America’s Voice Frank Sharry: “Vote for Dreamers. Stand up for what’s right. Vote no on this spending bill.” Pew Research Report: ICE Arrests Up 30% Nationwide in FY 2017 A Former Mormon Missionary’s Fear of Losing DACA Dreamers Take to the Streets in Texas, Call Cornyn a “Dream Killer”...
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Congress is scheduled to vote on another funding deal this week, and Dreamers and advocates are back on Capitol Hill to demand that lawmakers oppose any deal that does not include the Dream Act. Since last September, when Donald Trump ended DACA, members of Congress have forced Dreamers into...
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The day after Trump said he was open to a path to citizenship for Dreamers, the Trump Administration proposed immigration legislation that asked Dreamers to make an unacceptable trade. In return for protections for immigrant youth, the Trump Administration is demanding drastic cuts to family-based migration and the cancellation...
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America’s Voice Frank Sharry: “La hora de la verdad está por llegar” PHOTOS: Dreamers Blitz House Offices Calling for Dream Act Frank Sharry: “A Moment of Truth is at Hand” Protection for Dreamers Must Be Included in Spending Caps Deal Op-Ed: Cancellation of TPS “Could Hit Health Care Hard”...
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America’s Voice ICYMI: Rep. Will Hurd Must Do More Than Simply Introduce Legislation, He Has to Work to Get It Passed Paula Span for New York Times: If Immigrants Are Pushed Out, Who Will Care for the Elderly? Will Mitch McConnell Keep His Word? Will McConnell Allow a Fair...
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America’s Voice Salvadoran TPS Holders Feel Heightened Sense of Anxiety as Deportation Looms Trump’s Rubber Stamp Deportations Outrage Americans in Kansas and Rural Washington State Feb. 5 – National Week of Action to Pass the Dream Act In Iowa and Across America, Public is Strongly Pro-Immigrant and Opposed to...
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This week’s edition of the America’s Voice podcast, “180 Days,” is now available. The weekly podcast covers what’s been happening in the weeks and months before 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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Last updated May 4, 2021. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is infamous within the immigration policy world for always talking a good game about passing immigration reform even though he has spent the last decade blocking any meaningful legislation. As the senior senator from a state with a large immigrant...
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America’s Voice The Latest Episode of Our Podcast, “State of the Union,” is Available Now Trump y la Caperucita Roja Policy Experts Decode White House Immigration Proposal ICYMI: Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio: “Save the Dreamers Before Tackling Immigration Reform” Immigration 101: Who is John Cornyn and What is the Cornyn...
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Donald Trump during his State of the Union address this week detailed an immigration proposal that is radical, racist, and un-American. As our Executive Director, Frank Sharry said, “the hardliners are high-fiving; the Statue of Liberty weeps.” Trump’s immigration plan is extreme because it: Is a radical and racist...
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