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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Washington, DC – Republicans’ extremism and dehumanizing and politically motivated cruelty on immigration has been on display in recent weeks. In response, a number of Democrats are pushing back, underscoring the way forward for Democrats to lean in on immigration issues. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s...
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Washington, DC – The most notable component of yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, featuring the testimony of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, was not House Republicans’ predictable pre-baked attacks and falsehoods (many of which we previewed here). Instead, it was multiple House Democrats and Secretary Mayorkas highlighting the link between...
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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: This week marks contrasts in the U.S. Congress. While beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who...
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Washington, DC – One way of looking at the House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring the testimony of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is as a microcosm of ongoing relentless Republican politicized extremism on immigration. Today’s hearing – and its role in the GOP’s proposed sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas –...
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Washington, DC – The House Judiciary Committee has hauled the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, to testify – and they won’t be discussing the most pressing domestic threat to the nation’s security: white nationalist extremism. Instead of keeping America safe from real threats, the GOP-led...
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Washington, DC – El juez federal Jon S. Tigar ordenó hoy bloquear la política de asilo de la administración Biden. En su fallo, el juez ratificó el derecho de solicitar asilo y escribió: “Justificar la limitación de elegibilidad para el asilo con base en la expansión de otros medios...
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Washington, DC – Today, federal Judge Jon S. Tigar enjoined the Biden administration’s asylum ban. In his ruling, Judge Tigar affirmed the right to apply for asylum and wrote, “To justify limiting eligibility for asylum based on the expansion of other means of entry or protection is to consider...
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Washington, DC – On Wednesday, the House Majority is calling Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, before the House Judiciary Committee. The hearing has little to do with congressional oversight. Instead, it is a stage for the latest in a long series of Republican pre-baked political...
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Washington, DC – A new op-ed published by America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas at Common Dreams, titled “The Dehumanizing Cruelty at the Texas Border Is Part of a Larger GOP Pattern,” notes that, “While investigations should proceed to ensure accountability for those responsible for the horrors near the...
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