New Legislation Offers a Common-Sense Way Forward to Reform Immigration Washington, DC – Today, America’s Voice endorsed U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-NV) Fairness for Immigrant Families Act that was re-introduced on Monday, which would give long-term undocumented immigrants with family ties and no criminal records a path to...
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Washington, DC – Today, the court-ordered reprieve that kept Temporary Protected Status in place for an estimated 350,000 Haitians expires, clearing the way for the administration to enforce the Supreme Court’s June 25 mandate. The D.C. Circuit temporarily blocked the administration’s attempt to strip status and work permits as...
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Washington, DC – A new Washington Examiner report reveals that current officers and retired senior officials say morale inside ICE has plummeted under the Trump administration. They described a workforce stretched beyond its limits by arrest quotas, mandatory overtime, and undertrained recruits rushed into the field without completed background...
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Washington, DC – A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from stripping tens of thousands of asylum seekers and Temporary Protected Status holders of their ability to work in the United States, halting a policy set to take effect as soon as Wednesday. U.S. District Judge...
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Washington, DC – This weekend, the New York Times reported that FBI field offices were quietly told the bureau will no longer investigate confrontations involving ICE agents, shifting that responsibility to Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of ICE itself. In other words, the agency responsible for these shootings will...
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Washington, D.C. — On Thursday, America’s Voice convened lawmakers, law enforcement leaders, and advocates to sound the alarm on the Trump-Miller administration’s deadly deportation machine, following the recent ICE killings in Houston and Biddeford, Maine. Speakers warned that federal agents, armed with billions in congressional funding and emboldened by...
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Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the first of two days of hearings on his confirmation to lead the Justice Department permanently. The hearing comes eight days after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston...
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Washington, DC – Following Monday’s deadly shooting in Maine, the latest reporting confirms that Johan Sebastián, a 25-years-old husband and father who was authorized to work in the United States, was killed by an ICE agent. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin first told Senator Angus King that...
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Washington, DC – Today, an ICE agent shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine. ICE and DHS have offered no explanation for why the agent opened fire. This marks the second time in six days that an ICE agent has killed someone in the United States. On July...
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Washington, DC – Earlier this week, an ICE agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as he drove to pick up his construction crew in Houston’s Magnolia Park. ICE claimed he rammed an agency vehicle and admitted he wasn’t even the man agents were looking for. In reporting out...
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