In July 2018, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at HHS, the agency charged with the care and custody of separated children, certified to a federal court that there were 2,654 children that ORR believed were separated by DHS. Yesterday, the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector...
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The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Managing Director of America’s Voice, following a groundbreaking OIG report: The draft memo released yesterday confirms what we’ve suspected all along. The Trump administration devised a comprehensive plan to deliberately harm children and families to deter their parents from seeking asylum...
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Read piece here Austin, TX – In an op-ed published yesterday in the New York Times, Congresswoman Veronica Escobar of El Paso, noted that Donald Trump’s obsession of building a wall has little to do with national security but is more about catering to a base that’s become increasingly...
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America’s Voice Nuevo informe exhibe la crisis creada por Trump In Addition to Thousands More Separated Children, Inspector General Concludes Family Separation Continues Under Dubious Standards and With Little Information New OIG Report Puts Trump’s Self-Made Crisis on Display ICYMI NYT Op-Ed: Congresswoman Veronica Escobar: President Trump’s call for...
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La reciente orden del juez federal Jesse Furman de que no se incluya en el Censo 2020 la pregunta sobre ciudadanía a las personas que habitan Estados Unidos conlleva no solamente un revés para las pretensiones del actual gobierno de facilitarse la tarea de “marcar” a los que no...
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Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter is out with a must-read analysis that deconstructs the current environment around the shutdown fight and Trump’s border wall. She concludes, “what’s keeping the Democratic caucus from splitting in two (or three, or four) is that debate isn’t about immigration anymore. It’s about a...
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Trump: “We’re Getting Crushed” A New York Times story by Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni reports that Trump has been railing internally about how he is losing the public battle over who’s to blame over the shutdown . After watching some of the coverage, he yelled, “We are getting...
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Across the nation, concerned constituents are urging Senate Republicans and President Trump to end this harmful and asinine government shutdown and focus on the pressing issues plaguing our country and communities, instead of a useless and wasteful border wall. Below are a few recent examples of in-state Americans focused...
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America’s Voice Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report: “Trump Is Unifying Democrats Instead of Consolidating His Base” 57% of Voters “Definitely” Plan to Vote Against Trump in 2020 Americans Want Solutions, Not Shutdowns and Walls English Associated Press Who Blinks First Will Matter in Trump, Democrats’ Wall Fight...
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As we head into the fifth week of the longest shutdown in US history, Texan communities are feeling its devastating effects. Low income residents, TSA workers, NASA employees, and small businesses are just some of the casualties of Trump’s irresponsible shutdown. Below are links and excerpts to stories...
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