Washington, DC — While much of the coverage of immigration and border is focused on Capitol Hill and Republicans’ dysfunction, we remain concerned about the real world dangers being mainstreamed by politicians stoking fear and conspiracies to mobilize their voters. As Vice reports, “A Tennessee man, galvanized by anti-immigrant...
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Washington, DC —In an alternate universe, this week on Capitol Hill would have featured House Republicans voting to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas while their Senate counterparts advanced a supplemental package that included border and immigration measures heavily tilted to their hardline priorities. In reality, House Republicans failed to...
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English CNN House vote to impeach Mayorkas fails in stunning defeat for Republican leaders By Annie Grayer February 06, 2024 New York Times Dysfunction Reigns in Congress as G.O.P. Defeats Multiply By Catie Edmondson February 06, 2024 Washington Post In stunning vote, House Republicans fail to impeach Secretary Mayorkas...
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Apparently it’s not enough for House Republicans to continue lurching forward with their baseless, unprecedented impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It appears they want to kick him out of the country he serves as well. Tucked in Republicans’ final report is language calling for...
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Washington, DC — La siguiente es una declaración de Vanessa Cárdenas, directora ejecutiva de America’s Voice, reaccionando a la noticia de que los republicanos del Senado están bloqueando su propia legislación de inmigración: “La actitud de los Republicanos en el Congreso es patética y cínica, ellos no están interesados...
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Washington, DC — In a new opinion essay in TIME, former Anti-Defamation League (ADL) leader Abraham Foxman highlights the dangerous conspiracies central to House Republicans’ drive to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In “The Conspiracy Theories Behind the Drive to Impeach Mayorkas,” Foxman writes: “The immigration debate has historically...
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Borderland communities and advocates were on high alert over the weekend as the hard-right Take Our Border Back events, which garnered national attention following Governor Greg Abbott’s increasing escalation against the federal government, concluded near Eagle Pass, Texas. “Other convoys this week reached the border in Yuma, Ariz., and...
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Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to news that Senate Republicans are blocking their own immigration legislation: “What’s on display from Republicans on Capitol Hill is as pathetic as it is cynical. Republicans are not interested in doing...
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Arizona – This weekend, the Senate released text on a supplemental bill that includes harmful border policies and also has no chance to pass in the House. Arizona immigration advocates respond to the dangers and chaos that this bill would create, especially along the U.S./Mexico border. Laura St. John,...
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English Mother Jones Is This the End of Biden’s “Moral Leadership” on Immigration? By Isabela Dias February 05, 2024 Border Report House GOP members not only ones finding fault with bipartisan effort to end years-long border crisis By Julian Resendiz February 05, 2024 HuffPost UKRAINE SENATE REPUBLICANS BORDER SECURITY...
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