are suffering because of the President’s temper tantrum over an unnecessary wall. Today’s proposal is neither... Continue »
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Steve King and Donald Trump The following is a reflection from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice: As the damaging and absurd government shutdown continues with no end in sight, it’s time to take stock of its central premise. Is... Continue »
It seems increasingly likely that President Trump will declare “a national emergency” as a pretext to seize military funding for his border wall. The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice in response. There is a national emergency and it is called the presidency... Continue »
If your head hurts and the government shutdown over a border wall strikes you as the theatre of the absurd, you are not alone. As much as Trump and his enablers put on straight faces and make serious-sounding arguments, this entire exercise has to do with Trump’s political brand,... Continue »
12 days and counting, and it seems that the American people realize the absurdity of Trump’s border wall fight. A late December Reuters/Ipsos poll of 2,440 adults nationwide makes clear that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to shutting down the government over the unpopular border wall and hold President Trump... Continue »
Shutdown over Border Wall as Unnecessary and Offensive as the Wall Proposal Itself With Trump and the GOP blowing up a bipartisan spending bill that would have funded the government, we are now headed into a shutdown. The following is a statement by Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s... Continue »
“If the GOP is so worked up about border security, they should step in and protect the American people from a president at the border of insanity.” The Trump/Republican plan to shut down the government over an unpopular, ineffective and insulting border wall is a sad reflection of the... Continue »
After historic drubbing in midterms, the GOP just doesn’t get it After right wing media criticized President Trump this morning, House Republicans blew up a bipartisan Continuing Resolution that would have kept the federal government open. Instead, the House GOP passed a measure along party lines with $5 billion... Continue »