Washington, DC — Last week, we highlighted the dangerous escalation of Texas’s anti-immigrant push under Gov. Greg Abbott, after the Governor stated, the “‘only thing we’re not doing is shooting people’ crossing the border because ‘the Biden Administration would charge us with murder’” and after Texas National Guard troops...
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La crueldad contra los migrantes que ha imperado en los últimos tiempos en la frontera de Texas ha rebasado límites con la reciente muerte de una madre y sus dos hijos en el Río Grande, debido a políticas incomprensibes e inhumanas impuestas unilateralmente por el gobernador Greg Abbott. Mientras...
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Leaders and advocates in Texas and across the country are blasting Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s apparent lament that the state can’t shoot migrants on sight at the border. Yes, he really said that. In shocking remarks initially reported by Heartland Signal, Abbott complained to right-wing activist and former...
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Washington, DC — Texas under Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) has been relentless in their anti-immigrant focus, both politically and substantively. Texas is challenging federal supremacy over immigration and border control and going to new lengths to assert the Governor’s role in the national GOP spiral towards extremism. Three developments...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed new “show me your papers” anti-immigrant legislation that empowers every officer of the law to question the citizenship of any Texas resident and detain them. The new measure continues the state’s crackdown on the civil rights and freedoms of residents,...
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The executive committee of the Republican Party of Texas this month voted down a resolution that would have banned members from associating with antisemites, Holocaust deniers, and Nazi sympathizers – then attempted to hide a record of the vote, The Texas Tribune reports. “In at-times tense debate on Saturday,...
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Civil rights organizations said in a complaint last summer that at least 30 people, including a number of bystanders, had been killed as a result of often unnecessary high-speed chases stemming from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s multi-billion dollar Operation Lone Star (OLS) scheme. In the year since, that number...
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Attacking and exploiting immigrants for political gain is a unifying issue for Republicans and that was on full display at one of their “favorite” photo op sites this past weekend in Texas. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott endorsed former President Donald Trump for reelection during a joint appearance in the...
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Nov 17, 2023
America’s Voice · La Semana En Inmigración – 11.17.23 Artículo del New York Times detallando los extremistas planes migratorios de Donald Trump si vuelve a la Casa Blanca genera indignación y alarma entre defensores de los inmigrantes y políticos demócratas En Texas, activistas y congresistas denuncian los proyectos SB...
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The El Paso City Council this week unanimously approved a community identification card program helping El Paso residents, including immigrants and other vulnerable communities, that are unable to access a government-issued license or ID. The historic pilot program was approved by an 8-0 vote and is estimated to provide...
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