23 de octubre de 2017
Si la crisis económica antes del huracán “María” había hecho que miles de puertorriqueños cruzaran el charco rumbo a Estados Unidos, el devastador meteoro acabó de convencerlos de que llegó la hora de partir. Tras “María” he ido varias veces al aeropuerto a despedir familiares, a recibir familiares y...
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23 de octubre de 2017
Immigration Reform News October 23, 2017 / Qué Pasa En Inmigración
America’s Voice ICYMI: NYT Op-Ed: Texas Pulls Up the Welcome Mat ICE Director Homan’s Cynical Anti-Immigrant Ploy Amid Northern California Wildfires ICYMI: Media Reports Highlight Imminent Deadlines, Impacts If Temporary Protected Status (TPS) Revoked El éxodo boricua English KSAT ‘Clean Dream Act’ has support of former San Antonio mayor...
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20 de octubre de 2017
This week’s edition of the America’s Voice podcast, “180 Days,” is now available. The weekly podcast will run over the next six months as we approach the March 6, 2018 deadline for DACA. We cover the fight to protect Dreamers and pass the Dream Act – and other immigration...
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The inhumanity of Trump’s deportation machine has been on display this week in three cases where the federal government has shown a callous indifference to immigrants’ lives, whether they are 17-year-old minors or parents who have lived in the US for decades and have deep ties. 17-year-old asylum seeker...
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PHOENIX, AZ – Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) joined Arizona immigrant youth to discuss how the repeal of DACA will affect immigrant youth and their families and to commit to pushing policies locally and nationally to protect the 800,000 Dreamers from deportation. In Rep. Gallego’s district, there are 10,000 DACA-recipients and...
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NEW CAP Report Shows GDP Loss Could Be $164 Billion State-by-State Breakdown Here 11/6/17 Decision deadline for 59,550 Hondurans and Nicaraguans: 17 DAYS 11/23/17 Decision deadline for 50,000 Haitians: 34 DAYS 01/08/18 Decision deadline for 195,000 Salvadorans: 80 DAYS A recording of today’s press call is available here. In a press call this morning, economic, legal, and policy...
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For a recording of today’s call, click here. San Antonio, TX – On a press call today, Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro joined local DACA recipients Oscar Hernandez and Damaris Gonzalez, and Mario Carrillo, Director of America’s Voice Texas, to discuss why a legislative solution for Dreamers is so...
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The Washington Post’s Jesse Dougherty has a new must-read on the tight rope that Dreamer and high school volleyball player Nicolle Uria is walking. Like all Dreamers, Nicolle grew up American – her family emigrated from Bolivia when she was just one year old. She didn’t learn she was undocumented until she was a...
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20 de octubre de 2017
Immigration Reform News October 20, 2017 / Qué Pasa En Inmigración
America’s Voice ICYMI: “‘All she ever knew was America’: This high school athlete had a plan. Then DACA was rescinded.” Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro Joins Local Leaders and Dreamers to Call on Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Will Hurd to Pass a Clean Dream Act...
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20 de octubre de 2017
Students staged a walkout on Monday after a cellphone video appeared to show a New Jersey high school English teacher reprimanding three students for speaking Spanish and telling them to speak “American.” The teacher told the students that U.S. soldiers are “not fighting for your right to speak Spanish...
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