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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U.S. citizenship will be no guarantee of protection for many people of color if indicted former President Donald Trump and white nationalist aide Stephen Miller return to the White House in January 2025 to carry out their mass-purging of millions of workers and families from their homes, jobs, and...
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Dec 27, 2017
This year marked the beginning of the Trump presidency, and while the new Administration spent much of the year stymied by legislative priorities, Donald Trump has been able to remake the US immigration system in alarming and destructive ways. In his first year alone, between mass deporting immigrant mothers...
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A recording of today’s call is available here With litigation challenging President Trump’s Muslim and refugee ban and Trump’s Deportation Force fanning out across the country, America’s Voice Education Fund resumed its weekly “Office Hours” press briefing today. A recording of today’s call is available here. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of...
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Leading Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump — who is also currently the nation’s leading anti-immigrant voice — will visit the U.S./Mexico border and meet with Border Patrol agents tomorrow, several have news outlets confirmed. “I’ve been invited by border patrols and they want to honor me, actually, and thousands...
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