The fight around birthright citizenship was at the Supreme Court, where justices on Wednesday heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the case around the Trump administration’s blatantly un-American effort to terminate this constitutional right – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – through an executive order. Inside...
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Last week, Senate Democrats voted to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard – but refused to write a blank check for ICE and Border Patrol without reforms. House Republicans rejected that bipartisan deal, tied DHS funding to an anti-voter bill, and headed home for a two-week recess. Meanwhile,...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: For the Trump administration, it doesn’t matter that more than 8 million people rejected its extremist policies—including on immigration—at...
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This is a guest post by David Leopold, America’s Voice Legal Advisor and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The debate over birthright citizenship is no longer a theoretical exercise confined to campaign trail rhetoric. What was once a fringe proposal championed by restrictionists in Congress has...
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Para el gobierno de Donald Trump nada importa que más de 8 millones de personas repudiaron sus políticas extremistas, incluyendo en inmigración, en las manifestaciones ‘No Kings’ (No Reyes) del pasado sábado. ¿Su próximo paso? Defender la constitucionalidad de su orden ejecutiva para negar la ciudadanía por derecho de...
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Washington, DC — Today, ahead of the Supreme Court’s landmark hearing on birthright citizenship, a new guest post on the America’s Voice Substack by America’s Voice legal advisor David Leopold delivers a must-read analysis and preview of the arguments and implications (find on Substack here and excerpted below). Vanessa...
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