A recording of the call is available here Earlier today, immigration justice advocates joined South Sudanese human rights activist Manyang Reath to discuss the urgent need for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to extend and redesignate South Sudan for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Experts made the argument that...
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The naturalization ceremony part of last night’s RNC was a deeply cynical event, featuring the most anti-immigrant president in history attempting to obscure and paper over his relentless animosity toward immigrants and both undocumented and so-called “legal” immigration. A range of observers weighed in to condemn the cynicism on...
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Continues Drive to End Popular Program and Put Dreamers on a Path to Deportation On Day One of its convention, the Republican Party portrayed itself as the “law and order” party. But as we have learned the hard way, it’s critical to watch what they do and not what...
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In a new analysis posted at Medium in advance of the Republican convention, Frank Sharry predicts: “This convention is going to be a tribute to Trump and the GOP’s embrace of white identity politics. It’s gonna be ugly.” Clearly, Trump and his enablers believe racism and xenophobia works. Stephen...
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Mary Trump: “…the separating of children from their parents; the torture, the kidnapping, and the incarceration of them in cages, was unthinkable, unbearable” One of the most morally abhorrent chapters in American history is the Trump administration’s policy to rip kids from their parents in hopes that the...
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Aug 21, 2020
Each Friday through Election Day, we disseminate this memo highlighting the key 2020 developments at the intersection of electoral politics and immigration Key Immigration Politics Stories Trump travels to Arizona to spew anti-immigrant venom like it’s 2016: Trump is the real radical. Democratic Convention displays a proudly pro-immigrant party: ...
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The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, in response to Steve Bannon and leaders of the ‘We Build the Wall’ fundraising campaign being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors in a multi-state criminal conspiracy. This is a story that captures the...
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The following is a statement from Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice, in response to President Trump’s speech in Yuma, Arizona today, in which he accused Joe Biden of being a radical on immigration. “The vast majority of Americans believe in a commonsense approach to immigration. It starts...
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Trump heads to Arizona; Schumer heads to New York harbor Today, Donald Trump heads to Arizona to hug his border wall. Tonight, Chuck Schumer delivers his convention speech in front of the Statue of Liberty. Trump will demonize immigrants, claim inaccurately that his wall saved us from the pandemic,...
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Americans are more concerned with the real threat of COVID-19 than the exaggerated threat of MS-13 As Trump plans yet another trip to Arizona to again highlight his radical immigration policies, a Reuters story from Ted Hesson and Chris Kahn explores the electoral dynamics of the immigration debate. Titled...
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