Washington, DC — A pastor and father of five deported. Empty church pews as parishioners fear ICE raids on holy ground. Dairy farm workers grabbed in Vermont. Mom-and-pop stores in Kansas face economic uncertainty. These are some of the examples of the high costs of the Trump/Miller mass deportation...
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Washington, DC — With renewed focus on how immigration tensions are roiling Republicans and how Democrats are repositioning themselves on immigration for the Trump era, a new America’s Voice memo, available in full online here, examines the American public’s updated views on immigration. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director...
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Washington, DC — In a new Washington Post op-ed, senior economic adviser to the 2020 Trump campaign Stephen Moore and economics professor Richard Vedder write, “Trump can’t achieve his economic goals without more immigrants,” implicitly criticizing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. A Politico article, “‘Essential isn’t a strong enough...
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Washington, DC — The Trump/Miller mass deportation agenda – and its embedded cruelties and chaos – is set to be turbocharged through the massive infusion of new money, thanks to the Republican big ugly bill that was signed into law on July 4. – Some $29.9 billion in enforcement...
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Washington, DC —Yesterday, the Trump administration announced the revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Honduras and Nicaragua. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, in reaction: “The Trump administration’s revocation of TPS for Honduras and Nicaragua will harm our economy and destabilize...
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Washington, DC — Following last week’s passage of the massive budget bill and its $150 billion-plus of new immigration enforcement money – which will turbo charge the administration’s mass deportation agenda – immigration, civil rights, and democracy groups were outspoken and consistent in their condemnation (see the statement from...
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Washington, DC — In a new Fourth of July op-ed for Salon, Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, and Héctor Sánchez Barba, President and CEO of Mi Familia Vota, call for a bold and honest reckoning with the right’s anti-immigrant narrative, and a reclaiming of the truth about...
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Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Joanna Kuebler, Chief of Programs at America’s Voice, reacting to the House of Representatives’ passage of the massive and destructive budget bill. “Americans are already recoiling against the harm done by this administration’s deportation agenda – the masked ICE agents...
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Washington, DC — In a busy news week, some may have missed the news that the Trump administration is planning a new and aggressive push to strip U.S. citizenship from some Americans. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “Ahead of July 4th, the Trump administration is...
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The Cost to American Economy, Due Process & Families is Sky High Washington, DC — Yesterday, we highlighted Vice President J.D. Vance’s admission that turbocharging mass deportations was his top legislative priority, with Vance noting ahead of the U.S. Senate vote that “Everything else – the CBO score, the...
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