America’s Voice Border Patrol Shoots and Kills Unarmed Woman ICYMI: NBC News, “What now? About to start medical residency, Honduran TPS holder faces uncertainty.” “Divider in Chief” Sets A Clear Course for the GOP in 2018: When All Else Fails, Stoke Fear in Effort to Maintain Political Power ICYMI:...
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Today, a number of House and Senate Democrats joined mothers, caregivers, and advocates outside the U.S. Capitol to speak out against the Trump Administration’s ongoing policy of separating families and children at the border. In conjunction with the event, dozens of women’s organizations submitted a letter to Congressional leaders...
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America’s Voice’s Maribel Hastings and David Torres respond to the recent cases of harassment against Spanish-speakers, one example from a lawyer in a cafe in New York City and another from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at a gas station in Montana. Their joint column was originally published in Spanish by La Opinión. Read the...
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¿Dará el DHS marcha atrás o respaldará la afirmación de la Secretaria de Educación, Betsy DeVos, de que las escuelas pueden decidir si reportan a los estudiantes indocumentados con las autoridades de inmigración? La Secretaria de Educación de Estados Unidos, Betsy DeVos, opinó ayer que las escuelas pueden decidir...
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As chief of DHS, Kirstjen Nielsen is tasked with protecting the U.S. homeland. To hear her tell it, that involves keeping terrorists out, separating mothers from their children, and avoiding saying or doing anything that could imperil the legitimacy or longevity of the Trump Administration. Nielsen, yesterday, became the...
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Tasnim News Agency: “Central Americans Are Fleeing Violence in Higher Numbers: UNHCR” A new assessment from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) calls into question Donald Trump’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than 300,000 legal immigrants living in the United States, including from Honduras, Nicaragua,...
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It is Unconstitutional and a Clear Violation of DHS Policy Yesterday, directly contradicting decades-old Supreme Court case law and federal policy on immigration enforcement around schools, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos argued that individual schools can decide to report students and families to immigration enforcement. U.S. Supreme Court...
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Will DHS walk back or endorse assertion from Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that schools can decide whether to report undocumented students to immigration enforcement? U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos yesterday embraced the notion that individual schools can decide to report students and families to immigration enforcement – an...
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“De nosotros depende cómo será escrita esta historia” Para continuar con su retórica racista y antiinmigrante, la semana pasada en una rueda de prensa el presidente Donald Trump llamó “animales” a los inmigrantes, pretextando que lo hizo solamente en referencia a los pandilleros de la MS-13. Sin embargo, la...
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America’s Voice PHOTOS: Democrats, Advocates Take Stand Against Separation of Families ICYMI: “No one silences the Spanish language” ¿Se está preparando el gobierno de Trump para atacar a los niños en las escuelas? Maybe Nielsen Would Be “Aware” of that Intelligence Report if She Wasn’t Busy Separating Children and...
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