Mar 15, 2021
New Reports Show As GOP Doubles Down on Losing Xenophobia, Democrats Are in Step with Public Opinion Ahead of “Dream & Promise” Votes This Week Ahead of this week’s expected House votes on the “American Dream and Promise Act (HR 6),” America’s Voice is releasing two short reports on...
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is leading a delegation of Republicans to the border today. The goals: to distract attention from the GOP’s failure to support the very popular American Rescue Plan; to desperately flog an uptick at the border of non-white unaccompanied minors as an existential threat to...
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During the week of March 15, the United States House of Representatives will vote on H.R. 6, the Dream and Promise Act. The legislation would create a path to citizenship for over 3 million young immigrants as well as TPS holders. The measure passed in 2019 by a vote...
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Democrats have introduced a series of immigration bills to create a pathway to legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants in an attempt to fix our decades-old broken system. Votes in the House of Representatives are expected during the week of March 15, 2021, on the American Dream and...
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La decisión del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) de activar a la Agencia Federal para el Manejo de Emergencias (FEMA) debería interpretarse como un acto responsable de parte de la administración Biden para atender de manera ordenada, pero sobre todo humanitaria, el aumento en el arribo de menores migrantes...
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America’s Voice Immigration Wedge Has Lost Its Edge Kevin McCarthy‘s Border Trip Agenda: Distract from COVID Package; Demonize Vulnerable Kids; Undermine Support for Popular Immigration Measures to be Voted on Thursday Will Republicans Go Down on the Sinking Ship Named Xenophobia? Solutions > Divisions: A Majority of Americans...
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Today the Biden Administration announced it is designating Burma for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The following is a statement from Douglas Rivlin, Director of Communications for America’s Voice, in reaction to designation: America’s Voice congratulates all of the hard-working advocates and organizations who fought for this moment and we...
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You can listen to a recording of the call here Earlier today, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), advocates, public opinion researchers and a DACA recipient gathered on a call to discuss the upcoming votes next week in the House on legislative proposals to create pathways to citizenship for undocumented...
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President Biden and Democrats are going big, delivering results, and changing lives. Meanwhile, Republicans are stoking fear and furiously trying to distract from the Democrats’ successes and to scuttle progress by deploying strategic racism. As Biden signs the American Rescue Plan COVID-19 package into law and charts an ambitious...
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A must-read Eugene Robinson column in the Washington Post, titled “Biden needs to do the right thing for migrants, so the GOP can’t lie about them” calls out the transparent Republican effort to stoke fear about the border crisis and dehumanize vulnerable kids. He urges the Biden administration to...
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