America’s Voice The Cruelty of Trump’s DHS Towards 10-Year Old Rosa Maria Hernandez Is Not an Isolated Incident ICYMI: Over 300,000 Honduran, Nicaraguan, Haitian, and Salvadoran immigrants await a mass deportation decision on Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ICYMI: “Under Trump, fighting for disability rights means fighting for immigration rights”...
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Oct 28, 2017
Two white nationalist rallies took place in Tennessee on Saturday, October 28: one in Shelbyville and another in Murfreesboro, USA Today reports. They were protesting the presence of immigrants from Somalia, Sudan, and other parts of the world. Some cited a shooting that took place in a Nashville church on September 24, whose suspect...
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This week’s edition of the America’s Voice podcast, “180 Days,” is now available. The weekly podcast will run over the next six months as we approach the March 6, 2018 deadline for DACA. We cover the fight to protect Dreamers and pass the Dream Act – and other immigration...
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For evidence of the toxic influence that Donald Trump (and Republicans who are willing to abide by him) have had on the national discourse, look no further than this year’s two gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. In Virginia, Republican Ed Gillespie has made national news for race-baiting,...
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This week, advocates launched a week of action for temporary protected status (TPS), the designation which protects hundreds of thousands of immigrants from being deported to countries afflicted by natural disasters, war, or other dangerous conditions. The deadlines to extend TPS for Hondurans, Nicaraguans, Haitians, and Salvadorans are approaching...
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America’s Voice A New, Loathsome Low: Trump Administration Detains a 10-Year Old Disabled Girl and Separates Her From Her Mother CHIRLA, UWD, NextGen America, Center for Community Change, MoveOn.org & Indivisible Discuss Their Fight for a Clean Dream Act & Dangers Faced by Activists in Light of Yesterday’s Attack...
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Two Goshen men accused of targeting a black neighbor have been charged with hate crimes, District Attorney Tim Ward announced Wednesday. The charges follow a stabbing Sunday in Goshen that left a man in critical condition in Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center. The man, whose name wasn’t released, is...
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Sophomore Logann Pruneda is speaking out after she says she was attacked on campus at Bullard High school for being gay. Her parent allowed the 16-year-old to sit down with us for an interview. She says a group of students pelted her with juice boxes and shouted homophobic slurs...
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Police charged a Delaware man with a hate crime after he allegedly told authorities he was considering throwing Molotov cocktails at the home of neighbors he believed were Muslim. The News Journal in Wilmington reports Gerard Medvec, 64, of Delaware City, had been spying on his neighbors with binoculars...
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A south suburban woman whose racially charged rant at a black couple last fall earned her viral infamy and hate crime charges, will spend at least a few weeks in jail. Jessica Sanders, of Alsip, was eventually acquitted of two felony hate crime counts and an aggravated battery charge,...
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