Working Families United, the AFL-CIO and 30+ Nat’l Labor Institutions Send Letter to Congress to Pass Permanent Protections, Put TPS Holders and Dreamers on Path to Citizenship Today Working Families United, the AFL-CIO, and more than 30 national unions and labor institutions sent a letter to Congress expressing their broad support...
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The startling revelations of the administration’s senseless attacks on families continue this week with reports that over nine infants under one year old are being kept at the Dilley detention center in Texas without the appropriate resources or care; that a woman gave birth to a stillborn baby while...
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By Maribel Hastings and David Torres It’s possible the testimony of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, before a congressional panel will not change many people’s positions. Those who already think, as Cohen put it, that Trump is a “racist, a conman, and a cheat” will continue thinking so;...
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This week and last, revelations shed additional light on the Trump administration’s cruelty, incompetence and cover up with regards to its immigrant family separation policy. Details in oversight hearings point to official deception that hides the destructive policies of the Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies —...
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Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee held an oversight hearing on Trump’s family separation policy with key government witnesses from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Border Patrol, Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR), and Health and Human Services (HHS). Despite serious and lasting harm in separating children, key officials admitted...
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WASHINGTON, DC – While in Hollywood the Oscars seemed to be taking baby steps to try to celebrate the diversity of this country and the world, here in Washington–aka “Hollywood for ugly people”–all attention is on the wall that our president insists on building along the border with Mexico,...
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Yesterday’s House vote in favor of a resolution blocking President Trump’s unconstitutional, unpopular, and entirely fake national emergency was a sharp rebuke to Trump that sets up the resolution for Senate passage and amps up pressure on Senate Republicans to do the right thing. As America’s Voice Deputy Director...
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As Michael Cohen testifies today and lawmakers focus on the Trump family criminality, the ongoing Trump Organization multi-state criminal enterprise that involves the hiring, manipulation, abuse and exploitation of undocumented workers should be addressed. It is a crime occurring right before our eyes and as Mr. Cohen speaks to...
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The following is a statement from Pili Tobar, Deputy Director of America’s Voice, regarding the passage of the House Resolution to terminate Trump’s “national emergency” declaration on the border. The House today delivered a sharp rebuke to President Trump’s unconstitutional, unpopular, and entirely fake national emergency. The strong vote...
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Trump’s Unpopular Border Wall Not Only A Detriment to Environment, It Exploits Texas Communities’ Property Rights Representative Filemon Vela (TX-34) has a new op-ed in the Corpus Christi Caller calling out the Trump administration’s use of eminent domain in its attempts to build a monument to intolerance and xenophobia...
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