“Cuando México envía a su gente, no está enviando a los mejores… Traen drogas. Traen delincuencia. Son violadores. Y algunos, asumo, son buenas personas”: Donald Trump, durante el discurso en que anunció su campaña presidencial en junio de 2015 “¿Creen que el país nos está dando a su mejor gente?...
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27 de diciembre de 2017
This year marked the beginning of the Trump presidency, and while the new Administration spent much of the year stymied by legislative priorities, Donald Trump has been able to remake the US immigration system in alarming and destructive ways. In his first year alone, between mass deporting immigrant mothers...
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22 de diciembre de 2017
Episode 15 of Our Podcast, “Continuing Resolution”, is Available Now
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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Texas Members of Congress will be on notice in January Austin, TX – Last night, Congress approved a three-week continuing resolution that will keep the government open until January 19, 2018 without including legislation to protect Dreamers. Three Texan Republicans, Will Hurd (TX-23), Bill Flores (TX-17), and Joe Barton (TX-06), all...
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22 de diciembre de 2017
Juan Escalante: “The fight for our lives and futures in this country is far from over” Frank Sharry: “The fight moves to January and we are optimistic that victory is within reach” Yesterday, Congress enacted a stopgap measure to continue federal government funding through January 19 of next year. This continuing resolution failed...
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“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best . . . They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” – Donald Trump, during speech announcing presidential campaign in June 2015 “You think the country is giving us their best people? No ....
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22 de diciembre de 2017
ICYMI: “Rubashkin’s Sentence Commutation is ‘Win for Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Worker Forces’”
A new blog post from Van Le, Digital Director of America’s Voice Education Fund, runs through an important immigration-related development that many have missed: President Trump’s commutation of a sentence for serial immigrant-abuser Sholom Rubashkin, of Agriprocessors infamy. Le writes: Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the...
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22 de diciembre de 2017
More than 41,000 people – our family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues – have been targets of increased immigration enforcement by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2017, deportation arrests increased 37.6 percent over the same period in 2016. In his first year, Trump has overhauled immigration enforcement...
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22 de diciembre de 2017
Immigration Reform News December 22, 2017 / Qué Pasa En Inmigración
America’s Voice A Year of Trump on Immigration: The Radical Vision, Cruel Implementation, and Nationwide Resistance of the Past Year We Believe that We Will Win The Faces of Deportation in 2017 ICYMI: “Rubashkin’s Sentence Commutation is ‘Win for Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Worker Forces’” Texas Reps. Hurd, Barton, and Flores:...
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21 de diciembre de 2017
Rubashkin’s Sentence Commutation is “Win for Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Worker Forces”
Last night, Donald Trump commuted the prison sentence of Sholom Rubashkin, the former owner of Agriprocessors, the Postville, Iowa kosher meatpacking plant that was the site of a huge immigration raid in 2008. Rubashkin, after the raid, was charged for immigration-related offenses but ultimately went to prison for bank...
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