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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New sign-on letter from more than 160 organizations calls on congressional leadership “to unequivocally denounce white supremacist, anti-immigrant rhetoric and its use by Members of Congress” — Read the new letter HERE Access an audio recording of today’s press call HERE Washington, DC — On a press call held...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Una gran mayoría de estadounidenses quiere soluciones con visión de futuro en inmigración que sean consistentes con los valores nacionales que más nos honran” Washington, DC – Tras la sentencia a muerte del responsable de la matanza en la sinagoga Tree of Life en Pittsburgh en 2018,...
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Washington, DC – Following the sentencing of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooter and ahead of tomorrow’s fourth anniversary of the anti-immigrant terrorist attack in El Paso, TX that killed 23 people on August 3, 2019, America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas issued the following statement: “Instead of generating...
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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 lack of immigration reform at the legislative level limits the mechanisms through which people can...
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Washington, DC – Los Angeles Times columnist Jean Guerrero’s latest column, “Jose Cervantes left Delaware to see his dying father in Mexico. What happened changed his family’s fate,” is a powerful indictment of our broken immigration system, highlighting the tragedy of one family with ties to President Biden’s home...
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