Washington, DC – The revelations out of Texas this week are horrific and sadly predictable. The radicalization of the Republican Party is essential context as this story develops. There is a throughline between Republicans mainstreaming white nationalism and a dehumanizing portrayal of immigrants and asylum seekers merely as threats...
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Washington, DC – Following the horrific revelations that Texas troopers were told to push children into the Rio Grande, state voices have been among the loudest critics to denounce the actions and put it into the larger important context: in a dehumanized immigration debate, the real lives and real...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: The Houston Chronicle reported, in an exclusive, that as part of an initiative by the Governor...
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Washington, DC – The horrific details in a story published last night by Ben Wermund of the Houston Chronicle, “Exclusive: Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say,” demand accountability and are the result of the continued dangerous dehumanization of immigrants, America’s...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “Is expanding healthcare for Dreamers supposed to entice more future immigrants to have been in the U.S. since 2007?” Washington, DC – This week, House Republicans are again holding multiple committee and subcommittee hearings on immigration and the border – part of their relentless barrage of anti-immigrant...
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AMERICANS CONTINUE TO SAY IMMIGRATION IS A GOOD THING FOR U.S. America’s Voice has tracked the Gallup poll’s findings on immigration issues for years and the latest edition this week showed that on the threshold question of whether immigration is a “good thing” for the nation, Americans firmly believe immigration is...
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Washington, DC – Attention on Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) and his defense of white nationalists should be viewed in a larger context of the Republican Party’s growing embrace and mainstreaming of white nationalist rhetoric, tactics, lies and conspiracies, America’s Voice said today. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of...
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Vanessa Cárdenas: “The American public is hungry for solutions and to fix our broken immigration system, recognizing rightly that immigration within a controlled and orderly system is good for America, our economy, and our future.” Washington, DC – New immigration polling from Gallup, the latest installment in their annual...
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NYT: ‘Immigration is integral to the nation’s economic growth’ and ‘it’s very hard to find an economist who doesn’t think that.’ Washington, DC – A new article in The New York Times, “As Politicians Cry ‘Crisis,’ Some Migrants Are Finding Their Way,” offers an important reminder that the short...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: During the intense debate generated by Title 42, its eventual cancellation, and all of the drama...
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