Mario Carrillo: Texas GOP is the “tip of the spear” of broader Republican descent on immigration and “a danger to public safety for all Texans, a threat to core values we cherish, and a growing laughingstock outside their right wing bubble.” Washington, DC – The relentless anti-immigrant zealotry of...
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Opinion Pieces by Andrea Flores and Andrew Selee Underscore Success and Importance of Safe, Fair, Orderly Migration Pathways Washington, DC – Two leading experts have new and prominent opinion essays that highlight the importance of the Biden Administration’s safe, fair and orderly migration pathways, especially the parole programs and...
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The New Yorker Magazine and Congressional Delegation Document the Descent of the GOP Washington, DC – Yesterday, several Members of Congress traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas as part of a congressional delegation to explore the dehumanizing dangers inflicted by Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. The images and videos...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: The death of the young Honduran man, Norlan Bayardo Herrera, just twenty years old, in the...
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Washington, DC – Republicans continue to tell one of their favorite nativist lies, falsely blaming immigrants and asylum seekers for the very real scourge of fentanyl. There is an urgent need to address the nation’s fentanyl crisis, but falsely conflating the issue as an immigration one distracts from solutions...
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Escalating Rhetoric will lead to Escalating Violence Washington, DC – In his relentless effort to define himself as an anti-immigrant hardliner for GOP primary audiences, Ron DeSantis hasn’t concerned himself with the consequences of his nativist words and policies. This includes the ongoing costs and harms from his signature...
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Washington, DC – The relentless anti-immigrant focus of both Governor Ron DeSantis in Florida and Governor Greg Abbott in Texas has led to both states enacting harmful anti-immigrant laws and policies that are both scapegoating and harming immigrants, both those arriving and those settled in the states. But what...
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Washington, DC – America’s Voice (AV) and America’s Voice Education Fund (AVEF) announced two new hires coming on in senior positions. Joseph Tiang-Lau Liu started in late July as the Managing Director of the two sister organizations and Kenneth A. Sandoval joined Aug. 7 as Senior Advisor to the...
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Vanessa Cárdenas Reacts to Deaths in Rio Grande Near Gov. Greg Abbott’s Deployed Buoys Washington, DC – The ongoing anti-immigrant focus of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his Operation Lone Star have been recently condemned for reinstituting family separations, one of the darkest chapters in recent American history; for...
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Washington, DC – The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Texas has started to separate families at the border over the past month: “Since the early days of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative, state troopers arresting migrants along the Rio Grande have been told to keep families together and...
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