Last week, Donald Trump referred to immigrant as “animals”, a comment which has been criticized by a wide range of advocates and commentators for its dehumanization. While apologists have tried to parse what Trump actually meant by the comment, the scary fact is that the Trump Administration treats immigrants...
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America’s Voice 14 Times the Trump Administration Has Treated Immigrants Like “Animals” ICYMI: David Leopold: “Jeff Sessions Begins Phase Two of Trump’s Brutal War On Immigrants and Immigration” What Trump Has Unleashed: Border Patrol Agent Detains U.S. Citizens for Speaking Spanish in Montana Why Trump’s “Animals” Rhetoric Matters English...
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Cue the pomp and circumstance; the class of 2018 is graduating. While many graduates will take time off this summer and prepare for the next chapter of their lives, undocumented graduates must prepare for an uncertain future. Undocumented graduates are just some of the Dreamers across the country whom...
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Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign with an attack on Mexican immigrants and his anti-immigrant positions have become the centerpiece of his presidency. In 2017, Republican candidates for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia echoed Trump’s messages with a slew of ugly ads. Both lost. But, undaunted, many Republicans...
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In Michigan this week, dozens of advocates kicked off a 90-mile march from Detroit to Lansing to highlight Donald Trump’s mass-deportation policies — and draw attention to deportation cases like that of Ded Rranxburgaj, a local father who has been living with his wife in sanctuary for the last...
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Last fall, the California Values Act was signed into law, curtailing cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration officials and underscoring California’s role as a leader of the anti-Trump resistance. Studies have shown that jurisdictions with pro-immigrant policies are safer than those without them, and cities and states...
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America’s Voice Unlike GOP Leaders, Some Conservative Observers Speak Up and Condemn Trump’s Immigration Cruelty and Divisiveness More Evidence of Trump Administration Focus on Deporting Long-Settled, Hardworking Immigrants Michigan Advocates Kick Off 90-Mile March to Highlight Local Families Facing Deportation Advocates Defend California Values Act from Ugly, Out-of-State Hate...
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The latest episode of our podcast, “A is for America”, features an interview with Mustafa Nour, a Somalian-American entrepreneur who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and spoke with us about what it’s like to be a refugee in the Keystone State. Donald Trump said something dehumanizing about immigrants again this...
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America’s Voice After Trump’s Latest Dehumanizing Comments, Americans Are Ready for Common Decency and Common Sense By Blocking Dream Discharge Petition, Republican Leaders Choosing Party Over Country ICYMI: Splinter: “DHS Officials Sought Negative Information on Haitians Before Ending Vital Humanitarian Program” DHS Family Separation Policy Relies on a System that Separates...
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America’s Voice Incompetence and Cruelty: DHS Secretary Nielsen Tries to Defend the Indefensible Primary Voters Reject Pro-Trump Pennsylvania Democrat With A Track Record of Scapegoating Immigrants ICYMI: Héctor Figueroa, President of Local 32BJ SEIU, “Legal immigrants face loss of protection” Incompetencia y crueldad: la secretaria de Seguridad Nacional, Kirstjen...
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