Washington, DC – The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Texas has started to separate families at the border over the past month: “Since the early days of Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative, state troopers arresting migrants along the Rio Grande have been told to keep families together and...
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New sign-on letter from more than 160 organizations calls on congressional leadership “to unequivocally denounce white supremacist, anti-immigrant rhetoric and its use by Members of Congress” — Read the new letter HERE Access an audio recording of today’s press call HERE Washington, DC — On a press call held...
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Washington, DC – Following the sentencing of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life shooter and ahead of tomorrow’s fourth anniversary of the anti-immigrant terrorist attack in El Paso, TX that killed 23 people on August 3, 2019, America’s Voice Executive Director Vanessa Cárdenas issued the following statement: “Instead of generating...
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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 lack of immigration reform at the legislative level limits the mechanisms through which people can...
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Washington, DC – Los Angeles Times columnist Jean Guerrero’s latest column, “Jose Cervantes left Delaware to see his dying father in Mexico. What happened changed his family’s fate,” is a powerful indictment of our broken immigration system, highlighting the tragedy of one family with ties to President Biden’s home...
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Washington, DC – Republicans’ extremism and dehumanizing and politically motivated cruelty on immigration has been on display in recent weeks. In response, a number of Democrats are pushing back, underscoring the way forward for Democrats to lean in on immigration issues. According to Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s...
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Washington, DC – The most notable component of yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, featuring the testimony of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, was not House Republicans’ predictable pre-baked attacks and falsehoods (many of which we previewed here). Instead, it was multiple House Democrats and Secretary Mayorkas highlighting the link between...
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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: This week marks contrasts in the U.S. Congress. While beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who...
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Washington, DC – One way of looking at the House Judiciary Committee hearing featuring the testimony of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is as a microcosm of ongoing relentless Republican politicized extremism on immigration. Today’s hearing – and its role in the GOP’s proposed sham impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas –...
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Washington, DC – The House Judiciary Committee has hauled the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, to testify – and they won’t be discussing the most pressing domestic threat to the nation’s security: white nationalist extremism. Instead of keeping America safe from real threats, the GOP-led...
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