America’s Voice   Powerful Reminders of Pandemic’s Toll on Immigrant Workers – and Why Taxpaying Families Must Be Included in Next Round of Relief As Workers Risk Their Lives to Keep Us Fed, Senate Republicans Hold Hearing to Focus on Shielding Companies from the Risk of Legal Liability English... Continue »
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Maribel Hastings and David Torres If one thing was obvious by the end of last week, it’s that COVID-19 does not discriminate, although the officials charged with confronting the pandemic do. It is an almost natural practice among those who have the power and, because of this fact, think... Continue »
If you Pay Taxes, You Should Be Treated Like All Other Taxpayers As Congress debates the contents of the next pandemic relief package, an editorial and a column in the Washington Post highlight why Trump and congressional Republicans’ punitive decision to exclude mixed immigration status families from the previous... Continue »
Maribel Hastings y David Torres Si algo quedó demostrado a fines de la semana pasada es que el Covid-19 no discrimina, aunque los funcionarios encargados de hacer frente a la pandemia sí lo hagan. Es una práctica casi natural de quien tiene el poder y que, por ese hecho,... Continue »
America’s Voice   Two Viruses in the White House: Xenophobia and Now COVID-19 Why the Next Federal Relief Package Must Address Mixed Status Immigrant Families Dos virus en la Casa Blanca: xenofobia y ahora Covid-19 English YubaNet Frank Sharry: As Trump Fails to Protect the Nation and Unite its... Continue »
Just when there was no reason to remember the existence of an inoperative wall on the southern border, since the biggest worry in this precise moment is and must be the containment of the lethal coronavirus pandemic, one of the most insufferable and recurring topics of conversation from today’s... Continue »
The U.S. economy is tanking. Tens of thousands of Americans have lost their lives. President Trump has no plan and (while not wearing a mask) is washing his hands of his responsibility to lead the nation through the worst crisis of our lifetime. His reelection prospects are threatened. So,... Continue »
Cuando nadie tenía por qué recordar la existencia de un inoperante muro en la frontera sur, dado que la mayor preocupación en este preciso momento es y debe ser la contención de la letal pandemia de coronavirus, ha surgido de nuevo uno de los temas más insufriblemente recurrentes del... Continue »
Under the Trump administration, underfunded and inhumane ICE detention facilities have faced well-earned waves of criticism as reports have emerged indicating a lack of basic medical necessities and an ongoing failure to provide personal hygiene items like soap or toothpaste. Despite the pandemic leading to a renewed outcry from... Continue »
English Reuters U.S. Top Court Tosses Ruling Against Illegal Immigration Encouragement Law May 07, 2020 Politico ‘We’re going to fill it’: Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy By BURGESS EVERETT May 07, 2020 Associated Press Official: Strict US Border Policy May Remain as Virus Eases May 07, 2020... Continue »