Immigrants and advocates won a major victory in Texas last night, when US District Judge Orlando Garcia issued an injunction on the state’s new anti-immigrant law SB 4, just hours before the law was scheduled to take effect. “There is overwhelming evidence … that SB 4 will erode public...
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America’s Voice If Trump Ends DACA, Beware the Spin Americans Across the Spectrum Agree: Preserve DACA and Pass the Dream Act Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham Meets With New Mexico Immigrant Youth As Part of “Dreamer Dinners” Campaign Congressional Democrats Launch Tweetstorm In Support of DACA Amid Hurricane Harvey Devastation,...
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Dreamers and state legislators held yet another successful Dreamer Dinner tonight in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where immigrant youth shared their stories and spoke about the future of the DACA program they rely on. In attendance were Florida State Representatives Bobby Dubose, Patricia Williams, and Barrington Russell, all Democrats; as...
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Today, all of the House Judiciary Committee Democrats wrote a letter to committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) asking that he investigate Trump’s pardon of sheriff-turned-convicted-criminal Joe Arpaio. It is the fifth request that committee Democrats have sent to the Chairman relating to oversight of the Trump Administration. Trump pardoned Arpaio last...
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America’s Voice Texas Advocates Respond To Injunction Ruling on Majority of Discriminatory SB4 As CNC Exposes Extremist Groups Behind DACA Attack, Religious Leaders, Governors, Mayors, Editorial Boards, and Other Mainstream Americans Stand Up for DACA and Dreamers In Wake of White Supremacist Violence in Charlottesville & Imminent Threats to...
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The Denver City Council unanimously voted to a pro-immigrant bill that will boost public safety and protect immigrants from deportation when they haven’t done anything wrong. Mayor Michael Hancock is expected to sign the bill later this week. The bill will prohibit city and county employees from: Handing immigrants...
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At last night’s Dreamer Dinner in Orlando, state legislators and Dreamers spoke about the imminent threat to DACA at the federal level, as well as the ongoing need to win rights for immigrant youth at the state level. Four Florida legislators — state Senator Victor Torres, and state Reps....
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America’s Voice More Voices and Reminders that DACA and Dreamers Benefit America Slate of Florida State Legislators Meet With Immigrant Youth in Orlando Dreamer Dinner Denver City Council Unanimously Passes Law Protecting Immigrants Top News Washington Post Trump defends Arpaio pardon, assumed ‘ratings would be far higher’ by announcing...
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Last Thursday, Texas State Representative Ramon Romero, a Democrat from the Fort Worth area, sat down to talk about Dreamers and DACA in one of our latest Dreamer Dinners. Over enchiladas, Representative Romero and the Dreamers he sat down with spoke about the stories of Dreamers, the rumors of...
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Florida State Representatives Robert Asencio and Daisy Baez, both Democrats, sat down with nearly a dozen Dreamers last night in Miami in the latest Dreamer Dinner. Some of the Dreamers and DACA beneficiaries in attendance included Monica Lazaro, who studied chronic fatigue syndrome in college and now works in...
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