Washington, DC — Tomorrow is the twelfth anniversary of the popular and successful Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “The solution to providing permanent citizenship and protections for Dreamers is legislation two decades overdue and blocked by congressional Republicans....
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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: At a time when the asylum process is under scrutiny and at the center of political divisions in an...
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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Home is Here coalition held a press conference ahead of the 12th anniversary of DACA to call on President Biden to expand and strengthen relief for DACA recipients, DACA-eligible youth, and their communities before a potentially catastrophic 5th Circuit Court decision this year. 12...
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Washington, DC — As America’s Voice has detailed, a Donald Trump second term on immigration would cause incalculable damage to the nation – economically, morally, and the community and social fabric throughout the country. As we mark the twelfth anniversary of DACA this week, it is important to recognize...
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Washington, DC — Yesterday, at a Las Vegas rally, Donald Trump returned to the same ugly themes he pushed in last week’s first post-conviction rally speech in Arizona. But this time, he spent more time echoing his January 6 rally speech, stressing the need to “stop the steal.” America’s...
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AS BIDEN ANNOUNCES FURTHER RESTRICTIONS, CALLS FOR AFFIRMATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE ACTIONS GROW The long-anticipated Biden executive actions to further restrict access to asylum were announced on Tuesday and came under near universal condemnation, both from the pro-immigrant advocacy movement and the far-right anti-immigration movement. At America’s Voice, we did...
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Washington, DC — In his first post-conviction rally speech, Donald Trump drove home the core theme of his 2024 election campaign – peddling dangerous anti-immigrant lies and conspiracies used to sow doubts about the legitimacy of our democratic process and to justify his pledge for unsparing mass deportations of...
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Washington, DC — Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is the latest formerly pro-immigrant Republican to endorse the full scope of Donald Trump’s mass deportation pledge. During a Fox interview, Senator Graham said: “The only policy change that will work is to have mass deportations. Because people will stop coming when...
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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: Following an executive order issued by President Joe Biden to close the border to asylum seekers after daily unauthorized...
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Washington, DC — Alongside ongoing analysis and attention to the details and implications of yesterday’s executive order focused on the border and asylum seekers, some observers are calling on the Biden administration to now move beyond the focus on the border and asylum to address the full range of...
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