Stories Leo Garcia Venegas, a U.S. citizen was detained twice at his workplace at a construction site in Alabama. Despite showing his Alabama-issued REAL ID driver’s license, an identification card only given to U.S. citizens and legal residents, the immigration agents “told him the ID card was fake”. Venegas...
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Washington, DC — Despite a Trump-appointed federal judge blocking the administration’s attempt to deploy out-of-state National Guard troops to Oregon, the Trump administration continues to escalate its efforts and threats to deploy American troops to U.S. cities using the guise of immigration. Meanwhile, as Judd Legum writes in his...
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Washington, DC —The federal government is officially shut down, but this administration’s mass deportation crusade proceeds and ICE is continuing to advance its dangerous combination of cruelty and impunity. In particular, as more details emerge from a raid on a South Side Chicago apartment building earlier this week, it’s...
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Washington, DC —This administration and their allies in and out of Congress are continuing their ‘big and brazen’ lie about immigrants amid the government shutdown – a lie that doubles as a revealing reminder about their larger strategy. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “Repeating a...
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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: With its well-oiled and well-funded deportation machine, the administration appears to have little concern for the government shutdown caused...
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Washington, DC —The federal government is officially shut down, but this administration’s effort to scapegoat immigrants and proceed with their mass deportation crusade continues – despite the real facts and the demonstrated harm to the nation. As Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, noted: “Their priorities are as...
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Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “The Trump Administration and their allies in Congress are going back to their repulsive yet tried-and-true tactic of scapegoating immigrants to distract from the fact that their policies are taking away Americans’ healthcare...
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Washington, DC — Last week, America’s Voice highlighted how this administration’s mass deportation obsession harms public safety — including diverting money and manpower away from public safety threats and disaster preparedness and toward mass deportation. A new exclusive from Reuters, “Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades...
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Washington, DC — A collection of new resources from America’s Voice underscores how this administration’s mass deportation obsession harms public safety – including diverting money and manpower away from disaster preparedness and active federal investigations and toward low-level immigration enforcement. New AV Fact Sheet: “Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Dragnet Is...
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The Trump administration is gutting real public safety efforts to fund their mass deportation agenda. Rather than focusing on drug traffickers, terrorist plots, and child predators endangering our communities, the administration is pulling federal agents off critical cases to chase longtime residents with clean records. From January to June...
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