Sep 16, 2024
Washington, DC — In a remarkable set of interviews over the weekend, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) admitted that his Party and campaign “created” stories about immigrants stealing and eating family pets as a way of getting the news media to focus on immigrants. “If I have to create stories...
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HARRIS SOARS AT PHILLY DEBATE, TRUMP DEPLOYS OLD AND NEW LIES DENIGRATING IMMIGRANTS It seems like months ago, but the big Harris-Trump debate happened just last Tuesday. The nearly universal assessment was that Trump hurt himself and Vice President Harris masterfully helped him do so and as many people...
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Washington, DC — The Haitian-American community in Springfield, OH and around the country is feeling targeted and unsafe because dehumanizing, debunked and racist conspiracies are being advanced at the highest levels of American politics and are still being repeated. The false claim that Black immigrants are violently attacking...
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Washington, DC — The reports of threats of violence and harassment after bigoted conspiracies spread online about the Haitian community in Ohio, are tragically predictable. When political leaders spread dehumanizing conspiracy theories about a group, they create the climate for political violence against that community. Public officials and leaders...
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Access recording of today’s virtual briefing HERE Read new AV report on volume and efficacy on anti-immigrant disinformation in ‘24 campaign HERE Washington, DC — On a virtual press briefing held today, leading experts assessed key storylines about immigration and the elections, including the costs of Trump’s proposed mass...
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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: An erratic Donald Trump offered one of the worst spectacles of his political career in the debate with Democratic...
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Sep 10, 2024
Washington, DC — We expect immigration to be a major component of tonight’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Below are three key questions followed by related context and resources. What are the specific details of Trump’s plan for the “bloody” and unsparing mass deportation of millions? ...
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Washington, DC —At a Wisconsin rally this weekend, Donald Trump said regarding his unsparing mass deportation plans: “getting them out will be a bloody story.” Later, in an unhinged post on Truth Social, Trump went into explicit detail on his plans for those who he views as political enemies,...
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Washington, DC — Earlier this week, we highlighted the excellent Boston Globe op-ed from leading expert Michael Ettlinger, “Trump’s plan to vaporize the economy,” which analyzed prior U.S. efforts to deport people in great numbers and the harmful economic consequences for the overall U.S. economy, native workers and immigrants...
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Washington, DC — A major story in the New York Times on the Republican and right-wing push to advance lies and conspiracies about noncitizen immigrants allegedly voting, excerpted below, spotlights the significant effort the GOP has put behind this lie and the anti-democratic motivation behind the GOP push. As...
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