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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Washington, DC – Important pushback and denunciation continues after last week’s revelations of horrific and dehumanizing cruelty by Texas troopers against vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director at America’s Voice: “The dehumanizing and wasteful immigration efforts of Gov. Greg Abbott and too many of...
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Washington, DC – A new column by Ron Brownstein in The Atlantic focuses on the horrific details regarding Texas state troopers’ treatment of vulnerable children and pregnant women and the larger significance and pattern of Republican controlled states like Texas trying to seize immigration policymaking from the federal government....
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Washington, DC – The revelations out of Texas this week are horrific and sadly predictable. The radicalization of the Republican Party is essential context as this story develops. There is a throughline between Republicans mainstreaming white nationalism and a dehumanizing portrayal of immigrants and asylum seekers merely as threats...
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Washington, DC – Following the horrific revelations that Texas troopers were told to push children into the Rio Grande, state voices have been among the loudest critics to denounce the actions and put it into the larger important context: in a dehumanized immigration debate, the real lives and real...
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