Washington, DC – The Trump administration continues to expand its ruthless effort to expel immigrants, block refugees, and sow fear within immigrant communities. As our “At What Cost?” campaign highlights, all Americans will bear the cost of Trump and Republicans’ chaotic and cruel immigration agenda, as it tears apart... Continue »
Washington, DC — As America’s Voice has been highlighting in our “At What Cost?” campaign, all Americans will pay a high price because of Trump and Republicans’ chaotic and cruel immigration agenda and mass deportation obsessions. Two fresh reminders are evident in reports from recent days: Reuters: “Thousands of... Continue »
Washington, DC — As Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice stated earlier this week, “The Trump administration’s obsessive focus on immigration and related scapegoating and scare tactics are a way to justify a more sweeping set of power grabs and crackdowns that threaten Americans’ rights and liberties and... Continue »
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: The terror and dislocation of the Donald Trump administration’s raids and deportations also affect the immigrant community in Puerto... Continue »
Washington, DC – The Trump administration continues to escalate its ruthless effort to expel immigrants, block refugees, and sow fear within the immigrant community. As our “At What Cost?” campaign highlights, all Americans will pay a high price because of Trump and Republicans’ chaotic and cruel immigration agenda and... Continue »
Washington, DC — As legal observers have been highlighting, there’s a brewing constitutional crisis over the Trump administration seemingly ignoring a federal judge’s court order to pause deportation flights. The administration’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 and subsequent actions are the latest reminder of how this... Continue »
Washington, DC —In a chilling escalation, it appears the Trump administration has begun executing deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority never before used in this manner. This ruthless move is both unlawful and a dangerous expansion of executive power.  Early this morning, the ACLU... Continue »
Washington, DC — On a virtual event held today (recording available here), leading legal experts and advocates gathered  to assess the details and implications of several key immigration storylines, including the Mahmoud Khalil case and the chilling larger implications for weaponizing immigration law to quash free speech; the latest... Continue »
Washington, DC —This week alone, by using new levers of state power and old, inapplicable statutes, the Trump administration has: Initiated deportation proceedings against a green card holder for protesting on a college campus – a clear attempt to weaponize immigration law to chill political dissent and free speech... Continue »
Washington, DC – The arrest and detention of Columbia University Palestinian activist and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil raises several troubling, larger implications. As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the Trump administration’s effort to deport Khalil rests solely on a determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio – “immigration... Continue »