On August 8, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a massive workplace raid across Minnesota and Nebraska and arrested 133 immigrant workers. ICE only had warrants for 17 immigrants; the rest were “collateral” arrests from the factories, farms, and restaurants ICE targeted. This raid is only the latest in...
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“Death penalty cases in a traffic court setting,” is how Dana Leigh Marks, emeritus President of National Association of Immigration Judges, once described immigration court, an assessment emphasizing the lack of justice that can be found in the immigration court system. The problems facing this court system are numerous...
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America’s Voice Legal Experts and Community Leaders Decry the Deportation of Mauritanians and the Arrest of Anti-Slavery Leader Biram Dah Abeid ‘Es difícil comprender la crueldad institucional” ICE Triples Arrests of Immigrants Without Criminal Records; Targets “Low Priority” Immigrants, Those on Verge of Getting Green Card “The Institutional Cruelty...
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A week after the polls have closed in the Kansas Republican primary for governor, the race is still too close to call. Currently, Secretary of State Kris Kobach leads Governor Jeff Colyer by only 110 votes. Deciding a definitive winner could still be weeks away with an estimated 10,000...
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America’s Voice Kris Kobach Sees Threats to Election Integrity Everywhere, but in the Kansas Primary the Biggest Threat Might be Himself Que la unidad también supere al racismo en las urnas The Trump Administration’s Family Separation Crisis Is Becoming a Liability for House Republicans TUES PRESS CALL to Decry...
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America’s Voice The Trump Administration Continues to Drag Its Feet and Makes Very Little Progress in Reuniting Separated Families WaPo: “Three reasons Trump’s new immigration rule should make your blood boil” On Family Separation, Administration Defies Court Orders and Lies, While Congressional Republicans Remain MIA La ‘carga pública’ del...
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*** * On this week’s episode of our podcast “A is for America”, we spoke with Zachary Mueller, our own resident Kris Kobach expert who joined us to talk about how Kansas’ Secretary of State may have just won a gubernatorial primary. (Interview begins at 14:15.) On the topic...
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Originally published August 9, 2018. Last updated June 7, 2023. What is Temporary Protected Status (TPS)? A quick overview: Passed by Congress into law under the administration of President George H.W. Bush in 1990, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) has been used to protect immigrants fleeing natural disasters, political...
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America’s Voice Frank Sharry to the U.S. Senate: Reject the Nomination of Ronald Vitiello to Head ICE Workplace Raids: The New Frontier for Family Separation Facing Judge Hanen, Dreamers Stand Strong ICYMI: Texas Attorney General Paxton Again Tries to Justify His Continued Attacks Against Young Immigrants WaPo: “The Trump...
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The ongoing failure of the Trump Administration to meet the court-imposed deadline to reunite all 3,000 children they forcibly separated at the border is just most current development in the Administration’s zero-tolerance policy. Let’s remember: the Trump Administration has been discussing separating child migrants from their parents since almost...
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