Washington, DC — The scope, harm, and indiscriminate assault of the Trump administration’s deportation agenda are coming into sharper relief. From ongoing reports of those actually detained in local ICE raids to indications about the growing fears and harms spreading throughout broader communities, the Trump agenda already is causing...
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Washington, DC — An ICE raid on a Newark, NJ restaurant yesterday that led to the detention of a U.S. military veteran and U.S. citizen was a troubling snapshot of the types of indiscriminate enforcement we fear the Trump administration is seeking to turbocharge. As Newark Mayor Ras Baraka...
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Washington, DC — On a virtual press event held today, leading experts on immigration and refugee policy and law gathered to discuss the details, implications, and scope of the harmful array of newly signed executive orders and announcements in the first week of the Trump administration. Today’s event was...
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Jan 23, 2025
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 swearing in of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States was a Category 5...
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Washington, DC — Using his nativist lies of “invasion” as justification for his extreme policies, Trump announced today that he is deploying troops to the border. Yet, just yesterday, during a service at the National Cathedral, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Edgar Budde, issued a direct plea to...
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WASHINGTON — Today, leaders from The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, UnidosUS, The National Partnership for New Americans, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee Rights, Mí Familia Vota, and America’s Voice held a press call reacting to President Trump’s executive actions targeting immigrants—including EOs declaring a...
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Washington, DC — The Trump team’s array of Day One announcements on immigration and the border are sweeping in scope and by design, part of a purposeful “shock and awful” effort that aims to overwhelm potential opposition by sheer volume. While we join policy and legal experts in poring...
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Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the Trump inauguration speech and the array of promised immigration and border executive orders to be issued. To connect with Vanessa Cárdenas or some of the nation’s leading experts on the...
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Jan 18, 2025
The first weeks of the new Trump administration are set to bring an unprecedented wave of intense, cruel, and chaotic shifts in immigration policy. This pivotal moment will demand press coverage that is informed, factual, and balanced. To ensure audiences understand the profound impacts of Trump’s policies, media outlets...
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Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, assessing the current moment on immigration in light of the Laken Riley Act debate and ahead of Donald Trump’s coming inauguration: “The process displayed by Democrats during the Laken Riley Act legislative debate...
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