A recording of today’s event is available here Following the Trump administration’s press briefing on the “border crisis and the Democrat loopholes that drive it,” legal and policy experts hosted a call to cut through the administration’s balderdash and various mistruths. Kids in Need of Defense has a new must-read...
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Countdown to TPS Decision Deadline for Yemen and Somalia: 5 Weeks In an article for the Washington Post, Paul Waldman dissects Trump’s endlessly cruel immigration policies, including his termination of Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 legal immigrants from six countries still facing significant hardship at home. Yemen...
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En la película The Truman Show, el protagonista, Truman Burbank, personificado por el actor Jim Carrey, es el único que desconoce que toda su vida, desde su nacimiento, es un reality show de audiencia mundial. Durante la presidencia de Donald J. Trump a veces siento que es a la inversa, que todos...
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) went on Face the Nation over the weekend to talk about the Trump Administration’s ongoing practice of separating families and children at the border, where he proceeded to be a font of inaccuracies and falsehoods that we know he knows are wrong. Here’s what he...
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A new analysis of House Republican candidates’ midterm TV ads, conducted by Kantar Media and published by USA Today, confirms that ugly anti-immigrant fear mongering and divisiveness is the central thrust of the White House and Republicans’ 2018 political strategy. The USA Today article, “Immigration dominating GOP candidates’ TV...
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It is Trump’s Deliberate Policy and a Deliberate Choice that Harms Children in Order to Deter Asylum-Seekers and Unauthorized Immigrants Amy Harmon of the New York Times reported: President Trump over the weekend falsely blamed Democrats for a ‘horrible law’ separating immigrant children from their parents. In fact, his...
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Nationwide, observers are castigating the Trump administration’s inhumane policy of separating children from their parents. As David Leopold, Partner and Chair of Immigration for Ulmer & Berne and former President of American Immigration Lawyers Association, explained in an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, “What we have going on at...
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America’s Voice Fact Check: Legal and Policy Experts Translate the White House’s Immigration Lies ICYMI: Washington Post Calls Out Trump Administration’s “Impossibly Cruel” Immigration Policies, Including Canceling Temporary Protected Status (TPS) El ‘Trump Show’ Marco Rubio, We Know You Know Better About Separation of Migrant Children New Analysis of...
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Cleveland, OH – This week, a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas shot and killed an unarmed woman who had allegedly crossed the border without authorization. Let that sink in. An American law enforcement agent shot an unarmed woman in the head and killed her, simply because he...
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The latest episode of the America’s Voice podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with our own Executive Director, Frank Sharry, who spoke with us about immigration politics in the 2017 Virginia election and the GOP’s hate-filled agenda in 2018. Frank Sharry spoke about the last year in...
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