Yesterday, immigration experts and advocates held a briefing to urge the incoming 116th Congress to prioritize permanent legislative action for Dreamers and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) holders. Time is running out for these communities, including thousands of families who are facing an uncertain future...
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America’s Voice Kevin McCarthy Pushed Trump’s Anti-immigrant Agenda and Lost Half of California’s Republican House Seats ICYMI: Reminders that Trump Created the Humanitarian Crisis at the Border & His Hardline Immigration Solutions Don’t & Won’t Work ICYMI: “The US doesn’t have to choose between protecting the border and treating...
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USCIS Adopted an Untested, Legally Problematic, Less Effective Process to Extend Work Permits Today, 70 law professors and scholars delivered a letter to Secretary of U.S Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen and Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) L. Francis Cissna outlining the legal issues with the administration’s...
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Over Thanksgiving weekend, 60 Minutes aired a searing report on Donald Trump’s family separation policy, which has separated thousands of children from their families and is still ongoing. Entitled “The chaos behind Donald Trump’s policy of family separation at the border”, the segment found that the Administration lied about...
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Voters Roundly Defeated Trump’s 2018 Xenophobia; Congress Should Too The following is a statement from Matt Hildreth, Political Director of America’s Voice: Donald Trump’s closing argument in the 2018 midterms was all about immigrant fear-mongering, ugly exploitation of racial grievance, and hysteria over the caravan of Central Americans fleeing...
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America’s Voice 60 Minutes Report Recaps Horrifying Details of Trump’s Family Separation Policy Trump Still Believes a Wasteful Border Wall Is Good Politics English La Opinión Número de inmigrantes indocumentados en nivel más bajo desde 2004, dice informe Pew By María Peña November 27, 2018 Associated Press Report: Number...
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Over Thanksgiving weekend In Durham, North Carolina, two dozen members of CityWell United Methodist Church were arrested after attempting to prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from detaining Samuel Oliver-Bruno, who had taken sanctuary in the church eleven months earlier. Oliver-Bruno, a 47-year-old father whose 19-year-old son, Daniel,...
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A Positive Way Forward Exists, Yet Trump Has Dismantled the Current System Since the beginning of the Trump presidency, Trump and his administration have tried multiple cruel and hard-line approaches to addressing the challenge of Central American migration. The Trump administration has cruelly separated families, is doing everything it...
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Trump’s Election Mode of Divide and Distract Continues Unabated The chaos we are witnessing at the border is directly attributable to the choices of the Trump White House to dismantle proven approaches and processes and to stoke fears and escalate a crisis. While Trump and company may view the...
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America’s Voice ICE Arrests North Carolina Man Who Had Been in Sanctuary; 27 Faith Allies Arrested During Protest Instead of an Effective, Safe and Humane Solution to the Caravan, Trump Has Created Chaos Five Ways President Trump Manufactured the Chaos and Crisis at the Border Caravana entre dos fuegos:...
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