Since Trump’s last State of the Union address, his anti-immigrant, mass deportation operation has unleashed widespread violence, shredded constitutional protections, torn families apart, and diverted critical resources from public safety. ICE has become a militarized force operating in the shadows—without accountability, targeting children and families, and draining billions from...
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Washington, DC — Ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union address, America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas writes in a new Substack post “The State of the Immigration Debate Ahead of the State of the Union Address,” that the immigration debate has shifted over the past year as...
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The Trump administration is choosing mass deportation over American families. While ICE’s budget has exploded to a record $85 billion—making it the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency—the administration is simultaneously gutting healthcare, food assistance, and community services that millions of Americans depend on. The math is clear: Money that...
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Washington, DC — Today, America’s Voice convened elected leaders, a leading pollster, and policy experts ahead of next week’s State of the Union address to discuss the mounting harms and growing unpopularity of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Speakers discussed the consequences for communities, the economy, children and families,...
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Washington, DC — Recent days have highlighted in disturbing detail how Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation and mass detention agenda inflicts outsized harm and cruelty on children, mothers, and families. From relentlessly targeting five year old Liam Ramos to deporting two-month old Juan Nicolás hours after being...
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Washington, DC — Americans are witnessing Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s mass deportation and anti-immigrant agenda in action and are recoiling from the lies, the violence, and the cruelty. Republicans are on the wrong side of the American people on the DHS shutdown, as their resistance to reforms and...
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Feb 13, 2026
Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, ahead of the anticipated Department of Homeland Security shutdown: “On the eve of President’s Day weekend and the likely shutdown of DHS, President Trump, de facto President Stephen Miller, and their allies in...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Without uttering the words “ICE Out” in his Super Bowl 60 performance, it was clear that Benito Antonio Martínez...
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Washington, DC — One of many cruelties and harms of mass deportation and anti-immigrant agenda is the lasting harm to children, as recent days’ media coverage continues to reveal. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “Just like he did during his first Administration, Trump is going...
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Washington, DC — This week, America’s Voice relaunched its Substack under a new name and framework: Charting a New Narrative on Immigration, reflecting a renewed commitment to facts, credibility, and values-driven storytelling at a pivotal moment for immigrant communities and the country as a whole. The rebrand comes at...
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