Washington, DC – On Wednesday, the House Majority is calling Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, before the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing has little to do with congressional oversight. Instead, it is a stage for the latest in a long series of Republican pre-baked political...
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Washington, DC – A new op-ed published by America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas at Common Dreams, titled “The Dehumanizing Cruelty at the Texas Border Is Part of a Larger GOP Pattern,” notes that, “While investigations should proceed to ensure accountability for those responsible for the horrors near the...
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English Common Dreams The Dehumanizing Cruelty at the Texas Border Is Part of a Larger GOP Pattern By Vanessa Cárdenas July 25, 2023 Law360 Top Immigration Policy Developments In 2023: Midyear Review By https://www.law360.com/immigration/articles/1703120?nl_pk=dea74252-ba1e-4d32-9491-909d4942ab27&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=immigration&utm_content=2023-07-25&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0# July 24, 2023 Truthout Abbott Says He’ll Defy Fed Order to Remove Barbed Wire Barriers...
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Farmworkers and advocates in Florida are mourning the loss of Efrain López García, a Homestead farmworker who died while laboring in extreme heat earlier this month. López García was harvesting a tropical fruit called longan when he told his coworkers that he wasn’t feeling well. “The workers weren’t sure...
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Washington, DC – Important pushback and denunciation continues after last week’s revelations of horrific and dehumanizing cruelty by Texas troopers against vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director at America’s Voice: “The dehumanizing and wasteful immigration efforts of Gov. Greg Abbott and too many of...
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English The Atlantic The GOP’s Lurch Toward Extremism Comes for the Border By Ronald Brownstein July 22, 2023 Associated Press Texas is using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border By Valerie Gonzalez and Acacia Coronado July 24, 2023 The Wall Street Journal Texas...
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Atarse a sus hijos para evitar que traficantes de humanos los secuestren es una de las modalidades de protección que están adoptando los solicitantes de asilo, mientras esperan eternidades en territorio mexicano. Ahí, siguen enfrentando todo tipo de vicisitudes que los hacen aún más vulnerables, tal como ocurre con...
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S.B.1718, Passed By State Republicans To Aid Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ 2024 Presidential Aspirations, Targets Families And Workers Integral To Florida’s Economy A coalition of immigrant and civil rights organizations have launched a federal lawsuit against Florida’s anti-immigrant S.B. 1718 law, suing Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and other...
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TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT’S BORDER CRUELTY HITS NEW LOW The extreme cruelty by Texas authorities at the border came to light this week in a Houston Chronicle story detailing a horrendous whistleblower account of moms and children caught in barbed wire, kids being pushed back into the Rio Grande, and migrants...
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Washington, DC – A new column by Ron Brownstein in The Atlantic focuses on the horrific details regarding Texas state troopers’ treatment of vulnerable children and pregnant women and the larger significance and pattern of Republican controlled states like Texas trying to seize immigration policymaking from the federal government....
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